Well damn. It's been a long while. Seems like that's always the case though.
Things are pretty much exactly the same as they've been for the last decade or so. At least, it feels that way. Maybe only half a decade. I wake up and go to work five days at a time. I come home and drown the rest of existence in the nectar of computers and video games. Sleep. Spend a small portion of the time I have away from work doing just enough to keep myself a 'functioning' adult. Rinse. Float my consciousness in the steam of a hot shower. Repeat.
Taking a break from cleaning this morning to sit down at my computer. It seems I get sidetracked and lost easily when I open the browser out of habit, instead of with a goal in mind. But, this morning it's brought me back to the blog, so that's a plus. I've been neglecting it. Not for lack of things to write. I've been thinking, at least weekly, of more things I want to put into words and spew out into the world, I just haven't actually taken the time to do that. While I'm thinking about it, I want to say that I am reading write.as posts while away from my own blog. Granted, I've fallen behind a bit, but I know inquiry feels like they're just shouting into the void, and to some extent you are, but I'm in that void listening :) Keep shouting. I want to add more to this, but I need to get back to the tasks at hand, and since this is a rambling kind of post, I think my slightly more structured ideas should have their own space. Maybe I'll get back here this afternoon.
Hey! I wanted to make a small addition to my Reading Write.as post. I am in no way saying those are the only good writers on the platform; they aren't. I've read some great stuff by many folks here. Those, in particular, stood out to me.
Also, did you know you can subscribe to any write.as blog via RSS? I know RSS has been around for a long while, but I feel like a lot of people have forgotten about it or don't use it because they are used to 'following' or 'liking' various peoples content through the walled gardens of their social media of choice. Just copy a blog's URL and add it to your RSS reader of choice and you should be good to go. If you're on Android, I recommend Feeder.
I am really enjoying my time here on write.as. Not just the writing aspect, but also the other side of the coin: Reading what others have written. I've been meaning to share a sampling of the writers I've begun to follow, so here it is! In no particular order. . .
Matt is the guy behind write.as! At this time, he's blogging about taking a train trip across the USA, but he also writes about write.as (go figure), the fediverse, and other fun, nerdy stuff.
Last year I started a podcast. I didn't have any high hopes when I started. The original premise was that it was just me and a good friend (we'll call him Tony) shooting the shit and talking about video games. I didn't want it to feel too scripted or structured. I just wanted to hang out and talk about video games, and Tony was about the only friend I thought I had enough 'chemistry' to do some sort of show with and lived in the same town. We actually test recorded an episode in December. We had a blast. We rambled on for almost two hours and ended up talking in circles a bit, but we really had a lot of fun. And that was the point.
I've never paid a lot of attention to keyboards. Not until the past couple of years, and even then, it's been a rare occurrence.
A few years ago, while I was working retail, we needed a new keyboard for one of the work computers. We sold them, so we just opened one up and hooked it up. I remember it because even the limited amount of typing I did felt much better. I think the word I used for it at the time was 'crunchy.'
I am a very private person, but I want to share a few thoughts from something I wrote last night in a journal of sorts. These are snippets, but I feel like they hold enough weight and truth to stand without the surrounding context.
You ever want to write, but when you get down to it you can't find the words. That's where I'm at right now. I've been wanting and meaning to write for about the last two weeks, and now that I've sat down I can't think of anything worth writing. I guess that's the bad thing about my hot cup thoughts. They most often happen during the week shortly after I get to work, as opposed to in the evenings or early in the morning when I can get away with spending time turning thoughts to words and sentences. I'll try to take some time in the next day or two and collect my thoughts a little more, so I can write something more substantial this week.
I've been playing a lot of Destiny 2 over the past days.
I got really into it a month or two ago when it was available for free for a short time. I started off, taking my time while playing through the story missions. I did some exploring, participated in a few public events, put in the work on some bounties for the first few 'planets'. However, the farther into the story I got, the more I just wanted to finish it.
I actually really enjoyed the main storyline. Compared to the first one, it was a world apart. Maybe I'm misremembering Destiny 1, but I had some deep issues with it. We'll save that rant for (possibly) another time. Again, I liked the storyline of D2. Your home is more or less destroyed, and having to regain your strength and take it back was awesome.
Hey there. So, I guess everyone who might read this is seeing it on my Wordpress blog, Hot Cup Thoughts. Which is totally cool! Just wanted to say that I'm trying out a different blogging service and I'm pushing those posts over to Wordpress, for the time being. I don't know if I'll stick to doing things this way, but I really like the writing experience I'm having with Write.as. It's pretty simplistic, but I guess that's the draw. It's my thoughts, fingers, and keyboard just making words appear on a blank white page. Anyway, I wanted to write about it, test that my posts are actually pushing to WP, and then put some more work into some other posts. I've got a few ideas kicking around, and since this space isn't for anything in particular yet, who cares what I write about!