Yikes. I only recently realized that it's been more than a year since I've posted here – 2018 quite literally passed me by – so I figured I'd give a short(ish) update.
I spent the first half of last year in various temp roles, and as of Q4 2018 I accepted a full-time administrative and program support position at a local college that is keeping me very busy. It's involved and, at times, gratifying work, and I believe that it is a position that I can really grow into and which will benefit from my combination of admin and technical expertise, but it has had the unfortunate side effect of reducing my time (and certainly my mental capacity) for writing.
The longer-term plan remains the same, but for right now most of my part-time writing efforts are focused on two things: worldbuilding and outlining work for the RW project, and an unrelated experimental side project that I hope to have generating a modest income stream by Q2 of this year if I keep going at my current rate. I don't plan on talking about the specifics of unrelated side projects here, but they are things that both "keep me writing" and provide a lower-stakes environment to hone my craft while I continue developing the RW universe in parallel.
I've also (re)read some series and (of course) played plenty of games over the last year and change, so I plan to comment on those experiences periodically as well – partially as an enjoyable diversion as brainpower allows, but also because I'd like this site to be more than just abstract musings on my (eventual) writing and related projects. I feel very passionately about my hobbies, and this is as good a place as any to get down in weeds and talk shop about movies, games, books, culture, politics, IT, and anything else that stokes my interest or imagination.
Other than all that, I hope to know within the next couple months if my SO and I will be in this area longer-term. If so, we'll need to start looking for a permanent home here; if not, we'll have to figure out where the next big move will be to, and then triage from there.
Either way, once we both have stable long-term employment and residency, I'll probably share some of my plans for the next big rebuilds of our respective gaming machines. They've had a good run, but systems largely built from 2012/2013-era parts are starting to feel their age, even with the occasional GPU and SSD upgrade thrown in there to keep the wolves of lower-IPC and increasingly ancient DDR3 at bay. I'm eyeing the Ryzen 3 chips that AMD announced at CES this year, although I'd like to see that the new silicon is largely free of the teething issues that plagued Ryzen's first-gen parts and motherboards before taking the plunge. I've wanted to part ways with Intel processors for a while now, but later-gen Ryzen is the first time since my beloved Athlon 64 chips of old that AMD has really felt like a viable alternative again, so my tentative plan is to return to Team Red for the next cycle (minus my recent splurge on a discounted RTX 2070, of course).
So I guess this wasn't really short at all, but I wanted to get back on the blogging horse before January slipped away. Mission accomplished. Orbital HQ, out.
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