{"id":1419,"date":"2016-04-05T17:37:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2018-10-22T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:08:31","slug":"a-conventional-dry-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2016\/04\/05\/a-conventional-dry-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conventional Dry Spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Bitweaver\u2019s Journal, 4th of Swiftstorm, 716 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>Two months of no journaling&#8230; yeah, can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m too pleased with that. What happened? Many things, but primarily ReGeneration Who. What I&#8217;d planned to be a simple administrative job turned out to be many nights of collating, emailing, updating, correcting, and otherwise maintaining the staff listings for the con. On top of that, there was a fair amount of travel promoting the convention, which sucked my energies away. I managed to get 1.5 Managlitch episodes in there, and the first chapter of a novel, but that was all the creative will I could locate.<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, life has stayed pretty steady. Roxy&nbsp;is working practically full time, which means that much of our money woes have become minor concerns. My job continues to chug along, a little dull sometimes now that I have a routine, but comfortable and positive. I&#8217;m on new medication now for my depression, and my body&#8217;s still dealing with the chemical changes involved. Oddly, my appetite&#8217;s decreased and I think I&#8217;m losing a little weight.<\/p>\n<p>I worry terribly about Mom. I&#8217;m not at all certain how her situation is going to pan out &#8211; her mind and body continue to fade, but so very slowly. I hope she doesn&#8217;t start a fire with those damn cigarettes, of for no other reason than I don&#8217;t want everyone in her apartment building hurt. As usual, she can&#8217;t be bothered to do a damn thing that would improve her situation, and is content to watch cable television every waking hour, pet her cat, and slowly sink into a pile of discarded wrappers.<\/p>\n<p>But in happier news, there are many good things ahead. I&#8217;m due to have a short piece of writing about Doctor Who novels appear in a charity anthology, I&#8217;ve released the <a href=\"http:\/\/managlitch.com\/ep-019a-interference-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\">20th completed episode<\/a> of Managlitch City Underground, I have that first chapter of a novel done, and Roxy&nbsp;has scheduled us twice-monthly appointments with a massage therapist. Soon, I&#8217;ll be able to pay off one of the two remaining large debts of mine from the move to North Carolina, which will free up money for other fun pursuits. And, I wake up every morning next to a wonderful woman who loves me. Going without that for five years wasn&#8217;t fun at all.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s not two more months until next entry. I don&#8217;t want any more of my life to be empty of definite memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Bitweaver\u2019s Journal, 4th of Swiftstorm, 716 \u2014 Two months of no journaling&#8230; yeah, can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m too pleased with that. What happened? Many things, but primarily ReGeneration Who. What I&#8217;d planned to be a simple administrative job turned out to be many nights of collating, emailing, updating, correcting, and otherwise maintaining the staff listings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,135,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-conventions","category-managlitch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-mT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}