Hiatus time again

Look, I'll be as honest as I can. I am going through some very stressful work stuff right now, so I don’t have the drive to focus on anything else besides resolving it. So until this is resolved, I have to take a break. Sorry to anyone who was actually reading my stuff, but being able to earn a living without losing my sanity is naturally a higher priority than a blog.

UPDATE 2/4/26: So the work stress stuff is still present, but thanks to the recent sub-Arctic weather, it's metastasized into home stress. A flooded basement snowballed first into a new water heater, which then led to a new chimney liner... it's a LOT. I don't like to ask for help, but if you've enjoyed anything I've done, here or elsewhere, & wanna cushion the impending blow, I have Ko-Fi, Venmo, or Paypal. I'm in a completely dreadful place, so anything helps at this point. 2026 is shaping up to be the year that breaks me, and I don't want that in the slightest.

Sunday Sampler: Real Adventures Edition

Sunday Samplers are a “lightning round” of different subjects, none of which really warrant a full post, that have popped into my head over the course of the past week. They may or may not be regular weekly posts.

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I’ve been threatening y’all with more nerd shit rants instead of general life stuff. So consider yourself warned, we’re gonna be talking about one of my big five influences, the 90s Jonny Quest reboot series.

Sunday Sampler: September Never Ends Edition

Sunday Samplers are a “lightning round” of different subjects, none of which really warrant a full post, that have popped into my head over the course of the past week. They may or may not be regular weekly posts.

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Sunday Sampler: Mandatory Year-End Wrap-Up Edition

Sunday Samplers are a “lightning round” of different subjects, none of which really warrant a full post, that have popped into my head over the course of the past week. They may or may not be regular weekly posts.

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Back in college, in what would eventually become the breakdown year, there was a person who closed out the fall semester by decorating her dorm room door with wrapping paper. It was rather plain paper, so she had written on it, “A long December, and there’s reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.” Hopefully you get the song reference. Even then, it felt rather… teen-angsty, and come spring & the breakdown, it felt downright mocking.

But damn if it hasn’t become a MOOD in adulthood. And somehow, it’s become more mocking than it was when I was scream-crying in a dorm room corner.

I genuinely can’t think of a time when I’ve looked back on a year and thought that it had been a good year. But 2025 has been an exceptionally bad year. It was a year where people were endlessly disappointing, and every bit of brightness that could possibly bring me a shred of joy was dimmed by overwhelming forces around it. This was the year of finally going cold turkey on social media, of losing therapists through no fault of my own, and of feeling like I can never just do my job & always have to be on alert. This was the year where, as much as I want to share my original fiction, I realized that no one really wants to bother with it, so there’s zero real point in sharing it. The year where moral hypocrisy & self-diagnosis combined to reach a breaking point. The year where everything cost more while offering less, often without giving you a heads-up first. The year where MY FAVORITE FUCKING STORE CLOSED, and absolutely nothing has been able to fill that void, only making the absence hurt more.

Sunday Sampler: Holiday Interregnum Rest Week Edition

No Sunday Sampler this week. A quick glance at a calendar should show why that is.

Working on doing a end-of-year review of highs & lows to go up on the 3rd. The way this year has gone, I don't trust it not to try for one more sucker punch before its exit, so I better give it a buffer.

Hopefully I'll see you then. And hoping 2026 is at least a tiny bit better.

Season's Greetings!

Nothing to add, really. A Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

Mark Evanier is correct, this is the loveliest Christmas ad ever made.

Sunday Sampler: Tis The Season for Skipping Edition

Yeah, sorry, having another skip week. Cleaning, wrapping, figuring out why stuff that should have shipped by now hasn't, entertaining a person who refuses to do anything to treat their depression besides rely on me to entertain them... 

Christmas kinda sucks once you're an adult, not gonna lie.

Probably won't have anything ready till the new year. So take care of yourselves till then.