Hello Top Men and Top Women! It’s the time for some blah-blah.

It’s been roughly a month and a half and the new job is not really agreeing with me. It’s not difficult, but I’m not liking it very much. Staying motivated is difficult. I have to push myself to pick up the phone for every file. I haven’t felt this down at work since I was working Collections. The silver lining is that what I’m doing right now isn’t my real job. I’m just doing it so I know how things work.

Fortunately, my social life is in a much better place. When I stay at home it’s because I want to, not because I have nothing to do. I’m starting to feel a little more comfortable in my skin again. The voices are still in my head but I’m doing better at believing I’m an okay person to be around.

I finished season 2 of Daredevil over the weekend. It’s been good, though the violence is a little excessive for my taste. I just watched the first episode of Luke Cage before starting to write this. It didn’t completely hook me in, but I’m curious enough to continue. I’m digging Mike Colter as Cage. He has great charisma. I want to hear him say, “Sweet Christmas” at least once and I’ll be happy.

That’s it for this week. I know there isn’t a whole lot of meat on these blog bones, but it’s like whenever I sit down to write one, my mind goes blank. It takes me forever to put what I’m thinking into words so the hour I set for this goes by with very little getting written. At any rate, I’m doing bloggin’ so have yourselves a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday when I expect I may have a word or two to say about Wrestlemania (it’s this Sunday). Carja V.

Hello there Top Men and Top Women! Time to blog. I’m feeling a little more coherent this week so let’s see if we can blog a bit more than last time.

I dipped my toe back into the D&D waters on Saturday. The opportunity just sorta dropped into my lap. I was talking to one friend about dropping out of the D&D game I was supposed to join  when another friend mentioned he’d always wanted to try playing. Fast forward a couple of weeks and there we were on Saturday making characters. There will be five, maybe six, player characters and me as the Dungeon Master. I haven’t DM’d in years. The last time was actually when I was giving a go at an Age of Animus RPG system (look it up, there are write-ups on the site). We started late so we didn’t finish, but we have the start of a direction. It’s kinda exciting and terrifying at the same time.

I got to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past last week. I’m digging the game system. I was playing the villains with three Criq members playing the Turtles. I misread the rules and ended up playing at half strength for the first round. The Turtles couldn’t roll movement icons for the life of them so I very easily could have run away and won the scenario but I didn’t want our first experience be so anticlimactic so I stuck around for a bit to give the Turtles a chance. In the end, it came down to one ranged attack from Raphael. If it hit, I lost. If it missed, I’d be able to run away on my next turn.  Wouldn’t you know it, they hit and that was all she wrote. Still, I very much enjoyed the game. I look forward to playing again.

The fight between Barnaby and Fang has begun. I got to try my hand at drawing combat scenes again and I have to say, I’m pretty terrible at it. Actually coming up with new and different battle poses was super difficult. One strip in (the one that goes up tomorrow) and I felt I’d run out of juice for the fight. That pushed me to find a different path to get to the desired conclusion. I’m there now and while it’s not as grandiose as I would have liked, it’s at least something I felt I could draw. How does it end? Well, you’ll just have to read along and see, won’t you? (That’s what they call a hook.)

Montreal Comic Con has announced Nathan Filion as a guest of honor. There was a time when that announcement would have filled me excitement. Sadly that time seems to have passed as I have little to no interest whatsoever in going. It feels like a part of me has died. My wallet will thank me for it though, so there’s that.

That’s all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.