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Today, I had a nice talk with my dad. I say "talk," but really it was just him talking... I mostly listened. He talks a lot (and very loudly) about things he's passionate about. I don't think this is a bad thing, by the way, nor do I think our talk was a bad experience

on the contrary, in fact

but I did want to pose the question: do teachers speak loudly, in general? Both my parents are teachers, so it's a bit hard for me to tell. I know there's cultures that generally speak louder, I know my dad speaks louder than most, in general, but I can't say if my parents, being teachers, speak even louder so. Most of their friends are teachers, so lots of my friends have been teachers' kids. I've been in academia most of my life. I just don't really have points of comparison, here.

Anyway.

We spoke about his self-hosting system. He has... Well, lots of stuff. I don't know enough to explain everything in this post, but let's just say that he has lots of stuff that he uses to store a bunch of stuff, namely movies and TV shows. Pirated? Perchance. I shan't confirm nor deny! Who are you, anyway?! A COP?! Pigs get stitches, or whatever they say...

I kid.

It's legal here.

I've thought about setting up something similar myself

I've even discussed it on this comm, if I recall correctly

but to see that my very own dad has done it himself does give me a certain sense of pride. I really like my family, and it was a delight to hear him talk so passionately about that stuff.

That has also gotten me thinking about ways to store things, information. I've been big on mechanical pencils for a while, now, but I'm also considering buying some notebooks. I'm not sure what kind of notebook I should buy... The ones I currently use are low-quality and kind of bad. I don't like writing in them very much at all! I feel like there should be something else I could use that would make the overall experience more enjoyable, though. I'd hope so, at least.

Somewhat unrelatedly, I went back and watched the videos I'd stacked on my Watch Later playlist. I use that feature quite a lot. One of the videos was some guy playing and explaining the game "Scoundrel." The video itself, I feel, was pretty bad. I didn't like the way he played at all. However, the game seemed really cool. Here are the rules. I also saw YT user 4theWizard talk about a personal rule they used where Jokers work as merchants that exchange weapons for health potions. Really cool, too.

I'm huge (giga huge) on card games. I love cards. I love games. Bingo bango. I've created my own card games too, but it's cool to see other people's ideas. I really want to buy a nice deck of cards... I know of one that I really love, but it seems oddly hard to get one's hands on. Maybe I'd need to go somewhere specific to find it, or I'd have to pay too much on shipping... Maybe I'm too broke and too stingy for nice decks of cards? It hurts. I might buy it, one day... One day...