What's on your mind?

[Niels]

You remind me of our friend @Miss Spaulding when you say that, haha.

I wonder what she's up to these days.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

I will pray for you, in any event.

Thank you, God bless you!

 

[ReesePiece23]

I wonder what she's up to these days.

I've seen her around recently, I'm sure of it. I received a notification from her - couldn't have been more than six weeks ago.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

So tired...

 

[SarahsKnight]

If you all would please pray. My area is to be hit with severe storms tonight. I already heard a deafening and startling crack of thunder outside.

I know it might not sound like a big deal, and it isn't thunder I am afraid of ... but I am always a bit edgy about the possibility of the power going out during these things. That sudden lapse into darkness and the comforting background hum of things like my fan, my air conditioner, my PC tower, etc. coming to a slow halt, has always unnerved me a bit.

I guess you could say that, to some degree, even today I am still scared of the dark.

 

[Niels]

This has been my first week working all 3 jobs at 100%. Shifting gears between them is challenging, but I'll get used to it. My dad suggested that this sounds like a good mental workout, and I agree. At the very least, I'll learn a thing or two along the way and have interesting stories to share.

God is good. So much to be thankful for.

 

[SarahsKnight]

This has been my first week working all 3 jobs at 100%. Shifting gears between them is challenging, but I'll get used to it. My dad suggested that this sounds like a good mental workout, and I agree. At the very least, I'll learn a thing or two along the way and have interesting stories to share.

Dang, bro. Even my schedule as it was for a couple of weeks recently at my one job was nothing by comparison. Are all of your jobs part-time? Or do you mean that you are actually doing the typical 40 hours with each one, totaling to 120 hours every week? Because if so, you may as well be Superman. O_O

 

[SarahsKnight]

If you all would please pray. My area is to be hit with severe storms tonight. I already heard a deafening and startling crack of thunder outside.

I know it might not sound like a big deal, and it isn't thunder I am afraid of ... but I am always a bit edgy about the possibility of the power going out during these things. That sudden lapse into darkness and the comforting background hum of things like my fan, my air conditioner, my PC tower, etc. coming to a slow halt, has always unnerved me a bit.

I guess you could say that, to some degree, even today I am still scared of the dark.

Oh, and I am okay. Thanks for those who prayed. Actually the storm seemed to die down almost immediately after I had even made this post.

 

[Niels]

Dang, bro. Even my schedule as it was for a couple of weeks recently at my one job was nothing by comparison. Are all of your jobs part-time? Or do you mean that you are actually doing the typical 40 hours with each one, totaling to 120 hours every week? Because if so, you may as well be Superman. O_O

Only 50 hours per week, thank goodness. All three are part-time. Two are 20 hours and one is 10 hours. Monday through Friday on a 10 hour workday. My weekends are relatively free, with some flexibility to work from home. The first two jobs are technically under the same employer, which means I get to keep my benefits. If the new position goes full time, I'll resign from the old one. The 10 hour role involves a 3 year commitment, but I previously worked with that group as a volunteer so I'm used to the hours.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Heh. My boy Lantis just messaged me over gmail on this. Another guy we knew from RPGMMag over the last 15 years or so, Insultabot, somehow remembered and gave thought to the game we made some years ago for RPGMaker 1, called Arc Arath, in which one of the characters was a pirate and his fairy companion, William and Paprika (not made after myself despite my real name being William).

Insultabot made some hot sauce or something from scratch and remembered Arc Arath long enough to slap a label on it featuring concept art of William the pirate and Paprika his flying companion.

I guess he called it Essence of Paprika simply due to the spice paprika being one of the ingredients.

Although, I actually wasn't thinking of the spice when, back when making the game starting in 2004, I first came up with the concept of there being a fairy companion for a pirate and his crew instead of the usual parrot perched on his shoulder, and named her Paprika. It just seemed like a proper name for a two-foot-tall pint-sized fairy chick to me. And while she was boisterous in the face of monsters yet ultimately found herself always calling for help from her friends who were the much more obvious choice of warrior than she, we strangely decided to make her a playable character for the third act of the game, in which without really planning on it made her the strongest magic user who could wipe out entire groups of monsters in one or two turns, as a trade-off for her naturally being delicate in the HP, defense, and physical attack department.

You can't really see Paprika on the bottle label above, but we did manage to get some official artwork of Paprika out of the freelance artist we'd come to know through the RPGMMag administrator, before he went on to bigger and better things at Archie Comics. ^-^

EDIT: Actually now that I looked at it more closely, that may not even be art we found of some unknown random pirate guy to use as a placeholder for more official artwork of William the Pirate later on. Because now it kind of resembles the pirate you see on labels of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum, to me. So maybe Insultabot just took that label and photoshopped Paprika on it.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

I have never written this many poems at one time... I am really struggling right now... and I hate admitting that...

 

[RileyG]

Good evening all

 

[RileyG]

I have never written this many poems at one time... I am really struggling right now... and I hate admitting that...

God bless you for persevering . I am sure your poems are lovely.

 

[RileyG]

I'm always exhausted after work. Anyone else feel the same way? Maybe I'm overreacting.

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I'm always exhausted after work. Anyone else feel the same way? Maybe I'm overreacting.

You're not alone, I assure you. At least you get tomorrow to rest.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

God bless you for persevering . I am sure your poems are lovely.

Thank you! I truly do appreciate that!! It means a lot! God bless you!!!

 

[RileyG]

You're not alone, I assure you. At least you get tomorrow to rest.

Thanks for responding. I do not know why I am tired all the time. I thought it was abnormal.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Thanks for responding. I do not know why I am tired all the time. I thought it was abnormal.

Not abnormal at all, man. Hey, work is soul-crushing for us all. What it means to be an adult.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

I need a hug...

 

[Niels]

I rode a different advanced mountain bike trail today. It had several wooden features, steep climbs, steep descents, not overly technical but the undulating terrain got to me after a while. I accidentally hit one tree with my left knuckles and another with my right shoulder. Neither knocked me over, but caught me by surprise. Although I was pretty exhausted at certain points, I also encountered some unexpectedly fun sections. By the end of the ride, after taking a few breaks and drinking lots of water, my energy level had mostly returned to normal.

Later on, I managed to lift weights without feeling fatigued. We'll see how I feel tomorrow.