I’ve been a bit lax with posting of late, but I’ve been somewhat busy with other projects and life stuff. A month or two I decided to apply to be part of an all-women expedition with an organization called Sea Women Expeditions to Norway’s Arctic fjords to follow the free-ranging killer whales during the annual herring run. I have long been fascinated with the arctic, and have been looking around for a new “outdoor” adventure Read more
There have been a lot of bears stuck in the valley bottoms thanks to a rather unforgiving and persistent snow pack, and this has brought up lots of thoughts about bear safety and the decision processes we do (or at least should) go through when we recreate in and around grizzly and black bear habitat (not to mention all the other wildlife we share this place with. Initially, this little project started as a way Read more
The title of this post is a culturally-obscure reference to a cartoon that I watched as a child in the UK about a furry red ball (Stoppit) and a purple blob shaped like an upside-down bowling pin (Tidyup) and their exploits in the the mystical land of “Do As You’re Told”. This reference is particularly salient because not only has the last couple of weeks been about taking a step back and doing a bunch Read more
*title pun courtesy of my brother, Richard Edwards Over the last couple of weeks, I have been getting back into working on my game, and instead of trying to battle with the inventory system again, I thought I’d try working on something that I could make some more immediate progress with: the interactivities for another destination. One of the key concepts that I want to get across is that while the mantle (the very thick Read more
My husband finally returned to Saskatchewan on Monday after a glorious two weeks of covid-induced togetherness. We played video games (well, I mainly watched him get faux angry playing Elden Ring), eventually made it outside to climb some mountains and enjoy the outdoors, and ate some very delicious pizza (two pizzas, one savoury and one sweet, from different pizza places, in one night) – it was quite the no-cook Friday! Alas, I failed again in Read more
It has not been the most productive week. My husband celebrated his 40th birthday last weekend and being the fabulous wife I am, I gave him the best birthday gift of all – covid. After almost exactly 2 years of successfully evading it, we both succumbed, me on his birthday, and him a couple of days after. The major silver lining to all of this was that due to the military’s rules, he had to Read more
Welcome to my new website and my blog, New Adventures in VR. Other REM fans out there will recognize this as a play on the title of their brilliant, 1996 album, New Adventures in HiFi (thanks for the inspiration – and the memories – Stipey et al). I obviously don’t expect this blog (or any of the creative endeavours described herein) to match the quality of that little gem (or anything else in REM’s rich Read more