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Posted On: Nov 22, 2025

Are we deadass right now? we couldn't get through 1 more month without 1 more persong getting added to the "horrible person" list?

If you didn't know already, alot of information has come to light about the popular Undertale speedrunner Shayy, and long story short, they groomed 20 KIDS, sexual harrasment, sexual assault, all that horrible stuff. I just find it so insane how not even 10 DAYS AGO, I was saying how insane it was how many people got cancelled this year for doing a variety of horrible things. NOW SHAYY. like how hard is it to just be a normal person? anyway, merry christmas!

Posted On: Nov 16, 2025

My plan to eliminate google (from my life) is getting closer and closer to being complete. I have downloaded all my favorite music so I can listen to it anywhere, and I also downloaded all my playlists just to have them as an archive. I also switched to using Proton mail and Proton Calender, Which is amazing by the way. I also did a google takeout on all my google photos and put that on my NAS, then deleted all the photos on google and turned off backup. I'm also now using Obsidian to take notes. Now the only thing I really need my google account for is when people email me on there, but I set it up so it forwards the email to my proton mail, so I can respond through that. I also still need my account for when I want to add new songs to my music playlists, which I would then download.

My college course for architectual design starts tomorrow, so I'm pretty excited for that. I will need to do the course on windows, because you need to use a bunch of Autodesk programs, but It'll be fine. In the future when I get a job in this field, they'll probably have me use that same software, or some other programs that require windows, so there isn't really any escaping it. It's probably not inherently bad to have my Work OS be different from my main OS anyway, becuase I heard that it psychologically makes you switch into work mode if you have them be seperate, so It'll be good.

So anyways, I started ding my own laundry a while ago, and it is insane how much BETTER IT IS. in the past when my mom was doing the laundry, I would sometimes put some clothes in the laundry bin, and I wouldn't see them for two weeks sometimes. Obviously this isn't my mom's fault because she can't constantly be doing laundry, but it was kind of like shipping something without a tracking number, just completely in the dark to where it might be. Now that I switched to doing my own laundry, I always know exactly where all my clothes are, and I can go from a full dirty laundry basket to Clean, hung up clothes in just a few hours, so I can just do that every Sunday! I know this is a very simple thing that everyone does, but it's so nice to have full control over my laundry. I can also sort my hung up clothes any way that I want, so I have It organized as follows:

Hoodies ^ , Shirts ^ , Pants ^ , Extra hangers ^

Also, I can't wait to move out. I love my family, but I really want to plan, shop, and cook my meals. I find it so fun, I already have a full meal plan I made on a spreadsheet, So I'm just waiting to use it. Cooking is so fun like omg, especially making homemade pasta, cutting up and preparing chicken, making pasta salad, I love doing all of it, and you get meals at the end of it too so It's basically the best thing ever.

Anyway Have a great day, and uhh remember to drink alot of water throughout the day!

Posted On: Nov 13, 2025

Hi everyone, my name is xavier. I currently live in a tiny town in Canada, and I'm currently doing College online (Nov 2025- July 2026) for Architectual design with CAD software. I'm following this specific career path because I have always really enjoyed making 3D models and 3d printing them. By the way for the past 3 years I've been running a 3D printing business, mainly selling items locally through the Saturday market, or custom orders to people who found out I do 3D printing throuh word of mouth. I've also gotten 68 sales through an online Etsy store (not active right now so I can focus on college), but I might keep it down for good because I heard somewhere that Etsy allowed some bad things to be sold on their website, So I think it's cancelled or something.

Speaking of cancellation, isn't it insane how many people have gotten cancelled this year? like I know it's good that people found out if someone was being a horrible person, or a company being really shady, but It's so weird to me how it was ALL in 2025. I don't really use the news or look at social media (except Youtube sometimes), so I miss alot of unimportant events that are going on, but EVEN THEN, it still feels like I've seen at least 10 people and 3 companies get cancelled this year alone.

So anyway, onto this blog's main topic, which is setting up everything, including this website. In the past few months, I've been switching everything I use to be either free, open source, or just good software. I started using fedora KDE linux mid-September, and I never looked back. the ONLY times I boot into Windows now is for stuff that I just can't use on Linux, like FL Studio, Clip Studio Paint, the CAD software I'll be using for my college course that starts soon, or some itch.io games. I also recently got Fedora Gnome working on my Microsoft Surface laptop, with the touchscreen working and everything! My dad also had a QNAP NAS lying around, so I set that up too, now I have a place to backup and archive anything I want! I also found out about yt-dlp, which allows me to download any youtube video or song, so I downloaded all my music playlists, and setup VLC so I can easily play any of my playlists in a few clicks! I ALSO setup my music to auto-sync with my phone, so anytime I download music on my PC, It's on my phone too! I just find it so cool that I can actually HAVE my music just as files on my computer!!

With making websites, my ONLY other experience with making one is many years ago, when I had a Technology class, and we got to design our own websites in a website hosting platform called Replit. I WOULD attach a link to my really old website, but unfortunately I don't think the website ever stayed online, and my School account was deleted after I graduated, so I'm pretty sure it's gone forever. After that course, I never really thought about making a website again, up until a few days ago, when I found a Youtube video made by "Green hoodie cat" (I think that was their name) about how boring it is that in today's day and age, we only really visit the same few websites, and that's it. They then introduced this really cool web hosting site called neocities, and the exciting world of the Indie-web! after watching that video and seeing how fun it looked, I decided to make my account here, and start creating this website! At first I didn't really know what I was doing, so I looked around the neocities website and I found the interactive tutorial they made with my GOAT Penelope the cat, and within 15 minutes I had made a simple HTML site! At that point I had a rough vision for what I wanted my website to look like, so I tried looking up how to do CSS, but I couldn't really find any easy to use cheat sheets or guides, so I (please forgive me for this) unfortunately used AI to tell me how to do the CSS, and what each property meant. While doing it that way is alot better than just copy pasting your code into and out of an AI chatbot, I still feel like it should be a LAST RESORT, because I honestly just straight up hate AI. After adding some more stuff to the website, I wanted to add a dropdown for this blog, but I obviously have no idea how to do that, so THIS TIME I ended up just looking at someone else's website code for their dropdown menu, and I "borrowed" it to use for my own website. I don't know what the general rule of thumb is on crediting people on here, but since I'm not a terrible person, they're credited at the bottom of this page. (go check out their website, it's really cool!)

Most recently, I also added dropdown menus to my Fav media page, and added a guestbook (go check it out!) This is honestly the most fun I've had in a while, as I've been stuck in the youtube dopamine loop for a little while now, just trying to break out of it any way that I can, whether it be taking up a new hobby like Piano or drawing, or using youtube blockers like Unhook which block my recommended feed, both of which have only been partially succesful, but startung THIS has helped waaaayyyy more!!!! I am having an absolute blast making my own personal website, so I plan to keep adding to it for as long as I can! If you read this whole thing, then thank you so much! I hope you have a great day :) .

P.S, I just saw that valve announcement video about their new controller, PC, and VR headset, and it's all so cool! I should really start a wishlist for some of this stuff, I know I don't need it but it's so amazing.