Another year, another Valentine's Day. I guess this has sort of become tradition, even if I screw up from time to time (on that note, be sure to check the browser for updates to past events X^D).
As you might have noticed, the amount of roses increases each Valentine's Day and July 4th. Since the beginning, the series has been 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17. It doesn't match up exactly, because 1 is not a prime number, and because 2 and 3 were not specific to a certain date (also, 3 deviated from the pattern as well by being a red rose, a pink rose, and a white rose). Instead, that was back in the period when I bought a new rose every time the old one died (as visible in this Lauriementary), and sometimes there happened to be some variation which coincidentally led to this silly fixation on undividable quantities.
I think the rose renewal process stopped after I was gone from home for a while, probably after a vacation of a few weeks (I can't remember). Over the course of the years I also forgot about them once or twice on the traditional dates. I was working on something last Valentine's Day that never got finished as well, and of course there's every Christmas where I'm all like IMA DRAW LAURIE COMIX and eventually nothing happens. All initiative, no persistence :^P
Inspiration is a fickle thing, I have found that out by now for sure. And not just for this, but for everything. But I'm a sucker for tradition, so every year I take it up on myself to prolong it no matter what, and I do derive enjoyment from it. I've mentioned before how I hate not delivering on you, me, my feelings, your feelings(?), and I guess this fits perfectly in this little train of thought.
This year was exactly the same, I had fun ideas and I never even got started. It was the reason for your little gift, I thought it would be fun to make a quick age with UnrealMYST, and you could use your brand-new copy of Unreal Tournament 3 to play it! Unfortunately, UnrealMYST is nowhere near completion yet and for a while its whole existance was doubtable, plus I feel a lot of pressure from my research assignment regarding time and attention, and to top it off I've been sick for the last two(!) weeks. So maybe there's a message in all this. I shouldn't feel bad about these things. I realize that I want to do things that I cannot do simply due to scale, time or energy. I guess it's one of my curses :^P
Perhaps this is why so many people take the materialistic route. At least I did too this year. That copy of Unreal Tournament 3 is going to be useful to have around when UnrealMYST takes off. And hey, you can always shoot big guns to make artificial characters bleed.