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020 monday march 30 2020 being a short order cook blogger you know one thing i kind of dislike about this urge to post lots of things blapril or not the sheer volume of unfinished drafts sitting in the post section of blogger not counting any fiction i m working on there s at least 5 articles from the recent couple of months still in draft form that i intend to publish it s just that i look at what i m working on whether it makes sense to finish it now and deciding that i d be better off leaving them unfinished for now it s not like there aren t unfinished drafts in the blog s post section over the years we ve accumulated quite a few of them a lot of those i started got partway through and decided to either table it for another time that never came or that it wasn t working and decided to abandon it but now with too many things to say but being uncertain in which order to say them i have a lot of mostly finished posts that just need to be put in some semblance of order when i started blogging i didn t expect this would be a problem i thought that you d write something post it and maybe you get some commentary from it and that d be the extent of my involvement in pc however with the dawn of the modern influencer movement has come the expansion of brand promotion data analytics and all sorts of other non content related activities with running a blog which on the face of it seems silly for a blog that is largely about a gaming movement that is long past its heyday even if you discard like i do a lot of the analytics brand promotion and other traditional influencer activities you still have content that needs to be presented in a coherent way and that s where my dilemma is when i have one major idea at a time it s not a difficult matter to write edit and post but if i get a lot of ideas at once hey my brain does kick in every once in a while sorting them out takes a few days or a week or two weeks but i guess the entire point of this massive jumble is that it s a good thing to have so much to say but making sense of it all requires an understanding of blogging meta issues that to be honest are not why you got into blogging in the first place perhaps a better analogy is comparing blogging to cooking both can be fun activities and there are times when both feel a lot like work with both you can take the fly by the seat of your pants approach and just make something with whatever you ve got on hand at the moment whether it be a specific topic blogging or whatever is in your pantry cooking however once you get into planning things out you can then anticipate with regularity when you ll need to focus on different things for example some people do the taco tuesday or wine wednesday where they make meals that fit into a theme converting that into a blog you can have a wow wednesday or a miscellaneous monday where a regular topic means you have a ready made posting direction sure you can mix and match elements as much as you like to keep things fresh and gaming news has a way of interfering with the best made plans out there but sticking to a regular schedule helps a person plan things out and also allows for consistent feedback but in the end whatever works for you is worth it if i m going to meet the blapril scheduling demands however i need to be in more of a planning mode if i m going to order my unfinished posts properly as well as meet the increased demands of many posts in a month the same goes for cooking given that we re in lockdown for the foreseeable future oh and one more non blogging tip despite my skepticism air fryers work i didn t ask for one and i had no intention of buying one but i was given one for the holidays this past winter once i realized that a so called air fryer is actually a mini convection oven that opens up all sorts of avenues for cooking that i didn t have before but yes you can make killer onion rings in them too blapril2020 i can officially say we because soul has exactly one in there from eons ago still it s a blank entry so i guess it might not count sheesh i sound like a big data miner posted by redbeard at 1 55 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blapril2020 musings sunday march 29 2020 going in with eyes wide open i m not exactly sure what i was thinking but i signed up for blapril it s not as if i don t have things to do games to play work to keep me busy or family to keep an eye on but i guess i just wanted to to it well and looking back on last month i was uncommonly busy posting wise even if you take out everything affiliated with one final lesson i still posted seven times which is high for me i typically try to hit a once week posting schedule with a couple of extra posts thrown in every month so i ll freely admit that march 2020 was definitely unusual from my blogging output of course march 2020 will be remembered for another particular reason that i need not expand upon here and now i have to come up with a boatload of topics on an almost daily basis i realize you re not required to do that in blapril but come on you know what you re getting into when you commit to something like that and unlike my last several forays into nanowrimo i m going to try to make this stick why should it be different this time you might ask probably because i actually finished a story sure it was a shouting into the void moment but once i started writing an origin story of sorts for cardwyn i simply couldn t stop even if i wanted to and now that i finished an actual work of fiction i ve found i can t stop it s like i ve been transported back to 2008 9 when i first joined livejournal and began to connect with all sorts of aspiring writers i burned through a lot of virtual ink during that time writing something that could only be described in hindsight as mary sue meets marty stu with lots of angst in the way but being able to step back and realize what was happening writing wise meant i could actually write something better the next time around and less cringe worthy at the same time i dropped fiction in favor of well this blog i found it sated my need to write while keeping me on a semi regular schedule to be honest i even stopped reading or watching fiction because i felt i couldn t devote the time to it that i felt it deserved i was happy to see sf f take a more prominent role in our fictional worlds written visual and virtual but i couldn t see myself devoting time to books movies or comics because of my completionist tendencies well that and the desire of a lot of content creators to inject a lot of pathos into stories just to make the stories feel more adult like i ve said many times before i don t need that in my fiction because if i wanted that i d just turn on the news but you know how to get the fiction you want you write it yourself and you actually finish the damn thing and post it as proof that you finished it and now i ve come full circle with an urge to write fiction and devote more time to writing non fiction as well which includes doing something stupid and signing up for blapril oh well i guess you couldn t say that i don t know what i m getting myself into blapril2020 posted by redbeard at 10 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blapril2020 2020 thursday march 26 2020 wordpress doesn t seem to like me no really i ve commented on