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State of the Gryph Streams

Posted by Gryph on October 3, 2023
Posted in: Blog News, Gryph Streams, Life Stuff, Livestreams. Tagged: animal shelter, cats, Good Omens. Leave a comment
Lovely brown and white tabby sits on top of her bed, looking at the camera.
This gorgeous cat spent a couple weeks hiding under her bed, I’m so happy she’s been coming out to say hi!

Thought I’d do a blanket update since I’ve been mostly absent from streaming lately, and not all that active on social media either. Definitely have not been able to keep up with this blog! The TL;DR version is my streaming schedule will be exceptionally fluid for the foreseeable future.

Also, I’ll try to get that stream of Wylde Flowers up on Youtube soon, I know I’m behind on that.

For those who don’t know, work at the shelter is a LOT right now. More than usual, I mean. The bosses keep talking about “unprecedented” intake numbers and stay lengths. Coworkers who have been there for years are saying they have never seen it like this. It’s that way across the entire US, and especially in the South. Many shelters (not mine, thankfully) have had to revert to euthanizing for space in an attempt to keep up.

We’ve had a few spurts like this over the last year, but I think most of us were hoping it’d settle into something more “normal.” And I mean. It hasn’t. There’s a lot of theories as to why, many of them related to the pandemic, but the point is things are the way they are and this is the reality we are living in right now.

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#Blaugust 2023 Wrap Up (#31/31) and some sad news about my gerbils

Posted by Gryph on August 31, 2023
Posted in: Blog News, Communities, Creating, Life Stuff, Writing. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, pet tax. 3 Comments
A brown gerbil sleeps curled over the back of a black gerbil.

Before I launch into a farewell to this year’s Blaugust, I have a more personal farewell to make. Around 5:30 this morning, one of my gerbils (Meg, the brown one) passed away. 

Her sister Progo is doing alright so far, but I’m unsure how she’ll do going forward. She was never as social as Meg, but she was very close to her sister. Introducing a new gerbil is dicey in the best of situations, and I don’t think she’d appreciate it if I tried. I’ll just have to try to spend as much extra time with her as she allows

Meg had been off for a few days and I thought it was coming soon, so I wasn’t entirely surprised at least. She and her sister were/are between 3-4 years old, pretty senior for gerbils. It’s still always sad they can’t stay with us as long as we would like, and I was up late with her once I realized she was likely on her way out.

So, forgive me if this post isn’t my best work. I’m very tired, and while I’m not an entire mess about it, my mind isn’t really on blogging at the moment.

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#Blaugust 2023 Blaugchievement List (#30)

Posted by Gryph on August 30, 2023
Posted in: Blog News, Communities, Creating, Writing. Tagged: #Blaugust2023. Leave a comment
Blaugchievement image: Going Platinum

We’re getting near the end of this year’s Blaugust, and I thought I’d see how I did on the Blaugchievements. I started out motivated to 100% them, then basically forgot they existed for most of the month. (Thank you, ADHD Brain!)

The rain’s coming in where I live, but hopefully nothing falls apart too badly before I get this one out!

Between the one week I actually remembered, and just participating in general, let’s see how I did.

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Another Messy Week For Streaming (#Blaugust 2023 #29)

Posted by Gryph on August 29, 2023
Posted in: Gryph is Playing, Gryph Streams, Life Stuff, Livestreams. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Good Omens, music, pet tax, World End Diner. 8 Comments
Map of Tropical Storm warning in South Carolina

Welp, not the blog post I was planning on for today. But I did want to apologize that this might be the second week in a row I’m not able to stream.

Return of Life Stuff! We’ve got an incoming tropical storm to prep for and I’m going to be working an extra half day to cover a short shift at work. Depending on the weather I might be able to stream Thursday? My days off this week are kinda gonna be dictated by what the weather decides to do, as well as if we lose power/internet or not. I’m trying to run my errands and such before the rain and wind pick up – of course, so is everyone else. So that’s always fun.

I’m also allergic to tropical storms. Well, not really. But I learned when I moved to a place that sits at sea level and is prone to wild barometric changes, that my sinuses are very sensitive to that sort of thing. :/ They’re already bugging me, and there’s a good chance I’ll be fighting a migraine at some point in the next couple days.

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Happy One Month Hyperfixation Anniversary! | In Which A Very Tired Me Babbles About Good Omens Again (#Blaugust 2023 #28)

Posted by Gryph on August 28, 2023
Posted in: ADHD, TV. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, ADHD, books, Good Omens, pet tax. Leave a comment
Screenshot of multiple monitors. Upper left is a porch with cat toys, lower left is the game World End Diner, lower right is the movie Good Omens 2. Upper right is blank, I only have 3 monitors.
Good Omens has basically lived on that monitor for a month now.

It’s been a month since Good Omens Season 2 released, and the hyper is still fixating over in my little world.

I had intended today’s post to be another light essay on how hyperfixation works in my life, and possibly trying to pull together some of the fun bits of knowledge I’ve acquired through living on the Good Omens tags for a month straight. Neil Gaiman has been his incredibly patient self and answered so many fan questions, it’s really been a treat to keep up with his tumblr. He’s got a Good Omens Season 2 FAQ post that a fan put together pinned over there as well, which is pretty cool.

