Inspirobot just seems appropriate.
*Sheepishly walks back in, turns on the lights, starts taking chairs down off the tables and getting them set up*
Hey all. It’s been a while since I last posted. The world’s been on fire, in one notable case extremely literally. Covid’s messing up the entire country extremely badly, and the rest of the world badly, but notably less so as they tend to have more competent leadership. And there’s been the usual struggles: difficulty getting myself to click with my current job, isolation (made much worse due to covid), moving, self-image and self-esteem issues in a whole passel of forms, and good old-fashioned depression and anxiety.
Good times, good times.
But I don’t want to neglect this blog any longer, even if in the moment I don’t have a ton to say beyond the updates above. I’d worry that going into details about what I’ve been doing would make this blog too sad-sack, but the benefit of not having a personal brand is that I can be a downer as much as I want! The downside is no one outside of people I know personally has any idea of who I am, but that’s okay, there are worse fates and I can always try to change that situation if I need to. Hell, if it’s anything like The Sims 3 I’ll end up changing it on accident by talking to a celebrity a single time.
Speaking of, I’ve been on a bit of a gaming kick recently due to having a lot of indoor evenings due to the whole pandemic thing. I finally played through Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which I have a lot of feelings about but it was a solidly-made game. I re-installed The Sims 3 and have been giving that a go. Having a computer that’s way overpowered for it smooths out most of the performance problems, and a few mods have altered the gameplay in ways I like. I’m still struggling with the fact that I have a hard time letting stories evolve organically among my sims, because I like trying to optimize their actions. But it’s a fun dollhouse to play with for a bit. I’ve also been itching to get back into PubG, as I’ve been re-watching Awful Squad, but that will have to wait until I un-brick my windows install.
To explain: I was trying to free up some space last night, deleted the linux partition on that computer, extended my windows partition, and promptly borked my bootloader/uefi/mbr/GRUB/??? setup. I thiiiiink I can just use a Win10 installation medium to run a repair on it and it should be good to go, and I know my files are still there because I’ve gotten Windows to half-boot properly once and saw them, but we’ll see how it goes. Never count your OS-chickens before they hatch, or you end up with Windows ME. It’s just Science.
Other than that I’ve been doing some reading. Mostly Sword of Destiny, the second collection of Witcher stories, and She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan. I’ve also been digging into some RPG reading on campaign management, as I’ve been working on getting together a podcast game and want to do a good job if I can.
Still, despite how productive that makes me sound I feel like I’ve been spinning my wheels just aimlessly surfing the internet a lot, or falling asleep at inopportune times (thanks, depression!), or doing other similar things. I’m hoping to try and get myself back in a more productive routine, because I know being at a certain level of productive makes me a much happier person. For example, the nights I actually write, be it fiction or blog post (ho ho!), I feel way better. Even if right now I’ve mostly been writing silly smut that will never see the outside of the proverbial trunk.
How is everyone else holding up? What are you up to, and what have you been doing to stay safe and sane during all this? Let me know, and remember: every time you actually post in the comments section instead of on whatever social media you were linked here from, you get a cookie. A cookie of self-satisfaction! Yay!
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