Traveled for the first time in about a year, and I don't miss it. I think I was a bit more paranoid than normal because of the added layer of facemasks and people just being people, but with facemasks.
The OnVoice project is pretty simple, so I just need to leave the Engineers to do their work without too much interference, and communicate internally until I am blue in the face. I must get lasting trust for this to work well. I like to have a simple path through the process, and it certainly seems like they are open to it being automated. I am mainly working from checklists at the moment, so it will take a little bit of doing for it to morph into something cleaner.
I got a chance to have dinner with Masa, which was fun. I feel bad for him on his own like that for so long. I mean, he has friends, but I think it really means a lot to think back on his early years when he was dirt poor and struggling with everything. I am glad we stayed friends for so long, and I hope he finds a healthy way to navigate the many twists and turns he will encounter as he moves into a phase of his life where things are not so hard to manage.
It was great to reconnect with engineers I worked with before, and the new engineer is knowledgeable in how they have done it in the past. I am sure he is a troubleshooter, so I am going to leave him alone to figure out his own solutions with minimal prompting.
My modding work has taken a trajectory I did not really expect. My vampire home evolved into more than I was planning initially, but that's the way creative endeavors go, especially with me. I am thinking of a way for a non-dragonborn character to still play through the dragonborn DLC using vampire types of powers, and complete the Dawnguard quest without ever seeing Harkon until he is under my sights. I want to destroy both the Dawnguard and the Volkihar Court. I have an idea for the main quest, which involves being the follower to the true dragonborn, taking him through as much of the main quest as possible, but there will simply be some parts where I can only send him on a mission on his own, and he simply returns with the spoils. I have tried character switching, and it is only partially successful. Will continue to experiment to see if something can be done with this idea.