Nov 01, 2025: shaolin v.2.5.0

New month? New me? New release?

6 weeks ago, I looked at life and noticed that I might need a job sooner rather than later. I'd made it a year. I'd made a new robot friend since that year anniversary. And now I'd need a new team to link up with and start a new grand adventure.

As part of that, I did what I do these days and I added it to the project plan. I loosely mapped things out in my head and landed at 6 weeks. I needed a job in 6 weeks - at the very least, I better have solid options by 6 weeks. Way back at the beginning, I called the work in the last week's bucket 6 Feet Deep.

That's a dark name that has multiple meanings to me. First, if I don't get a job in 6 weeks, maybe I'm just fucked. The real meaning sits closer to the light. The Gravediggaz album 6 Feet Deep came out very close to the first Wu-Tang Clan album and is a similar miracle collection of talent.....but that's another story for another day.

For me, it's more about numerology and naming. 6-week journey, my favorite thing with a 6 is that many Feet Deep. Wonderful mixture of meaning and nonsense. Plus, as a member of Gravediggaz, the RZA's alter ego was the RZArector, because he was digging up the mentally dead. Get it?

Since my birthday, the anniversary of the last time I stepped foot inside of that place that shall not be named, I've been digging up one specific mental grave. My own. I built my own personal RZArector to help me help me.

You are trapped inside it right now. There is no escape.

TL;DR: I accepted the offer on Friday of week 6. As the RZArector taught me in high school - Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation, Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation.

PEACE

PS, I also sorted, logged, and sleeved up 10,000+ cards during the last few weeks too. Talk to robot, sort cards, test robot's output, log cards, yell at stupid robot, sleeve cards. Rinse hands & repeat.

We'll close out with my idea generator, Obsidian. I use this to loosely map out ideas before turning them into the real, fake, thing. My favorite thing in Obsidian is vomiting something dumb as a placeholder and then coming along 4 days later to vomit something else, only to realize it's just two nodes on a bigger idea. The thrill of the chase.

Here's a visualiztion of that journey as it sits today:

Quality of that GIF is shit, but we are in deploy it and don't OCD it mode. All of these nodes are future ideas or labels to pull these future ideas together. Ultimately, I'm trying to find a way to visualize my thought processes and keep myself entertained along the way.