Alexander Kucera

Heute Mittag gibt’s Melonensalat

Just a quick service announcement. I am still in love with Uberspace. Their service rocks!

@hallo@uberspace.social

Thanks MidJourney. I could chill out there today.

Another hot day today. 30°C and almost 80% humidity. This is going to be fun…

I just ran my first proper D&D session. It was chaotic. I did a decently poor job. And the players had great fun and I loved it.

Over three hours in the ER. And all that for a bandage. Sigh.

At the emergency room once again. Life with kids. What can I say? I guess once a year is the tradition in our household.

Back home and knackered. It was a great concert. The kids were great. All six thousand of them. :)

At SAP Arena for the 6K United concert. Our boy is among those 6K.

Feuerwehr Fest Geinsheim 2024 #dorfkultur

Spielplatz-Fest in Geinsheim

In town, sitting in the shade enjoying the rather quiet street while sipping my peppermint tea.

Almost done converting the “The Lost Mine of Phandelver” campaign into a Foundry VTT Game World. ✔️ Maps loaded in. ✔️ Walls and doors drawn ✔️ Enemies and other NPCs placed on map (shoutout to AI Monster Importer) ✔️ Imported the whole campaign text into Journals ✔️ Convert all “read to the group” text into audio narration with the help of ElevenLabs’ voice “John Doe - Intimate”

Still to be done:

• Getting familiar with a few add-modules to make playtime smoother
• Search out appropriate music and ambience sounds

Wow. ICQ was still around?? ICQ is shutting down

I recently discovered Foundry VTT as a way to play role playing games with my friends from all over there the world.

I have spent a few days transferring a D&D campaign to digital format and it is coming together just greatly. Great maps with flickering lights, atmospheric background music.

And I even found a way to have all the story hooks being read by a great AI narrator via ElevenLabs. They have a great Michael Kramer like voice (John Doe - Intimate) and I was able to get the whole campaign vocalized for just €5.

So, after another round of failed communications with my current web host MidPhase—I have been waiting for over a week to hear back from support—I have decided to move hosts.

I am now with Uberspace.

They had me interested for a long time now and I finally took the plunge and am loving it. Their business model is quite unique in that it is “pay what you want”. No strings attached. Same service for everyone. If you see the value and can afford it, you pay more. If not less. Down to €1/month.

Their interface is mostly SSH shell based, so one better be somewhat Terminal skilled.

Ha ha. Not touching the snake was not an option in the end. Both girls conquered their fear. And it seems both were proud of it.

Sadly the girls were too scared to touch a snake. :)

At the Landau Reptile Zoo with Willow and her friend. It’s nice and warm in here and lots of little critters to learn about.

The village is coming together for some vineyard singing.

#kindeyforum is over. Some interesting talks and some new acquaintances later we are heading home.

Today’s schedule. #kidneyforum

Pretty full. #kidneyforum

In Heidelberg beim Nierentransplantations-Forum. Es ist ganz gut besucht.

Getting into rowing. Dark Horse Rowing has a great intro series on YouTube. → Rowing Fundamentals