New Year's Resolutions 2018

• Write 3 blog posts each month:  2017 required me to hit the big reset button on this one.  
• Add at least 1 webcomic to the caught-up webcomics list each month:  This should help make sure that I burn through archives at a reasonable rate.  January is going to be Legostar Galactica month, it seems.  ;)
• Finish 4 books this year:  I keep forgetting that this is a resolution.  It's just something that I want to do.  4 seems low, but I'm having trouble keeping myself organized, and I'm hoping to fix that this year, and then go back to reading a lot. 

Life Update March/April 2017

OK, I want to write this to let you all know that March and April were swamped for me due to some major undertakings over at Real Life Job.  I ended up deciding to just skip March's blogging, but that went over into April, too.  Things are clearing up now, though, so I should be able to do 3 posts per month for May forward.  I might try to make up the posts that I skipped, but probably not, unless I end up with lots of free time somehow. 
This also means that I made literally 0 progress on the great webcomic catch-up of 2016-2017 these past 2 months. 

New Year's Resolutions 2017

• Write 3 blog posts each month:  I'm sticking with 3 this year, since it was a struggle just to keep to that many last year.  
• Finish 6 books this year:  I actually totally forgot that I'd even made a book-related resolution last year, until just now when I checked.  
• Do at least 1 blog post on or before the 14th of each month:  This was actually a really good idea from last year that I also totally forgot.  

I'm hoping to actually remember these resolutions this year.  XD

Short Story Announcement

So, the other day, I got an idea into my head.  It was an idea for a short story, so, as happens whenever that happens when I'm not driving, I wrote it down, to write the story itself later.  However, as I was considering fleshing it out, I realized that I could extend it to a longer form of short story.  I've decided that I'll flesh it out first, and then post it as a multi-part short story in September and October. 
Can you handle the suspense?  Does anyone actually read my blog?  Find out next month! 

The Great Webcomic Catch-Up: August 2016 Update

I've been re-working my schedule, and I've decided to make Wednesdays focused on my webcomic catch-up.  I wanted to start that today, but I discovered that August was ending and didn't get a chance to blog this morning. 
I'm considering blogging about the webcomics that I read, though I'm not sure whether using that as a way to blog every week counts as cheating.  The main reason that I'm considering that, though, is to prevent myself from skipping a week, so I'll see what happens there. 
I'll also be integrating my process of setting aside webcomics with this catch-up, since I really do need to set some aside if I'm to get anywhere.
That's all for now.  I'll let you know how it goes next month.  

The Great Webcomic Catch-Up: June 2016 Update

I've got a plan for this whole webcomic catch-up thing with which I've been struggling.  It comes in a few parts: 
1.  Allocate a specific time every day for reading my caught-up webcomics.  
2.  Re-catch-up on my webcomics with which I had previously caught up. 
3.  Create a "temporary drop-list" of webcomics that I'm finding it difficult to catch up. 

I think that that combination can get me where I want to be, at least to start:  Keeping up on the (majority of) webcomics that I follow, so that I don't end up in this webcomic-free doom-spiral like before. 

P.S.:  I'm pushing this month's bonus update to early July, because June's short and July starts with a long weekend. 

Life Update May 2016

There's not going to be a third post this month.  I was planning to blog last week, actually, but a bit of a crisis came up.  Don't worry, I'm safe, but I'm trying to help some friends of mine in real life, and things have been a bit trying of late.  I was going to write a sudden short story last week, actually, but I really haven't been in the mood for it lately. 
A bit of a clarification on that:  For the past ... few years, really, I've almost never written a sudden short story truly suddenly, usually because I'm far, far away from the keyboard when I think of it, so I jot down a note and actually write the story a bit later.  For instance, I have a sudden short story note written down right now, but I won't be getting to it this week. 
But, yes, expect 4 posts next month, since I'll be making up this month's missed post. 

New Year's Resolutions 2016

• Write 3 blog posts each month:  I'm going back down to 3 this year, so that I can get more done.  
• Finish 12 books this year:  I've actually got 4 books half-finished right now, which is why I set the goal so high, and specified "finish".  I'm hoping that this will help me figure out a reading schedule that will itself allow me to get more book reading done, as I do so miss it.  
• Do at least 1 blog post on or before the 14th of the month:  This is something to help me stop stacking these in the last week of the month.  

I might edit this post later if I think of something else, but that's it for now.  

Life Update - December 31st, 2015

If you follow me on twitter, then you may have noticed reduced activity on my part these last two months.  This is largely due to the holidays and some work-related stuff.  I've also been finding, though, that I've been getting more done lately real-life-wise.  I was a bit surprised today, though, to realize that it was already the 31st, though that's partly because some things came up at the last minute this past week that have messed with my schedule a bit. 
Look forward to a new year's resolution post later today.  Also, I've got a story seed that I'll be mulling over in my head while I go run an errand. 
Long-term, I'll probably be less active a little while longer, at least while I get some other aspects of my life lined up a bit better. 

No 4th Post

Due to an emergency, there will be no 4th post in November.  I can't guarantee that it will be made up in December. 

