Home today but a lot of good stuff. Woke up a little early around 7:45 but lamped in bed until 8:15, got ready, made some oatmeal with doenjang, topped with plenty of kimchi, finished breakfast around 10:30. New 3DS XL arrived around 11 and I immediately got to researching how to homebrew. This thing is big and very comfortable and a deep blue. And Japanese, in the UI -- it was the LL model released in Japan, not North America. Felt a lot more premium than my OG 3DS. I needed a microSD card and my brother had bugged me around 11:20 to get some lunch so I decided to hit 2 birds with 1 stone and stop by Best Buy to get a microSD card, and pick up some lunch in the area. I got the microSD card first and went out, but Seth didn't really resonate with the restaurants nearby so we decided to head back to our neighborhood area to get some Mexican food. He got a California burrito, I got a couple soft tacos with beef and all the toppings. Headed back home and I chowed down over a couple episodes of Friends. Rachel is my favorite, so far. The tacos were phenomenal -- beef was seasoned down to the cells, and the onions and green salsa gave a much appreciated zippy brightness. After that I made some iced oatmilk coffee, AeroPress, minimal scoop (11g!!) of beans, which I neglected on my desk for a hot minute as I unscrewed the backplate off the back of my 3DS XL to get access to the microSD slot and Homebrew the little bugger. I'm so glad I kept the backplate off because the amount of times I put in and took out the teeny tiny card between my XL and my computer, I'd need three hands to count. Brutal. But not as brutal as realizing even with the region change from Japan to U.S., (another 30 minutes on top of the original Homebrew process) I couldn't do a system transfer, at least not as easily as I thought. With the eShop self-locked from the region change, I needed to visit the Homebrew Discord and request for a SOAP transfer. I'll tell you, waiting between 5:30 and 11:30 for a second response after I botched my first response by sending in my old 3DS info was downright painful. But, BlueOycrunkness came to the rescue -- and the SOAP change itself only took three minutes! I have to wait until next Friday for the console cooldown to wear off and I can actually make the system transfer, but this 3DS XL is Americanized through and through now. In the meantime I've got to buy some screen protectors... Around 7:45 I had dinner, a kind of salty thick eggplant and took and fish stew with plenty of veggies and a couple stirfried mealworms just to try (creamy taste but a very very strange aftertaste, possibly from the shell), and around 9:15 I went on a walk with my mom around the neighborhood since she ate too many veggies and need to walk off her unsettled stomach. As we walked we talked more about UCSC and what to bring in prep for it. Truthfully I don't think I'll be bringing that much. My sweet dear creamsicle orange iMac is a dream of a computer with a beautiful display but it's not very portable. Framework Laptop is still on the shopping list -- albeit lower, since I want to wait until August to see how the new Intel chips benchmark against the AMD 5 and 7, which had a great balance of power and battery life (earlier models with Intel chips had weaker battery life, maybe 6-7 hours?). Did Humi 1 reflection and a little bit of Cengage. Not a lot of Cengage but enough to really crunch through it tomorrow.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391