… To Rebirth

Journal 136 16-22 Dec. -2024

I almost skipped a week again, but I remembered my promise. Though this time I will probably go short.

My already damaged back decided to give out again. It feels like the ruptured and torn disc popped again.

In good news today I am in far less agony than I was three days ago, and I managed to sleep last night with less difficulty. But its not helping to write this from my lap desk in bed. Since my desk top in the office is a dead computer.

Anyway, a back belt is keeping my back aligned while I struggle through this post for you readers.

No Topic

I don’t have a main topic. I literally shamed myself into writing this after I promised to keep going.

I guess we can address the title of the blog.

Originally, I was going to do the last blog and this one as:

Count Down… To Extinction.

I was going to count down the blogs until I lost my domain and had to wrap this whole thing up. But I figured that the next few years were going to be a shit show anyway and I decided to overextend myself and pay for another few years on here.

I don’t know if I will change thigs up here or just keep it going as a journal. We’ve already had one phase change from the original blog to this version, so a third version wouldn’t be reaching so far.

At this moment, I have no plans for change.

Tomorrow

Metaphorically.

I imagine going forward I will devote more than half of each blog to reviews. Musing about characters, mine and others’, talking stories. Again, mine and others.’

We’ll have regular D&D talk, so if you don’t enjoy that, you’ll probably grow bored with this place. But D&D was the birth of everything. I wouldn’t have started telling stories, running games, and writing without this hobby.

There will be k-drama, Tokusatsu, and movie talk on here. Probably trying to push it toward academic discussion of the writing and character. And besides visual media I will talk novels and comics as well.

And eventually I will get back into the novel.

Resolutions

I stopped making new years resolutions a decade ago. Mostly.

But I also originally started this site to keep me accountable. I truly believed I would be ashamed to show the sheer amount of time I spend away from the keyboard. At the speed I write and think I should be producing 2-3 novels every year. But I never do.

In the spirit of shame. I am going to place some of my resolutions here. In public. To shame myself into getting them accomplished. They will be a bunch od simple directives to follow, but that makes the shame greater if I fail.

1. Make 40 blogs next year. That means I can only skip 1 Sunday per month.
2. Read novels again. Since college I have only read non-fiction and comics. Nothing else. So, I want to read at least 24 books next year. They can include non-fiction but those will count as half books.
3. Write the damn novel.
4. Keep up with the comics better, read at least four each week.

That’s enough for now. I have another that’s basically cook more, stop skipping meals until my sugar gets too low.

Anything Else?

I don’t have D&D stories to tell this week. I did get a chance to play my veteran character. The one I mentioned last week. Solace.

His intro went well, and I started to show off a few of his skills. But we didn’t get a lot of time in game with the characters yet. I will have more stories in the coming year. The next two weeks will be full of holidays, so not a lot of gaming going on.

Most of the k-dramas I’m watching right now are so-so, nothing to really get excited over.

I think I’ll cut it short here, as my back is screaming at me.

The good news is I’ve found enough drive to push on longer than expected. You’re stuck with me for a bit longer.

Thanks for reading.