Just writing here to give a sign of life. Life has been very busy lately so I haven’t had time to sit and work on any posts here, however I’ve been doing a crap load of work on my Etsy store, particularly with my laser cutter. I’ll eventually post them all here, but right now just not enough time. I’m thinking when winter rolls around I’ll get caught up on thigs a little more.

Ok I was never really cool. But over the last year I’ve entered a phase of my life where I feel like it’s time to grow up after having a dire realization that it’s either now or never. And sadly that means less video games and never being cool. And while my tag line on this blog also includes comicbooks, I must admit that I haven’t read one in ages.

In traditional fashion, I don’t plan on getting overly personal or into much detail here, but events in 2023 have made me greatly reexamine myself. These events led me to overturn many rocks in my mind and find things hidden under them that I reflected on during many sleepless nights. Through meticulous analysis spurred on by an overactive mind, I dissected those events, leading me to further delve into my traits, ambitions, needs, goals, shortcomings, values, relationships, and vices. Conclusions drawn from these mental marathons laid out the good, the bad and why both are there. Ultimately seeing myself with such clarity gives me motivation and hope as well. In short, I took a long look at my life and decided to change some things.

So how will that influence this blog? Naturally playing less video games and reading less comics, I imagine there will be fewer video game and comicbook related posts as I shift my focus on more grown up activities. Ultimately this blog was supposed to be a creative outlet primarily inspired by the video games I played and comics I read. But many of those creative projects take considerable time to build up the resources to complete them. Maybe deep down inside I knew I set video game projects with such distant goals that I used them to justify continuing playing. Sadly over the years I’ve barely accomplished any of my long term creative projects I had intended to share here. And as much as I don’t want to do so, I feel many of them will simply never be complete due to the shift in priorities. However that is not to say that all of my video game or comic posts will simply stop, I have still put in countless hours to gather material to complete some projects and over time and I do hope to finish them. But starting ambitious new ones will ultimately cease. Many other projects that will be posted here will be more tangible ones as I plan to focus on designing actual physical artistic creations rather than digital, and they will still most likely be video game focused. As a side note, I’ll still probably have the odd Pokemon Go post as I use that to motivate myself to get more steps in a day as one focus now is getting more exercise and losing weight. Generally my posts will become fewer and farther in between as well. Along with less video games, I’m planning to spend less time on my computer overall. While it’s been a nearly lifelong source of entertainment and knowledge, I feel it’s also hindering my life in many other areas.

That seems to be it I guess. I imagined this post to be longer and more heartfelt when I began it. But it looks like it sort of fizzled out. In short, less video game posts, more creative stuff, and probably less overall posts as I change my life up a bit.

I will be taking a bit of time away from posting anything. From the bullet point advice below, I’m sure you’ll get the idea of what happened. In short I need a little recovery time.

– Remind those you love, that you love them daily.
– Put in more effort for others.
– Ask for help when needed. Those you ask will feel appreciated rather than burdened.
– It’s ok to cry.