Stumbling Through Adulthood

I never really quite understood Minecraft. I mean, yay, you're building shit... but what does it do? And I say that as a person who spent many an hour with a bucket of LEGO.

But OMG, that Townscaper app? I am totally in love with it. Not just to display my Wordle results to send to Perry, but just to create little scenes of watery serenity.

And today I played around a bit more, things I thought weren't live were and my little settlement is now experiencing golden hour:



That is, of course, before night falls and the lights come on...



I just need to figure out where to go pay for this.

1. On my family's weekly Skype call, we talked about getting together for a trip because we are all desperate to travel. Costa Rica, Fiji, Hawaii were all mentioned. Because my phone was acting up, I was on mute most of the time, but I broke in to talk about how wonderful it would be to see the Northern Lights (which I know is on my sister and my aunt's bucket lists, AC's and mine as well) and the nice thing about visiting a Nordic country is that there would be "city" things to do as well. 180 turn, and now they're all thinking about travelling to Oslo (AC found some cool trips) for Christmas, either 2021 or 2022 depending. LOL.

2. This week, I passed level 3000 on Candy Crush Saga. They sent me an email congratulating me, and informing me that only 8% of users got that far. Cringe is all I can think. That's not a group I'm particularly proud to be part of. That said, I've been playing for a few years, I play when my brain is occupied at something else (like listening to Jen Psaki), and I haven't paid a single cent, so I guess it isn't as bad as it could be. My sister deleted her account, and the game from her phone after she found she'd spent $20 over a weekend on extra lives, LOL. The conference she was at must have been very boring.

3. mRNA. Injected as a vaccine -thanks Pfizer and Moderna- gets translated into protein etc. Question. I can haz GFP mRNA injected to I'll glow green (or YFP for yellow) under UV light? If it could be tailored to express only in presence of something else, could it be used for temporary tattoos with some weird ink that binds to something "transparent" that was "painted" or "needled" into the skin. I'll have to think more about that.