Because things have changed a bit since
my previous post.
When I wrote that last post and let it
autopost on Monday, I was still not certain if I'd be working at both
my jobs this week. If I had, it would have been the third straight
without a day off. Fortunately, I wound up getting the Tuesday just
prior to posting this off, which is something I am very grateful for.
I needed a day off rather badly at that point, and I owe my boss
Danielle at Dynamic 605 a
very big thank you for that. It gave me a chance to rest, clear my
head, and actually think about a few things I've had on my mind
lately.
The biggest, and oddly enough, perhaps
least important one right now is the Final Fantasy 8 Text Play. For
reasons I'll get more into in a more appropriately-titled post, I've
decided that it's just time to call the remainder of it off. The
short version is that I just don't feel compelled to continue playing
the game, at least in terms of blogging my way through it. I may yet
finish the game entirely on my own, just to say that I have, but I
see no point in dragging whatever audience I may still have for that
along for a ride that's already gone on way too long as is when I
can't say for sure when it's going to end. I'll expand on that and
where I might go with the Text Play series in the actual issue I
intend to start writing as soon as I get this posted.
Another thing that's on my mind is my
health in general. Even if I've not made a terribly big deal of my
weight in the years I've been doing this, I don't recall having kept
it a terribly big secret, either. I've been having some noticeable
health issues recently, and there's little doubt that my weight is
the focal point for them. I've had some success in the past at
getting my weight down, but I fell off that particular swing awhile
ago now, and I've had a little trouble getting back on again, to the
point where lately, things may actually have been getting worse in
that regard. I know what I need to do to get things turned back
around, which is good. Even better is that I don't think I really
need to spend money on something I'm not already. I just need to get
it in my head that I've got somebody beyond just myself and my
immediate family to whom I'm accountable for on this. It's not so
much that we're a bad bunch of people or anything, mind you. It's
just that if keeping this amongst us was working out all that well,
there's a good chance I wouldn't be in the spot I'm in right now.
As for everything else, I think I'll
get that figured out when we get to March. It's still a week or so
away, and I'm not entirely sure of what's going to happen between now
and then. Regardless, I'm going to stick with the plan I wrote about
on Monday. If I've got a little proper time off between now and
then, I'm going to need to use it to get my head straightened out the
rest of the way, because it's still not quite where it needs to be.
I'd like to think that's going to happen, but the way things have
been going, there are doubts.
What that means, for now, is that aside
from the wrap-up post for Final Fantasy 8, I'm still taking some time
off from the gaming blogs and the podcasting. The plan for getting
back to that is still early March, with details being posted as I get
them worked out.
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