several wordpress blogs lately including the last chapter gaming blog kamalia et alia and the ancient gaming noob but the comments never appeared my first thought was that i d somehow screwed up and pushed a cancel button or something instead of post comment but i ve since discovered that there is no cancel button okay i thought maybe i ended up on a spam list somewhere the only issue with that is that i d assume that if that were the case i couldn t post on blogger hosted blogs as well but i have no issues there so go figure it s not as if this sort of thing hasn t cropped up before my wife managed to get our main pc infected several years ago and even after i removed the infection our pc showed up on some block lists that our isp subscribed to so i had to wait until our pc vanished from those lists before we could connect to the internet once more i m kind of hoping that s not the case because removing infections can be a royal pita posted by redbeard at 9 12 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings saturday march 21 2020 saturday musings in a brave new world in these extraordinary times when shelter in place and pandemic and cancelled have become active parts of our lexicon i ve been wondering about gaming obviously if you re stuck inside the house one of the activities you can do by yourself or with family is play games if the mini reds were a lot younger we d be playing a ton of boardgames in our free time but nowadays they ve been playing video games and yes that includes mmos the oldest mini red has noticed an uptick in gamers in lotro recently and i ve noticed more players online in wow classic as well although the opening of arathi basin might have something to do with that as for eso i can t tell because i mainly craft these days and i ve only been puttering around belsavis and hoth in swtor lately which aren t typically your most populated zones but i ve also been playing a lot of civ iv games and the second mini red has been playing a lot of civ v what have you noticed has there been noticeable uptick in gaming relatively speaking i work from home and that hasn t changed and my wife still works retail and her job hasn t shut down yet as it s kind of important to distributing food and supplies i ve got it in my head that i m going to do all of the expansions both major and minor in order and that means saving up money to either subscribe or buy the mini expacs outright so i m kind of in a holding pattern there posted by redbeard at 11 35 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings monday march 16 2020 you know the world has turned upside down when i pull out an album i ve not listened to since roughly 1990 my wife asked me to fix her old magnavox stereo system 1987 so some of the oldest mini red s university stuff is to the right her university is going virtual for the rest of the semester and i m pretty sure that the second mini red s university will follow shortly eta aaaand we just received word that his university is definitely going virtual i guess it s time to hit the road again posted by redbeard at 3 48 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family miscellaneous musings saturday march 14 2020 happy tenth in the midst of everything going on i forgot to mention that kamalia of kamalia et alia has celebrated her tenth blogoversary on march 9th kamalia s gravitar i ve enjoyed her fashion sense with her sunday on the promenade recurring series having been able to create fashion outfits out of the tons and tons of wow gear that you can use me i m just happy if i don t look like burning crusade clown gear but maybe i should learn a thing or two about fashion sense and i don t mean wearing white after labor day over the years kamalia has seen her family grow with two new additions and i can truly appreciate her efforts at keeping the blog running with two little ones around happy tenth kamalia posted by redbeard at 11 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anniversaries news thursday march 12 2020 two inc to lumber mill yes that means that arathi basin opened this week on wow classic and zul gurub and nightmare dragons next month a short refresher and no that s not cardwyn on the left from wowhead clasic i guess that makes up for e3 being cancelled among other major cancellations out there esports is but one venue being hit with the covid 19 pandemic but for gamers esports and cons such as e3 pax blizzcon and gencon are huge social events of course gamer events are comparatively speaking small potatoes to some of the cancellations and or modifications happening in other areas such as the nba suspending the rest of their basketball season the ncaa hockey and basketball tournaments to be played without spectators and the italian serie a football season suspended fast news week if you ask me posted by redbeard at 10 13 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news wow classic wednesday march 11 2020 shooting robo dinos with arrows coming soon to a pc near you to get away from fiction for a while news came out yesterday that the ps4 title horizon zero dawn is coming to pc from the verge who credit guerilla games of all the ps4 exclusives this is the one i was most interested in and i know i m not the only one however i d kind of resigned myself to never seeing the game on pc because well sony would like to keep their exclusives in house and make you buy a ps4 instead i guess sony must have run the numbers and decided there was more money to be made by releasing the game on pc rather than keeping it in house i d like to think that s the case as i can t possibly be the only pc gamer who simply doesn t have an xboxone or ps4 lying around additionally it certainly seems that consoles are driving the video games market so pc ports can be more trouble than they re worth with the xbox and ps architecture you only have to design for far fewer sets of hardware than in the pc market additionally pc gamers are used to much higher framerates and graphical detail than can be found in the console market nevermind that the number of pc gamers who have hardware that can achieve those lofty heights aren t that numerous that the potential is there is the important part officially sony is saying that they want to lure pc people into using the ps4 but i believe that everybody who wants and or owns a ps4 already has a pc so chasing after dollars from people like me who don t have and don t want a ps4 is kind of a head scratcher but hey i m happy to accept this lure by sony sony had better not expect me to drop the full price for the game however as a i don t have that sort of money just lying around and b i m busy with other games first i m not including the nintendo switch here as third parties aren t exactly flocking to putting their latest and greatest on the switch their loss in my opinion posted by redbeard at 8 39 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels horizon zero dawn news tuesday march 10 2020 on being debriefed now that the story is fully posted i can take a deep breath and relax once i started in on the tale i didn t expect to be flirting with a novella length story but that s what ended up i know it s cliche to say it but the characters themselves insisted on a manuscript this size although i did chop off quite a 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