Life Update October 2016

OK, I hate to be making a life update here, but here we go.  I'm looking ahead at November and December, and, while things look busy, nothing looks bad so far.  I expect to make 3 proper posts in November, and then make some extra posts in December, for the sake of my loyal reader.  :P  For the moment, though, I'm off to finish off my October in a Halloweenish way:  by watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and going to bed to be ready for the next work day. 

Video Game Update October 2016

So, recently, I dug up Minecraft.  It turns out that I haven't played in about 2 years.  I had to spend a fair amount of time trying to remember what I was doing in that world, but I was starting to get back into the swing of things.  Unfortunately, I got smashed by a bunch of mobs while I was trying to re-explore a cave, and I had no idea where I was, so I think that everything de-spawned by the time that I got to what I suspect was the general area of my death.  I also hadn't made a new backup since 2 years ago, so I'll be starting over; thankfully, I hadn't done much real work, so re-doing what I'd done won't be too bad. 

Webcomic Catch-Up Update: October 2016

I didn't do much webcomic catch-up this month, but I expected that, given a bunch of real life.  I'll try to do more catching up in the coming months, but that'll be harder with the upcoming holidays. 

Little Vampires:  I caught up through October 28, 2016, "Happy Halloween from Portmonster".  Hooray! 
Girls Don't Play Games:  I don't remember this one that well, but, when I checked on it earlier this month, the site was being revamped, so I couldn't access the archive, anyway. 
Real Life Comics:  It looks like this one died in late 2015, but I haven't caught up with the archive yet, either.  I'm pretty sure that I'm re-treading some stuff, but I don't remember where exactly I left off; I'm caught up through January 31, 2013. 

Life Update September 2016

I'm just going to be blunt here.  This month has sucked.  I've had some rather considerable problems in real life.  I'd rather not get into the details, but I'm not going to be making the posts that I expected this month.  Things are on track to get better, but I won't know for sure until early October.  I'll see if I can hammer out a third post tomorrow, but I make no promises. 

Webcomic Catch-Up Update: September 2016

FYI, I've made some progress on catching up on webcomics.  I figure that I'll make these monthly reports, since I didn't get through many this month.  This will also be as much for my own reference as anything.  Here we go: 

The Unspeakable Vault of Doom:  I caught up through vault 544.  Overall, the comic's OK.  It makes more sense as one comic of many that I read, and I think that it's the only comic dedicated to Lovecraftian humor that I had on my list. 
The Book of Biff:  I caught up through the latest episode, which was some time in 2014.  I've moved it from active to hiatused. 
xkcd:  I caught up through episode 1739:  Fixing Problems.  This comic has gotten better over the years, or maybe it's just accumulated more gems in its long run.

Little Vampires:  I only started catching up on this one.  I don't remember exactly where I left off on my previous catch-up, so I started at the beginning of the Welcome to Monsterdell arc. 

I'll let you guys know how this goes next month. 

Sudden Short Story 113

"I need to get back," he said. 
"Get back where?" asked the nurse as she jotted something down on his chart. 
"Maybe," he said, groggily, "maybe I need more sleep." 
"Mm-hmm," replied the nurse, "Well, you came back clean, so we'll have to discharge you.  The best I can do is turn out the lights and close the blinds until I finish your paperwork." 
"Yes, please," he replied, barely keeping his eyes open as his head rolled around. 
She closed the curtains and turned out the lights on her way out.  He knew that he didn't have long.  He rested his eyes for just a bit.  He needed to rest in reality while he could, but he had to get back. 
Luckily, the nurse knocked just before she opened the door, waking him up.  He fell into a shadow just before she flipped on the light switch, though he accidentally took the bed sheet with him. 

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!