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This morning, I'm fighting pain and lack of sleep. It's down to a partly completed root canal surgery, which has left me with the prospect of either a tooth extraction next week, or some kind of special hand-wave procedure that sounds like Scotty from Star Trek thinking up some technobabble solution to avoid antimatter annihilation. 

In this weakened and emotional state, I completed the 2025 Blender Survey, which prompted me to reflect on my lack of contribution over the past few years. I stopped my subscription years ago, as part of an urgent cost-saving measure. I later excused not restarting payments because I wasn't doing as much Blender work. Later, when Blender became my "main thing", I felt that I was spending a lot of money on Blender Addons, which adds a small contribution with each purchase. I decided that I could afford £10 per month in addition to all the SuperHive store purchases. That makes me feel better. Maybe this excruciating pain was really the build-up of guilt for not contributing? *Side of my face still throbs with pain* Nope, it really is a swollen gum. 

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Release Candidate

Blender 5.0 Release Candidate snuck out in the dead of night. I installed it on my secondary machine, but I will hold off installing it on my main machine. A major release means a fresh installation and the case-by-case reinstallation of addons. It's potentially troublesome, and while I thought I'd be able to do it over this "candidate week", some addons will still need updates and probably won't appear until after 5.0 enters general availability, next week. I will do some play testing, but I'm not going to risk falling into a can of horrible software worms in my current state.

Well, hello there!

Well, Character Creator 4 still works, though it's installed on my secondary machine.

Cthulhu cubes -- generative AI assets.

Egg house progress. I have 1 week until the celebration scene needs to be finished.