Anyway, that was the plan. The reality is I just got home from work, where I was fighting a sinus headache all day with limited success. Lack of sleep (unrelated to the hyperfixation, I’ve just had a lot of Life Stuff the last two weeks)  is finally catching up to me as well. 

My brain lost the word for “coccidia” this morning while discussing some kittens in our care, and I stammered, “Cocci…cocci…cocci…I know I’m saying this wrong…” with what I’m sure was a rather confused look on my face until one of my coworkers thankfully rescued me by asking if I was trying to say, “coccidia.”

So I mean, I’m still doing a Good Omens post. I just don’t think it will be as clever or put together as I wanted it to be.

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#Blaugust2023 #27 En Español, Por Favor

Posted by Gryph on August 27, 2023
Posted in: Life Stuff, Writing. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, animal shelter, Español. 1 Comment
Duolingo: "Tu gato te necesita porque tiene mucha hambre." Un gato de dibujos animados señala un plato de comida vacío y su boca.

Hoy estoy intentando escribir una entrada de blog en español. Ahora solo hablo un poco de español, pero hablé español en la secundaria – hace más de veinte años.

Empecé a aprender español nuevamente hace unos 3 años. Hay mucha gente que habla español en mi ciudad. Quiero hablar mejor español para poder ayudarlos más en el trabajo. Odio intentar ayudar a alguien con su mascota y no poder hablar su idioma.

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#Blaugust 2023 #26 – Adoption event extended until tomorrow!

Posted by Gryph on August 26, 2023
Posted in: Animal Stories. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, animal shelter, cats, dogs. Leave a comment
Ear tipped brown tabby with bright green eyes looks up at me.
Calvin, one of our regular TVAR cats at home, greets me after work. 🙂

Today’s Clear The Shelter event was every bit as busy as expected, and they’ve decided to extend it until tomorrow. This is great news for the animals waiting for good homes! I haven’t heard the final numbers yet, but we were at 85 animals adopted near the end of the day. I know our goal was 100 animals, so I’m curious to see how close we got today and where we end up after tomorrow!

That is not great news for today’s blog entry as I’m pretty wiped and also pretty work- focused. But it does mean more animal pics, so it’s a win on that level. 🙂

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#Blaugust 2023 #25 – The cat pic update.

Posted by Gryph on August 25, 2023
Posted in: Animal Stories. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, animal shelter, cats. Leave a comment
Two brown DSH tabby kittens look out from a carrier.
Two little foster kittens returning to the shelter for the event tomorrow. There’s actually a third kitten, all black, hiding in the back who didn’t make it into the shot.

We have a massive Clear The Shelter event going on at work tomorrow, and I need to make sure I get as much sleep as possible tonight. It’s going to be loud, and crowded, and stressful – if I’m not well rested there’s an excellent chance I’ll get overwhelmed and overstimulated.

With that, I absolutely am gonna pull a freebie Blaugust post for tonight, and share some cat pics from work. 🙂

Wish us luck! The shelters in South Carolina – and in many other places in the US – have been filled to over capacity for some time now. It’s especially bad for dogs at the moment, with so many shelters so full that our normal evacuation plans in the event of a hurricane aren’t going to be feasible this year unless something changes. Hopefully we can get many great animals into new homes over the weekend. ❤

Please consider supporting your local shelter, spay and neuter initiatives, and TNR programs in any way you can. If you’re not sure how to help, contact the shelter and ask!

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#Blaugust 2023 24/31 and counting!

Posted by Gryph on August 24, 2023
Posted in: Blog News, Writing. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, food, pet tax. 2 Comments
Black and white cat is stretched out, but looking at the camera with curiosity.

We’re coming into the last week of Blaugust, and there’s been some chatting in the Discord about what comes next. Do we plan to stick with daily blogging, do we pick a different schedule?

I joined Blaugust 2023 in part just because Belghast is awesome and it’s been a while since I did one of these. 🙂 

Also because “Update Blog” had been on my To-Do list for months, ever since I let my WordPress sub lapse and couldn’t decide if I wanted to start it up again. (Plus realizing I still had links to Vine and Google+ on my socials widget…) I stared at that bullet point every weekend, and then said, “Eh, I’ll get to it next weekend.” Joining Blaugust helped my timesense deficient brain move the task from “not now” to “now.”

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Gryph is Playing World End Diner | Hidden Gem | (#Blaugust 2023 #23)

Posted by Gryph on August 23, 2023
Posted in: Animal Games, Gryph is Playing, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Animal Games, cozy games, early access, hidden gem, simulator, Steam, World End Diner. Leave a comment
World End Diner title screen. Various forest animals are in a clearing, surrounding what appears to be a broken robot. The game is 2D pixel art in design.

My weekend has gotten away from me due to pets and extra errands, but in trying to find something relaxing to do between tasks I stumbled onto a game that is absolutely my jam. I’d never heard of it, but it came up a couple times on random Reddit threads while I was googling “cozy cooking games,” and I was intrigued enough to check it out.

In World End Diner, you are a robot who is cooking for forest animals and fellow robots. I don’t know yet why the world ended, or how, or why I’m cooking for rabbits and otters and robots. I also don’t really care because this is the cozy cooking simulator I didn’t know I was looking for.

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