Life

Congratulations to me, I have found another way to transfer wealth from myself to various companies. I am starting a YOUTUBE BOARDGAMING CHANNEL! Yes, you read that correctly, nobody. I have decided that I have a lot of games that I want to play, but my simply playing them on my own in the evening, and then putting them away afterwards, was not rewarding enough. I was feeling as though I had wasted my time. I am aware of the old adage that “time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time”, but that doesn’t ring true for me. ...

It’s been a bad week. My father-in-law died unexpectedly after becoming ill with something fairly minor, which somehow snowballed into something very serious, which resulted in his actual death. Unbelievable. We miss him and have to carry on as best we can. I started storing my Marvel Champions hero cards in little cassette tapes, which looks awesome. I just need to print off some comic book art for the covers and it will be complete. ...

No longer interested in drawing. I still like the idea of being able to draw, but with the amount of time I would have to put into learning how to draw properly and the practice required to improve is too much for me. Guess I need to look into selling most of those books from the previous post. I’ve been thinking a bit more about Retrograde Online. Specifically whether I can actually be bothered. There are so many mobile games out there that do my ideas way better and with graphics. But then that was not the point of it, was it? It was a project to keep me occupied, to learn some more React, and to have ownership of something that others’ could play. Maybe I will continue with it, but I need a re-think about what I am trying to achieve. ...

I started off so well with this blog and Retrograde Online, but as I knew would happen, my interest waned once some of the initial development was done, and I moved onto other things. I started watching some TV shows and films that I never felt I had the motivation to get into, such as For All Mankind, 12 Monkeys (the show), Oppenheimer, The Zone of Interest, Farscape, and Batman (1966 show) to name a few. ...

I’ve created a blog for me to post stuff to. It’s mainly going to be about interesting things I think are worth a mention (and probably many times, even when they are not). I’ve tried to do this sort of thing several times, each iteration of a blog gets slightly better, but never manages to keep my interest beyond the initial work that goes into creating it. This time should be different. I’ve decided to use a static-site generator for this attempt, rather than writing the entire thing from scratch. This way I only have to think about content (so easy) and not about how to actually display it. ...