News from the Editing Room, April 19th

Hello.

Sorry for the late post. Even though it’s just a few minutes after April 19th.

This past week was quiet, except for the Easter holiday at the tail end of it. In fact, here in Italy, it’s still Easter Monday, a holiday. Can you imagine that? I didn’t have to go to work, but rather stayed home and sorted out my clothes for the changing weather. I hope I have enough jackets for Spring rains.

As far as arts are concerned, I have been working, as much as mood allows, on my RPG system, improving tables and details on it. Trying to get it into gear to start some alpha testing. Preliminary information and whatnot. As a matter of fact, if anyone is interested in it, let me know and we can talk RPG.

On the other side, I’m still editing The Grand Tour, but not as frequently or as much as I’d like. I have a hard time finding the proper mental space to just sit down and write. I havev difficulties in concentrating with so much work and responsibilities in the real world. I still havev to figure out some things inside my brain box. It’s really hard to stay on top of things.

Unfortunately, I still haven’t picked up Takuan Soho’s Kendo to finish reading. I’m just postponing because I have little to no time for myself. Good news is: next week there is another free Monday and I may use it to devour this book. I hope I can manage to read and enjoy it. It requires some concentration and I’d like to givev it the attention it deserves.

After that, I should get back to reading Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein to understand better about memory and whatnot.

As far as voice over, I still have some things to get around to doing, nothing really solid, so I still owe the world a decent performance in regards to my voice. I’ll be working hard to get there.

In my free time I enjoy playing video games and watching movies, mostly. So, I just went through about two weeks of Linux on my pc and I am glad to announce I dropped that faster than Skrillex drops a beat. It is NOT ready for serious gaming yet, so I just came back to good ‘ol Windows. I’m trying some new games, but during my Linux time I really got back into Prince of Persia (the original, mind you) and I’ve been trying to get good at it. Don’t really know why.

The upcoming week should be much the same, writing, maybe some guitar, definitely some voice. You’ll just have to check it out next week. Maybe I’ll have something interesting to show next update. See you then.

update of april 11

Yay.

I can’t really say more than that. It was a slow week, actually, but it was also an interesting week. I’ve gone back to editing my previous works and even my RPG rulebook, which is a project I truly started in November of ’21. It was a weird disconnect between then and now. More than anything because I have no one to take a look at it. It’s hard to alpha-test a game if no one is gaming.

Aside from that, work on the review of The Grand Tour is going slow, but steady.

I have thought of some new ideas in the meantime, trying to come up with something fresh, but it’s hard to come up with new things when everything around me is old and decaying.

Anyways, I have been trying to change some more things in my life, not only for the writing. I have finally made the leap of turning away from Windows to Linux. I’m currently running Ubuntu 20.04, but I have to say, it’s a bit limited. I was hoping more freedom, especially regarding the gog.com availability of games. Apparently version 20.04 made changes that create some problems in making games work well in it. I may end up trying another distro, but in the meantime, I’m waiting for a few weeks before I give up completely on Ubuntu.

In completely different news, I’ve been watching House all over again and really paying attention to it. It’s funny how some stories change as I grow older. Its story is no longer the cool lonesome doctor solving puzzles and being mean. It’s now a group of people who have way too much to hide trying to solve other people’s problems in order to avoid their own. Weird.

I have dropped painting, haven’t touched a brush or easel in some time, but that is another matter completely. I’ve been hankering for music, but knowing my luck, as soon as I touch the guitar, the strings are going to snap and the amplifier is going to burst into flames. I should try it again, though.

I have been trying to keep an open mind regarding the arts around me in Italy, but it’s hard to separate the beautiful art I see with the terrible things they depict. I have a problem with Christianity as I imagine smart people have, so I hate seeing fantastic pieces depicting shitty things of Christianity. And before someone comes along talking about freedom of religion, don’t. I don’t care. You can say and do whatever you want in your own space, but don’t come knocking on my door with that crap.

And to close up, I have been avoiding meat for some time now and it is having an effect on my body. I’m afraid I’m losing a lot of weight very quickly, so I may change some things if this keeps up.

In the world of reading, I have taken a quick break because after I finished Amanda Palmer’s Art of Asking, I need some time to process. I had started Takuan Soho’s Kendo before I started Art of Asking, but it’s kind of a heavy read. I may take some time.

Another book I most definitely have to finish reading is the Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, a book about memory and memorisation. I’m really curious about this one, which I also started but haven’t finished because it requires focus and time to properly take in.

Well, that seems to be all for today. Thanks for reading. Write you next week.