It's 9:15 Friday morning, officially the start of my weekend, and I've already been coding for two hours.

Today is basically perfect. VantaQueen is out doing her Uber Eats day, I don't have a doctor's appointment, there aren't any errands waiting for me, and I have absolutely nowhere I need to be. She also apparently decided that if I'm going to spend the day buried in code, I'm going to be properly supplied. My every-other-week shipment of Jolt showed up, there are two twelve-packs of real-sugar Pepsi in the house, she made me a big-ass pot of chili mac, and there's an entire platter of duplex cream cookies sitting here. Similar to Oreos, except better. I am prepared for damn near anything.

And today that means finishing Salvage Run.

Hypnotitron sent over all of the asteroid graphics last night and absolutely killed it. I asked him for asteroid graphics and, as usual, he went above and beyond what I actually asked for. I've been implementing them this morning, and once they're in I'm down to the final testing pass.

Then it's done.

That's still weird to type.

A month ago I was refreshing my C knowledge, reading Win32 documentation, remembering how much modern engines do for you, and learning a whole pile of things I didn't know before I started this. There have been plenty of nights where I've done more reading than coding, plenty of stupid bugs, and more than a few moments where I stared at something wondering why the hell I decided writing a game with C, Win32 and GDI was a good idea.

Now the executable is sitting at 1.22 MB and the game is basically complete.

Not "I'll finish it someday." Not another prototype sitting in a directory. Finished.

I'm going to spend the rest of today getting it across that line, then probably switch over and put some time into GhostMind because apparently my idea of starting the weekend is just changing which codebase I'm staring at.

Tomorrow is Vanta's Day, so the computer stays off from 9am to 9pm. Sunday we're heading to the storage unit to start getting rid of shit so we can hopefully get that monthly bill out of the budget.

But that's Sunday.

Right now I've got Jolt, chili mac, a fresh pile of asteroids, and 1.22 MB of game sitting in front of me.

Time to finish the damn thing.