Here are a few thoughts and ideas I
hope will help me get bact to posting more often again.
Gotta say, 2017 really has been a
screwball year for me, especially the last half. I'd like to say
there's an end in sight, but there's really not yet, which only makes
things worse.
As I look back on it with a little less
than a month left of the year, I guess I could see things going weird
on me when I wound up on jury duty in March. It's a good thing that
only lasted a month, but that's a month that kinda foretold a year of
changes that hasn't ended yet. I'm really not sure when or even if I
can talk publicly about the experience, so for now, at least, I'll
hold off, for the most part, aside from summing up that it's kind of
like going to Disney World. Glad I was given the opportunity to do
it once, but now that I have, one time is plenty for me. Beyond
that, I'll give it a little more time before doing a standalone post
about it.
There's some other stuff that I'll
acknowledge is going on but will still be holding off on for awhile
yet, as well. I'd like to think there'll be a time when I can get to
it, but I'm not entirely sure of if or when that might be right now,
either.
That leads us to the more positive
things I wanted to get to this time out. As I said before the jump,
I'd kind of like to get back to posting more regularly again. I
hardly expect to post like I did back in 2012 because I had time,
motivation, and ideas in quantities I don't really anymore. This is
not to say I'm completely out of any of those things, either, as I do
seem to be able to get things ready for my usual “press time” of
8:30 AM US Central time, even if it means staying up later than I
should to get it done on an all too regular basis.
On this particular night, the ideas
that came to me did so while I was acting under the influence of a
character I've come to call “Darth Figety”, who tends to spend
quite a bit of time with other folks I know. Genreally speaking, my
buddy Figety and the restlessness he brings is something of a bother,
but in this case, I'm hoping the stack of ideas that came with the
bout of restlessness I had tonight will be a good thing.
The thing I'm going to lead off with is
actually an idea I'd meant to make a post about awhile ago and never
quite got to. I've been meaning to get back to doing regular live
streams on my uStream channel again, as it's actually one of the main
reasons I got a webcam in the first place, along with the YouTube
videos I make from time to time. Thing is, though, I need to set
aside the time to do it if I want to make that happen. Right now,
I'm thinking Tuesday nights, since I have Wednesdays off from my day
job and will have a day to rest after, but I'll get to the details
later. Hopefully not too much later, of course, because the sooner I
get started on that the better.
More of the ideas I realized I could do
something with came to me as I was shuffling through a box of stuff
under my living room table. One was that a few years back, I did a
brief series here called “Games Maybe I Should Try”, in which I
mulled over trying Playstation 2 titles like Sly Cooper and the
Thevius Raccoonis and
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.
I still have the copies of those games that either came with the
system when I bought it from an Internet buddy or I happened across
later. It's about time I got around to actually trying them and
giving impressions of them. In some cases, they won't be initial
impressions, as I've played parts of them before, but it's been
awhile.
Another
thing I might be able to do something with is the stack of Channel
Awesome/That Guy With The Glasses DVDs I bought back when they were
still doing that sort of thing. I know I've got Kickassia,
That Guy With The Glasses Volume 1,
and Nostalgia Critic Reloaded
for sure, and I could have sworn I had a factory-sealed copy of TGWTG
Vol. 2 somewhere, as well. I
remember being excited enough about this stuff when I first started
buying it that I even watched the DVD of Kickassia with my
grandmother after I bought it. It'll be interesting to see if I feel
the same way about it after all this time, and maybe to discover why
my interest waned enough to not even have opened one of the DVD cases
at all.
There's
also the VHS collection I've been meaning to do reviews of for years
and maybe should finally get around to. I'm not saying anything will
come of this particular idea, of course, because I've been talking
about if for years and still have yet to make it happen. At the same
time, maybe getting on with some of this other stuff will help me get
on with that, as well. Just lightening my inventory a bit might help
me solve a few other problems and worries I've got going on right
now.
The
one idea I might actually start with involves a CD I bought almost 20
years ago. It's this thing I picked up as something of a souvinere
from one of the summers I worked at Mt. Rushmore when I was in
college. With that in mind, I should say it's not what one might
think. It's actually some music meant to help calm one's nerves,
which is something that I actually kind of need, being a
higher-strung person than a lot of folks might realize. It's an
interesting story that I look forward to telling, and I'm sure
there'll be a few people who might be interested in the music as
well.
But
anyway, since I've had the CD I was just talking about playing and it
just finished, I think I'll wrap this up for now. There's a couple
more ideas I've got, but I want to think about them a bit more before
I say stuff about them. I also need to get my sleep schedule
straightened out a bit, which means getting to bed in the next little
bit here, while my nerves are still relatively calm and it's earlier
than I've been sacking out.
So
until I get a chance to do another proper post, good night, good
morning, and have a nice day!
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