Today I played with my puppets. I didn’t have them fight the goblins, instead I had them dance and perform.

It was my first time trying to control more than one puppet at the same time, and it didn’t go so well at first. I kept switching between them, controlling one and then controlling the other. Having them do the same thing at the same time was easy, it only took slightly more effort than controlling one, but what I wanted to do was control them independently of each other.

I made very little progress at that today. I did manage to get them to mirror each other, instead of doing the same thing, or switching back and forth, but nothing more than that.

Willow came to me today holding a bottle with a storm cloud in it, excitedly showing it off to me. She said she finally managed to make something self-sustaining at that small of a scale, she then proceeded to give me a very detailed explanation of how it works, almost all of which going over my head. What I did get is that it isn’t perfect, so it will fade away over the course of the next week, which is still significantly longer than she’s been able to do before, and for her age probably feels like forever.

Today was, frustrating, to say the least. Usually, when I work on what feels like an impossibly difficult project, like figuring out how to create a miniature self-sufficient ecosystem, I feel like I at least managed to make a little progress. I don’t feel like I made any today, it makes me want to rip something apart. After I'm done writing this I'm going to go have my puppet spar against some goblins, hopefully, I can vent some frustration that way.

Anyway, I can’t really say goodnight, since I'm not going to sleep yet, but goodbye for now diary.