It's been awhile
12 Jul 2018 03:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trysdynI've been busy I suppose. I last rambled here in mid-March, when I finished my playthrough of the Deep Dungeon series. I thought then I was done with RPGs on my stream, but then I got bitten by both the Pokemon and the Etrian Odyssey bug, as well as tangoing with a little game called The Dark Spire.
I may do a write-up on those at some point but not tonight. Maybe tonight I just wanted to braindump, to catch up with the 0 people who I suspect read this. To put my thoughts in order.
Shortly after my last post, my job went rather unstable. I'd been given a temporary contract pursuant to my company being purchased by a larger entity and was rather unhappy with the culture in the new organization, so I put feelers out for other employment. I took a job closer to home, doing more engineering-related work than my old operations gig.
The job change has been a trade-off. I gave up a rather easy, boring job in a corporate culture I liked for a far more difficult, far more engaging position but within a corporate culture I dislike. It's not often I go a workday without missing the old place and my old team, but the problems I'm solving here are interesting and challenging. I can't say for sure I'm happier or not; I at least feel like I'm getting more done?
Unfortunately the new job comes with the rather steep price of my free time. At the old job I was essentially working from home almost every day, on my own schedule. That's not quite acceptable now, and I've had some difficulty transitioning back to the 9-5 world. I used to be the person available to do events, marathons, etc at any hour of the day but now I'm experiencing a time crunch trying to fit in all I used to do in fewer hours, and more constrained ones at that.
With what time I have, I've signed up to run in the Handheld Heroes marathon this coming weekend; Hachiemon is finally getting its debut in a marathon. After that, I've done the unwise thing of submitting five runs to Big Bad Game-a-thon 2018. I wrote, at length, about how awesome BBG was last year; I'm hoping it's just as great this year. Unfortunately I'm unsure if I'll be able to be present 24/7 for it this year like I was last. It's over the weekend, so maybe.
Finally, after SGDQ, I'm rather confident I want to go to AGDQ 2019. I'm so confident in this I've already started making plans-- but we'll see if I chicken out AGAIN before signup time.
Between Handheld Heroes and BBG, I want to find another obscure gem to delve into casually. I miss the experience of Deep Dungeon. Even though it was arguably quite bad, it was new and fresh to me, and was a joy to explore. Dark Spire was a joy too, and I deeply regret I can't go back and play it again from the beginning.
I may do a write-up on those at some point but not tonight. Maybe tonight I just wanted to braindump, to catch up with the 0 people who I suspect read this. To put my thoughts in order.
Shortly after my last post, my job went rather unstable. I'd been given a temporary contract pursuant to my company being purchased by a larger entity and was rather unhappy with the culture in the new organization, so I put feelers out for other employment. I took a job closer to home, doing more engineering-related work than my old operations gig.
The job change has been a trade-off. I gave up a rather easy, boring job in a corporate culture I liked for a far more difficult, far more engaging position but within a corporate culture I dislike. It's not often I go a workday without missing the old place and my old team, but the problems I'm solving here are interesting and challenging. I can't say for sure I'm happier or not; I at least feel like I'm getting more done?
Unfortunately the new job comes with the rather steep price of my free time. At the old job I was essentially working from home almost every day, on my own schedule. That's not quite acceptable now, and I've had some difficulty transitioning back to the 9-5 world. I used to be the person available to do events, marathons, etc at any hour of the day but now I'm experiencing a time crunch trying to fit in all I used to do in fewer hours, and more constrained ones at that.
With what time I have, I've signed up to run in the Handheld Heroes marathon this coming weekend; Hachiemon is finally getting its debut in a marathon. After that, I've done the unwise thing of submitting five runs to Big Bad Game-a-thon 2018. I wrote, at length, about how awesome BBG was last year; I'm hoping it's just as great this year. Unfortunately I'm unsure if I'll be able to be present 24/7 for it this year like I was last. It's over the weekend, so maybe.
Finally, after SGDQ, I'm rather confident I want to go to AGDQ 2019. I'm so confident in this I've already started making plans-- but we'll see if I chicken out AGAIN before signup time.
Between Handheld Heroes and BBG, I want to find another obscure gem to delve into casually. I miss the experience of Deep Dungeon. Even though it was arguably quite bad, it was new and fresh to me, and was a joy to explore. Dark Spire was a joy too, and I deeply regret I can't go back and play it again from the beginning.
