About the Blog Hiatus

If you’re a regular reader of the blog, you’ll note that things have been a bit sparse on here the last week. I really had intended to be blogging regularly again when I was back from my vacation, and I started off well, but the past while, I’ve had some personal issues I’ve been dealing with that have been taking the bulk of my attention and will to blog. I’m fine, and Denisa and the kids are all fine, but I’m down in PA for the next while, and I don’t really feel comfortable saying why. Sorry to vaguepost, but there it is.

So I might be able to hop on here now and then to do a movie review, but I don’t have the mental bandwidth at the moment to tackle much more than that, or to commit to posting more regularly. Not that I haven’t been following along with what folks are doing online, or with the current events happening, but it’s one thing to lurk and follow, and another to create content.

Thanks for your understanding. Believe me: I’m looking forward to getting back to a routine again sometime. But for the moment, at least, it seems like there are a lot of things standing in the way of me and that. It feels like it’s been that way since March 2020, and looking into the future, I don’t see a high likelihood of it feeling any different for the next few months . . .

In any case, I’ll update you when I can. Have a great end of your summer, folks.

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Some Time Away

I hate to do this, because I really do enjoy the blog, but I’ve got a few things going on in my personal life at the moment that are stretching me quite thin. For the sake of my mental health, I’m going to step away from the blog for the next bit. I hope to be back to blogging soon, but hopefully you can get by without me for the next bit. (I’ve already skipped Monday and Tuesday this week, so maybe you’re already a bit used to it . . .)

So Much Time and So Little To Do

Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.

I’m really starting to stress at everything that needs to happen in the next month or so. Stressing to the point that I’m making multiple lists to try and remind myself that I’m really making progress on getting things done. It’s not really working, which is why I end up making even more lists. I’m not sure what the logic is there, but right this second, I don’t think I’m thinking very logically.

So I’m in jettison mode, and for today, one of the things getting jettisoned is a quality blog post. Instead, I leave you with this fine clip of Oompa-Loompas lecturing you about how you ought to behave. I think a lot of life’s woes could probably be reduced if we just had a team of Oompa-Loompas around to shame-sing at us whenever we made big blunders. (Seriously. Can you imagine the sort of song routines they would have come up with for the entirety of 2020?)

Here’s hoping tomorrow’s brighter.

I Can’t Even

Sorry everybody. I just have too much to do today, and my stress levels aren’t leaving me time and attention to focus on a blog post. So instead, I’ll present you with a bit of Tim Conway and Don Knotts awesome. The gas station scene from Private Eyes. It’s a longtime favorite of mine, and helps take some of the bitter aftertaste of Apple Dumpling Gang: Electric Boogaloo out of my mind.

Hopefully tomorrow is better . . .

Deer Reparations and Sundry Busy-ness

Some days you’re firing on all cylinders, the king of your schedule, and other days, you wonder how in the world you’re ever going to get everything done. (And where did all those items on your To Do list come from in the first place?)

Today is one of those crazy busy days.

On the good news front, I finally took my car in to get repaired from the deer incident over a month ago. (I still had the hunk of deer fur wedged into the fender, because if I have to drive around with a broken headlight for a month, I at least want a public warning posted for any deer that are considering another attack on my vehicle.) It’s been a minor irritant, having to remember to drive Denisa’s car at night, since mine had a tendency to get me pulled over . . .

What else is happening in my life? Adulting. A whole bucketload of adulting. I don’t know when it happened that I suddenly was expected to be the responsible person in the room most of the time, but it seems like the other day I woke up, and everyone else had nominated me and voted me into that position.

So my apologies for having nothing scintillating for you today. I’m barely keeping my nose above water. (Note how late this is finally getting posted. I’d planned to write on my lunch break, but my lunch break ended up having other plans.) As an apology of sorts, I present to you a clip of one of my favorite movies. Ferris Bueller. Because today was very much a day I wish I could have called in sick. Not because of anything terrible going on. Just because I’d rather be out having fun on a gorgeous day.

Happy Monday, everyone!

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Like what you’ve read? Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Thanks to all my Patrons who support me! It only takes a minute or two, and then it’s automatic from there on out. I’ve posted the entirety of my book ICHABOD in installments, and I’m now putting up chapters from PAWN OF THE DEAD, another of my unreleased books. Where else are you going to get the undead and muppets all in the same YA package? Check it out.

If you’d rather not sign up for Patreon, you can also support the site by clicking the MEMORY THIEF Amazon link on the right of the page. That will take you to Amazon, where you can buy my books or anything else. During that visit, a portion of your purchase will go to me. It won’t cost you anything extra.