Life Update - October 31st, 2015

So, life's been busy these last few months, as expected.  Nothing's any farther off track than it was before, but I haven't gained much ground, either.  I'm not expecting to get back to Minecraft before 2016, and the great webcomic catch-up is only becoming a bigger obstacle, but there's not much that I can do about that at the moment.  Oh well. 

Also:  Happy Halloween! 

Life Update - August 31st, 2015

OK, so, I keep forgetting to do Flash Fiction Friday.  Sorry about that.  Also, life's about to get even busier than it has been for the next 2 months, so I really don't know when I'll get back to anything from before. 
I keep thinking that I'd like to finish what I was doing in Minecraft - which I'm sure is many more versions out of date by now - and there's so much more, too, like the great webcomic catch-up, but life's been so busy that I really don't know when any of this will land.  Hopefully, I'll be able to shake everything out and finally get things back to normal. 

Update Update May 31st, 2015

Due to circumstances far, far, far beyond my control, I have to make this my 4th post in May, and I have to move the fifth and sixths posts to being in June, instead of in May. 
I can't give much detail, unfortunately, but I am committed to getting those extra/make-up posts in as soon as possible. 

Life Update May 2015

So, once again, I completely forgot about blogging for most of the month.  I remembered earlier this week, but I didn't get to it until now.  I did manage to remember, earlier in the month, while at work, to jot down some sudden short story notes, because they popped into my head, so I'll crank those out tonight.  I need to double-check, but I think that I have 4, which should cover 4 of the remaining 5 posts for this month. 
I've also got a big thing happening this coming week.  I'll say more after it happens.  

Life Update April 2015

So, life's crazy right now.  I've still got that move coming up (it got delayed somewhat), so I haven't really had a chance to think this month.  I'm going to defer one of this month's posts to May, in addition to the one from March, so May will have 6 posts. 
Oh, and, probably related to the above, I totally forgot about that whole Flash Fiction Friday thing, so there's that.  Well, I've got notes scribbled down for a story, so I'll write that tonight. 
More info after the move!  @_@

I Owe You a Post

I'm going to put a bonus post in either April or May (not sure yet - depends on life stuff) to make up for the lack of a proper 4th post now.  Normally, I wouldn't do this, but I've got way too much IRL stuff to worry about that now. 

Life Update March 2015

So here I am, updating on the last day of the month again.  It kind of snuck up on me this time, actually.  I've got a ton of stuff going on in real life.  I don't want to get too much into the details, but at some point coming soon I have both travel and an actual move, so I've been super busy preparing.  I do have a short story idea, so I'm going to write that one tonight, and that leaves me with one other blog post to get to my 4 for the month. 
And yes, this also means that most of April's posts won't happen until late April.  :-\

Mythology Progress?

I know that it's been a long-ass time since I wrote on the whole Greek mythology thing, but I thought that I should at least announce that I'm also planning on getting back to it.  I'm not sure how much will get done in March, since, per my previous post, I've got an entertainment focus then, but I'm definitely going to work on it at least a little. 
Sorry for the short post, but it didn't really fit in the previous post. 

Entertainment Plans: March 2015

In case anyone was wondering, I haven't made any Pokémon progress at all lately.  What little time I've spent on the handheld has been on Pokémon shuffle, largely because of its whole heart recharge system.  It's a fine little match-3 game, but I'm not writing to talk about that today.
I realized that, even for my personal entertainment, I won't get anything done unless I specifically set out to to it.  These aren't exactly great aspirations, but I figured that I'd post them here, for what it's worth.  For one thing, I'm hoping to make March be the month that I finally re-play Myst.  For another, I'm hoping to watch some anime.  I haven't watched anime in ages.  I've got one on loan, and I'm hoping to watch any one of a short list of other anime.  (Maybe I'll post details once I decide what to watch.)  Furthermore, in addition to those, I saw the first few episodes of Gankutsuou AGES ago, and saw them again slightly fewer ages ago, but I figure that I can set aside some time and actually watch the whole thing.  (For the curious, Gankutsuou is currently available, both subbed and dubbed, on Funimation's YouTube channel.) 
Oh, and I suppose that I'll have to make some more progress on Pokémon, too.  ;)

New Year's Resolutions 2015

I never got around to finalizing my resolution list for this year, so here it is. 

• 4 blog posts per month - This is still hard, so I'm not increasing it.  
• Flash Fiction Friday, the 3rd Friday of each month (with that Saturday as a backup), starting in February - I totally forgot this month, but I had a scheduling conflict, anyway.  
• Finish first stage of research into Greek mythology - This means something specific to me, but I'm being vague here.  
• Follow my exercise schedule - The schedule itself might change, as needed, but I've got one currently, and so far I'm managing to keep to it.  
• Beat Myst again - OK, I forgot last year, but I definitely want to do it this year.  
• I'm also hoping to beat at least 1 other game in this series.  They're not exactly long, but I've got to get around to doing them.  
• Beat Pokémon OR/AS - This means beating the Elite 4, but I have, like, no progress on this so far.  -_-

The list that you guys get to see is short this year, but I highly expect to get all of them done this year.