Hard to believe that in about a week's time I'll be taking my first ever flight to Japan... Heck, it's my first ever trip east of Vienna (excluding one trip to Jordan)! ワクワクする (*o* )

Sleep is wild. I wake up spontaneously 15 seconds before my wife's alarm, and the very last thing I remember from my dream is my uncle saying "By age 50, I may have a yeast infection". What?

Anytime our little guy has a sizeable poop, I celebrate. It might be a French thing: to us, a gross butt is a big goal.

I'm always amused when people are surprised IRL by my crass sense of humour. There's a reason my bio says "the thinnest veneer of propriety". Underneath the suit, it's all just memes, dick jokes, 90s Comedy Channel stand-up, and cursed references.

Kinda tastes like a really mild orange creamsicle pop, but less sweet. I wouldn't exactly call it "good", but it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected it to be. 2/5 for me.

The news today reminded me of some things. I recently recovered my model of the Scientist Swaglarian from one of my moving boxes. He once again holds a place of honour on my bookshelf. Speaking of Mordin, my old sketch of him remains one of my favourite drawings I ever did.

Taking a moment to acknowledge some heroes. VTech Giraffe, hero of tummy time Mister Carrot, lord of naps Lil Raf, chewtoy champion And our newest addition, Mini Winnie, rotation specialist

Today was a big day for our little guy. Took him to a busy restaurant to meet some friends, then swung by work and introduced him to a few of my work buddies. Then tonight, he even rolled over on purpose all by himself for the first time! And through it all, totally chill. 👼

Signal boosting a game some friends of mine made. It's a fun time! Check out Sine: A Story-Driven RPG by Ox Games on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/oxg...

Sine: A Story-Driven RPG

The new science-fantasy TTRPG set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by an alien invasion. Quick action with a cinematic focus.

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And now my throat is spicy. That is usually my canary in the coal mine for incoming illness... Work just had to leave me a passing gift, hunh... T_T

For those wondering, I'll be in Osaka from the 9th to the 16th, and then Tokyo from the 17th to the 24th. It's just me and I haven't made any firm plans beyond that (and the major itself of course), so if you'd like to hang out at some point there, please shoot me a DM. 🙂

Round two of paternity leave begins today. A couple months to finally catch up on sleep, set up my office properly, and baby proof everything. Plus, I get to spend some extra time with my precious little fella. ☺️ All that, and a little trip to Japan in between... 😄

While we're at it, I'll do the anime one too. myanimelist.net/profile/Tric...

Oh hey people are doing a trend! Lemme in on this... Does this sufficiently confirm my unc status?

I may get some hate for this, but I tried Baja Blast for the first time today, and I'm not really seeing the appeal. It just takes like carbonation with a hint of lime syrup. Maybe it's just because Mountain Dew in general has always tasted too synthetic to me...

My wife gave me some cute little wiener crabs. 🥰

I got to visit the old office building the other day and pay a visit to an old friend. I sorely miss having easy access to a bidet at work...

I made a blog post recapping what's been going on in my life over the last few years. The content is whatever, but I included a bunch of photos I've gotten from events over the last couple years, and that felt worth sharing. www.trichotome-design.com/blog/2026/9/...

2026 Update — Trichotome Design

It sure has been a while since I’ve updated this website, let alone this blog. There’s a few reasons for that, some of which I can get into, others not so much. Still, in the interest of maintaining ...

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Sam hit 100 days old yesterday! Sleep deprivation side, he's been an angel so far, and he keeps getting cuter every day. ❤️ Though this is also about the point that Steph and I agreed not to post his face on social media anymore. Now I've really gotta fight the urge 😅

So I was gonna play Siege today right after putting my little guy to bed and doing some stretches. I did both of those things, then three hours later I woke up on the floor... It's been a long week.

I heard there was a spooky gourd That David carved cause he was bored But you aren't really scared of pumpkins, are ya? Well it goes like so The eyes the nose The toothy mouth where the candle glows The jack-o'-lantern screaming Halloween yeah Halloween yeah...

Celebrating being an even older adult by eating half of a giant sucre a crème cake for breakfast. This is an excellent use of free will, if I do say so myself.

The hour has come, as so it is that I exit my French familial trauma art era, and enter my gooner law era. Such is life.

My little guy decided to wake up at 4am, went absolutely ballistic for an hour, and refused to settle anywhere but on my lap. It's now 6:40 and I'm finally able to go back to sleep for a little bit... I miss three days ago when he'd just sleep through the whole night...

I never thought I'd find myself plotting an infiltration into my bedroom in order to huff ass to confirm the presence of poop, while being frightened at the prospect of what I would have to do if I found some. Butt here we are. Alas, t'was merely the wind. My son and I may rest.

Being a dad can be very intimidating. There's a lot of pressure to live up to certain expectations, and I won't lie, sometimes I'm not able to hide how scared I am of that. In fact, you could say that I'm dreadfully apparent.

Assuming I don't design another op anytime soon, I'll say that my one regret is how few defenders I got to work on. I especially wanted to design a counter to trackers. I also wanted to make more ops that aren't trackers or flank watch, but that's just how things turned out.

Tomorrow I go back to work for a couple months. Should be fun getting back into the action. Apparently I'll also be ramping off operators (they're in great hands, don't worry) and taking on a new primary mandate. TBD what it will be exactly, but it should be very exciting stuff.

The baby won't poop Constipation sucks real bad Just so much screaming

Something that is often a surprise to people is the nature of "ownership" designers have over their mandates. It's less comprehensive and far more fluid than you'd think. You're not deciding stuff so much as you're figuring out the best path to reach the objective you're given.