Looks like Scientist was on to something. Sometimes I wish I were in a spaceship headed somewhere, anywhere else.

Great 5 issue series by Farel Dalrymple at Image Comics. highly recommended.

I’m going to make an effort to begin daily posting again. My energy is beginning to return and I’ve been thinking about creative endeavors once again (finally). After a particularly long fallow period, my mind has once again allowed me to start thinking about the book again.

But that’s not what this post is about.

Since my self-imposed isolation a couple of months ago, I’ve shied away from all social media save Twitter and Instagram. Today I accidentally tapped a LinkedIn notification banner, opening the app for the first time in probably months.

I hate LinkedIn. It carries with it the stench of corporate America and brings back a lot of bad memories of the last two years spent at my job under Evil Corp, Inc. A lot of rah, rah cheer-leading and salesmanship. Do you want to go to an ERP or EDI conference?

Yeah, neither do I.

So, while I will be taking the rest of 2020 to observe, work on my mental well-being, and pursue creative projects, I will also be ruminating on what to do on the job front after the first of the year (still Covid-19 dependent at this point, I imagine). After looking at LinkedIn for under two minutes, I am more determined than ever to find something as far away from that sector as possible.

One thing I can say for that website…one visit was all that it took to put me back in the headspace that made me want to write Mycelium Network in the first place. All of that bleak, blah-bitty-blah corporate speak is enough to send me running to the hills.

No offense to my friends working their asses off for places like that…I just can’t do it anymore.

It’s been so long since I’ve done anything creative (anything at all, really) but it feels like that dry spell is coming to an end. I’ve thought that way before and ended up binging seven seasons of Orange is the New Black in about a week…hugely helpful to my productivity (but it was a good show).

I managed to get a rough of my bibliography up on its own page. It’s a good start, but I still need to fill in many of the details. I can see this expanding to maybe a page for each entry on the page, but that will depend on how motivated I am feeling.

Link should be over on the side or click here.

It’s time to get this thing fired up. After over a month of inactivity, will the engine even start? Let us see.

A strange, rainy, up and down kind of day today. But tomorrow will be an adventure. See you Thursday!

At the moment in time that I type these words (July 21, 2020), I will have had this particular website for over a year and have done basically nothing with it. Given the current state of social media resembling a propaganda mouthpiece for a third world nation, I have decided to opt out of that arena, for now at least.

I will mostly be talking about writing/creating in this space, though will delve into other subjects from time to time.