Lo, yon blog has lain fallow for many moons!
Many things have contributed to my lamented (or celebrated) absence from the web in general and this blog specifically for a while.The primary culprits are my job and a total hard drive crash back in July.
My job is a late shift but the time off before I go in is not like time off after work. I cannot relax and focus on cool projects, as was possible when coming home after work with 6 hours or so until bedtime.
Yeah, yeah, first world problems.
The hard drive crash had a more seriously impact on posting, of course, as it rendered doing so impossible. I lost a tremendous amount of data, and have still not decided how I am going to recover it. All of the companies that perform data recovery are incredibly expensive. I understand why, but it doesn’t make it any more doable at the moment.
Beyond the personal stuff lost was most of the Greywater Chronicles data. I do have the raw data from the first 10 issues, but 11-26 and 27 (which was just about done after a long break from gaming) was lost. Backing up data is essential, and I failed to do it.
I have thought about redoing issue 27, but there was a great (and heart-breaking) battle, and it would be tough to re-play or re-stage it. Some good scenes were lost, too.
So I need to recover the data. The most likely company, SalvageData, gave an initial quote of between 700 and 2000 dollars. They’ll give an exact quote when I mail the hard drive to them. It will be a while before I have that extra money, so it will likely be some time until Greywater resumes.
Also, much of the fiction I have read lately has been uninspiring, or good but marred by other things, and i just haven’t felt like writing about it. I won’t go into it right now. I just recently got my copy of the most recent Tales From The Magician’s Skull, and it has some good stuff. I’ll do a review in another week or so.
As far as writing fiction, I have a pretty strong idea for a novel in a unique setting, but am dealing with some lethargy and lack of time. I am working on my music, as well, and that takes up a chunk of my essence. There just isn’t enough time, so you have to make do with what you have.
That will include a return to semi-regular posting. I did receive a pretty cool bounty recently in the form of a stash of a couple of hundred figures from some dude who had been gaming in the mid-2000’s. His mother was cleaning out the house and gave them to a friend of mine, who passed them onto me. Most are sci fi figs, with a scattering of fantasy, and they are mostly 32mm rather than my 25mm scale, but maybe I’ll start a Sword & Blaster comic with them. Something to stretch my creative juices in story-telling again.
I’ve rambled long enough without a true point. This post is just to say that I am coming back to more regular (and hopefully more coherent) posting.
I hope you’ve all been well! Talk to you soon.