19 august 2026
New day off post!
Yesterday was a fantastic day off. :)
Katie and I spent the day bumming around Monterey before heading to our friends' house for Vietnamese food and fun.
We went to the record store first where I got a David Gilmour CD for $10. Woohoo! Katie found the Ryo Fukui album Scenery on CD as well so she picked that one up. After the record store we went to a small coffee shop near the post office and got iced mochas and sat on the patio drinking them. Monterey is full of old adobe buildings that have been retro-fitted into other things and this coffee shop was one of them. I love good local history and I was trying to imagine what the building may have been in its previous iterations.
Next, we went to the library and I showed Katie a book by Gene Wolfe that I thought she'd like and she checked it out. I'm excited to see if it clicks with her. Finally, we wandered down to the farmer's market. We found a small, upstairs used book store. The kind that's super, super tiny with books crammed into piles and shelves all over. The kind of place a protagonist in a young adult novel wanders into and finds a magical book that changes their destiny. I did not find such a book, but I did find an old Conan the Barbarian paper back with really cool illustrations so I got that. Then we walked the street fair with a fresh fruit drink before finally heading over the our friends' house.
There we pigged out on Vietnamese food and oh yeah! My friend Anthony and I released our first video game for sale!! We've been working on it with one other person off and on over the last five years and finally being able to push the launch button was an amazing feeling. Woke up this mornign to a few sales too! For those reading this not in the know, you can check it out here:
www.verticalcollapse.com
After that, Paisley and I played Switch tennis where she promptly kicked my butt five matches in a row. Yeah, I need to get good. Then I kicked her butt at Mario kart sooo... take that. :P
We got home, cracked a beer and Katie went to bed while I stayed up late on the retro computer I've been tinkering with playing Diable II.
So yeah... Good day. :)
Cheers! -milo