Quick Late April Update
Today I finally managed to do the last part of a couple of small things I had been meaning to do for about a week, but I’m embarrassingly behind on pretty much everything even for me and I also just realized a couple of days ago that the main non-personal post I’ve been toying with for the past several days would be pointless, as it’d have been based on something dating back to 2011. As such, you’ll just get this quick update now and then I’ll see what else I can come up with by the end of the week.
First, I have to say that the blackout didn’t quite work as planned, as my ISP decided to crash at 2:50 AM my time, so 11:50 PM GMT, and I was therefore unable to set up the redirects at midnight GMT, as I had planned. According to the logs, it recovered some four hours later, but I was asleep at the time, only happening to wake up and decide to check at 8:45 AM. Still, that meant I was able to start it just at 6 AM GMT, which was actually the scheduled start time of the event, and keep it up for 30 hours, as I maintained my own planned end time, of noon GMT the next day. Unfortunately, the site seemed to get fewer visitors during that time than during an average day, but at least a few people saw the message, so it still counts.
Otherwise, we’re getting beautiful spring weather, with highs even into the high 20s, and everything is green all of a sudden, so I’d be somewhat tempted to go finish Century of the Soldier in a park, but after going out to buy a few things yesterday and seeing as I may be going to a concert on Sunday, I really can’t get myself to go out yet another time this week. Besides, I still have over 250 pages to go, so it’s not like I could finish it in one sitting, the current problem being that I even fell behind the number of pages I should read per day to at least finish it in two weeks. Back in the day, I’d have finished an 800-page book in one week without even trying, but now I have to struggle to even read so much that even doing it in two weeks requires real effort.
Speaking of reading, still didn’t even open this month’s National Geographic, so I should get to that as well, not to mention that my story continues to suffer a lot. Quality was a lost cause long ago, but I once again can’t even manage to get much quantity in, so I’m wondering whether I should try to pick some related projects, such as the maps or a couple of short stories, back up. At the same time, there’s a reason I haven’t done any of those things all these years, so I don’t see how that will change now when it seems that I’m feeling even worse than usual, even physically, my body seeming to want to tell me that it’s about to give. Still, seeing as a worsening of the old bugs experienced on MobyGames means that I can’t keep submitting ranks there anymore, I might as well try to use any time I’d normally set aside for that on some days for this and see if it gets me anywhere.
