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2025... oh dear.

So I finally finished peak at Amazon for 2024. It's six or so weeks of busy busy busy but tonight is the last night of it so things should be better. I have deep concerns for the upcoming year, b...

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Where's Somber?

So long story short, 2024 has been a lot. I went to Everfree in July, and seemed to anger some primordial god for an unknown transgression. I've had covid, heart and blood pressure issues, and an...

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I live! Also, Moving, Everfree, and Homelands.

So June was okay. Got the new FF14 expansion. Highly recommend. They laid out a good starting path for the next arc of the game. Also finally finished the next chapter of Homelands. I'm going ...

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Arias Chapter 6 vote

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qVd5To38MTj94Emxn9Vd7YyuG3_c...

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Arias Chapter 5

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bnxIRP8PhfMZs6qSFta2KJHyTTT9...

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May day.. may day...

Sorry things have been a quiet mess. April I was hoping to find a place and move. That melted down. Then the IRS came with a nastygram and wiped out 2000 dollars. Then I got sick and turned 45 and....

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Arias Story Chapter 4

So a little more progress on Arias, Chapter 4, and another choice for folks on how the Mire develops.

In other news, I'm in the process of moving and trying to land a promotion.  I have ...

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Is Somber dead?

No, I'm not dead.  I got through peak with great difficulty due to work putting me in a rather onerous position.  Basically, I keep the robots at the warehouse running, so if something fa...

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Just a heads up...

I'm alive, just getting hammered by work.

Ciderfest was amazing.  It was great to meet so many new people and got to do some great panels.  Sadly, they weren't recorded like I thoug...

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RIP Panda and Ciderfest

So Panda Bear died on the 30th.  It was pretty hard but when the vet told me she had kidney failure there wasn't much point in prolonging it.  She was my baby, and it's hard coming home a...

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Cause I want to start writing things again.

So August and September happened.  My car got hit.  I've been dealing with cluster headaches.  The medicine for the headaches is knocking me out way more than usual.  My depress...

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Well June (and July) happened... and it wasn't terrible?

So goodish news.  Nothing bad happened in June besides a root canal and nothing bad happened in July besides a strained leg.  I feel like 2023 is trying to lure me into a sense of complac...

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May day... May day...

So a little good news and mostly meh news.  Good news is that I got trained to do the robots job.  It's actually not that hard.  When the robots mess up or something messes up the ro...

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My hand is broken.

Okay, not broken, but they're not working well at all.  Since working at Amazon I've been noticing an increasing stiffness in the fingers of the right hand.  It's gotten so bad that I've ...

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Writing attempt 3.14.23 <arclight>

This is a story that's been in my head a little.  I'm trying to get back in the habit of writing at all, so this is just a snippit.  Hopefully it can get me back in the mode of writing da...

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Undefeated!

Okay.  So I finally have 2023... maybe not resolved but going in the direction I want...  so I can tell you what a nightmare February was.

So at the end of January, I was fired with...

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2023 is off to a great start... /s

So January started off okay.  Peak ended.  I didn't get any notifications I was going to be fired.  I was working hard to demonstrate I'm a good Amazon employee and trying to get tha...

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Isekai Ch 3 vote 3

I took a deep breath, glancing at Yune and Taght.  I wanted to be an adventurer so I could be safe and maybe find some way back home.  At the very least, try to fix this body I’d been s...

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Chapter 3 choice #2

No.  If I was going to pull this off, I needed friends.  Sonna was the first person that was more or less my age who I might have something with.  At the very least, she didn’t cal...

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Isekei chapter 3

Over the next three months, I learned.  That was something that you generally didn’t see.  Whatever world the hero went too, however odd it might be, the hero learned the important bits...

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I roll to dodge 2022... I rolled a 12.

Fortunately the DC was 12.  So I made it by the skin of my teeth.  December and peak was rough.  The job itself is pretty simple.  Take things and put in box.  It's just a ...

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Worst november ever.

Normally I look forward to November.  There's nanowrimo.  There's thanksgiving.  There's... well that's about it, but it's rarely a bad month for me.  This month though...

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November is make or break...

I'm struggling severely, with mental health, dog, car, and money.  I'm sorry.  I wish I had my stuff together better.  I'm working nights at Amazon now.  I don't know how long. ...

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Isekai 2.1

You don’t know anything, Akira.  Nothing at all.  I hated to admit it, but this wasn’t some Isekai where I’d be marched up in front of the king and given the plot in the fi...

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Isekei vote chapter 2

Chapter 2

The darkmarket stunk.  Isekais never stank.  Some how, if they mentioned smells at all, it was usually some sort of exotic cooking.  This place stank of too many peop...

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Isekai 0.3

This was turning into the worst isekei ever.  I needed a breather.  A chance to process everything.  What, ultimately, was the point of my being here?  Who’s body did that voi...

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Isekei Story idea 0.2

I’d been shot.  Killed.  Murdered.  Why?  Because I tried to help someone?  Did I have family?  Was I being mourned?  Forgotten?  Who was I?

I drew s...

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Isekai Story Idea

Hey, what are you doing?

Get away from them!

Help!

BANG!  BANG BANG!

Fucking faggot...

BANG!!

...

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Anyone get the number of that month that ran me over?

So September was started with dreams and asperations and ended with me crushed under reality.  The good news is I got a job at the post office.  It's good pay for my area, has benefits, a...

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Blargh! Also, RP system thing.

So some folks on discord know I'm trying to get on with Amazon.  My drug test was botched so I had to reapply.  In the meantime I'm trying to get my brain on daytime sleep cycles.  S...

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