Home Stretch??????

The work thing I am anxious about has been adjusted so I have less time to prepare and I am now more anxious! Very cool! It's going to be fine really. I do this every single year and it's always fine in the end, but until it's fine I will be anxious.

Haven't been doing much more than distracting myself about the work thing because of this. I did start watching a short anime called Barakamon. It's a slice of life show about a shodo (Calligraphy) master who has a bit of a crisis of confidence and retreats to a rural island town down south. There are a lot of gags about old technology, nosy neighbors, and swarms of local kids with no sense of personal space teaching the poor main character the joys of pulling his stick out of his ass and having some fun with life. It's cute, kind of dumb, but fun. It was recommended to me because the language has some pretty heavy accents, so it didn't work out very well as a study tool considering I could barely understand what everyone was saying. The accents were as interesting as promised though.

I haven't had much time for doing anything else. Tried to steal a few hours to play VNs since I'm well behind on that, got over my rage moment with Lost Ark and am chilling a little more about that. I've dropped my play time down significantly but still managed to get exactly one run in with the current content (Valtan) before the patch that opens up the new current content lol. Valtan is also a lot more reasonable than Argos but at the same time the next tier of gear means I need to spend time researching optimization, and I both don't have the time, or the desire to do the thing that I hate the absolute most in all of videogaming, which is number crunching and homework. I want flashing lights and twitching gameplay. Not spreadsheets!

Nothing much else is going on except, you know, the crushing weight of the country collapsing down upon us. I'm not sure if knowing we haven't hit the nadir yet is a good or a bad thing.

Anyway, once the work thing is over I'm hoping I get a little more active again and have some time to nerd out more and read mutual posts more closely.