July 3rd, 2026

Lost power for the second time this year today, thanks to fucking 80 MPH winds. The stove was rewired last time so it actually has power at least, but it also means that there's no window AC upstairs. All I have for cooling is the fan in my room and the house AC, which does work but upstairs still gets pretty hot even with it. Hopefully power comes back relatively soon.

I had the day off today, and I used that day to finish Metroid Prime. I missed at least one scan (stalactites) but otherwise I got 100%. Game is fun but oh my god the process of backtracking is just tedious a lot of the time. Despite that, I don't really mind the scavenger hunt aspect of the artifacts, but I just hate going through Magmoor Caverns all the damn time. The game wants to be interconnected, but instead it just has a damn hallway it forces you to go down whenever you try to get anywhere. At least I only really had to look up one item (the missile pack in watery hall, which I think you would literally never find unless you got help or you were that desperate to randomly jump in the water), everything else I found pretty naturally by just remembering something from earlier or stumbling around. The "item near" sound effect is gonna haunt my dreams forever.