John Zeitler

Upon arriving home, I discovered that the Twitter widget in the sidebar was malfunctioning, blasting out my extended tweet stream rather than just the current status. I apologize for the inconvenience; once it’s working normally again, I’ll restore it.

Beyond that, I’m off to bed… catch you folks later.

There’s been a bit of gaming news here on the blog this past weekend, and that’s because I was making a concerted effort to actually accomplish something on the gaming front– you know, so I don’t feel like I’m spinning my wheels. It helped that I completed a game I thought I would be stuck on for a very long time (I’ve never been terribly good at flight games with the exception of Star Fox). Anyway, pretty soon I’ll be back to making at least weekly blog posts, if not more often. Not sure exactly when that will be, but it will be soon. ‘Till then, folks.

Oh, and AC6? Awesome.

Folks, I think I need to take a break from writing and blogging for a bit. I know, I know, it’s the same as it always is with me– I start something and it never gets finished. I’m coming to the point where I need to decide what it is exactly I should be focusing myself on first, and going from there. At this point it could be writing, blogging, programming, or not “producing” anything at all. It can only be one of those, though, and unfortunately the rest have got to be scaled back drastically if I’m going to get anywhere. I need to take some time to figure out which one I’m best at, and which one I should do going forward.

Since the novel posts are automated, those will continue. Everything else is on hiatus until further notice.

Thank you for your understanding.

Folks, I don’t advertise too much on my site, particularly not for A Civics Lesson. Granted, that may be why it’s garnered almost no attention whatsoever, but I think there’s another reason: it’s really hard to get caught up. Fortunately, I’ve managed to change that aspect.

You can now read each chapter in linear order as they are completed.. I recommend spending the next couple of days getting caught up through to the end of Chapter Five (it’s a doozy); Chapter Six will be done in a week or so, so you can catch it there then (or start here, now with the “next segment” tag), and from there I really recommend using the RSS Feed to stay current.

I’d also appreciate it if you folks could spread the word about the book again. Thanks.

I owe you guys a full-length post about the weekend; probably tomorrow. However, I don’t want to let the day pass by without doing something first.

I want to thank everyone, from the bottom of my heart, for the birthday wishes that were sent my way on Saturday. 29 isn’t a particularly interesting milestone; but, it is the oldest I’ve ever been (at the time), so there’s that to celebrate. It’s nice to know that you’re thought well of. Once again, thanks.

Like I said, the big post with all the personal stuff and all the gaming news is coming later on this week. Till then, catch you all later.

Oh! Since we STILL didn’t get the WiiWare version of Cave Story yet (seriously, that would have been an AWESOME birthday present, Nicalis…!), check out this sweet fan-trailer. I guarantee it supplies 100% of your daily recommended allowance of Hatsune Miku (which is a blatant lie; you can never have enough Miku).

I’m probably going to be dropping off the net for the next few days. Honestly this is all for the best, as I’m starting to run into some annoying physical limitations on what I can do, specifically the need for sleep. I should be back by Monday at the latest. Ciao.

A lot of people find it quite remarkable how, when confronted with something that they didn’t expect, I can shrug it off and say “I saw this coming.” Most folks ascribe it to a gift, some perception they don’t possess. That’s partly true; I do tend to catch on to details before other people. The primary difference being that those details are far from supernatural, and every time I do it, I pray as hard as I can that I’m wrong.

Let me just say this: I wasn’t wrong several times today. Some of them good, some of them less good. I’ll explain once this gauchery is behind us.

Sorry, folks… still no actual posting yet. The last few days have been rough, but I’m slowly getting back into a semblance of order. This weekend will likely be quiet as well but I’m hoping I can get some more code work done for the XNA project; over the week I drafted out some of the functionality and at some point this weekend, probably tomorrow, I’m going to give it a test run. In the meantime, well… just bear with me.

I updated The Collection tonight, with the primary reason excuse being the new shelves I put together over the weekend making it much easier to see everything at once.

For the appropriate effect, put on some music that’s heavy with organs. This will allow you to not just see, but experience just how much of a life I do not possess.

It took me well over a month to remember to add my comments feed to my own reader, so I can respond to comments in a far more timely manner. It should go without saying that I’ve done so now, so to anyone who thinks I was ignoring their comments… I wasn’t. Really. I just never remembered. The fact that the feed link isn’t exactly obvious in this layout doesn’t help things either.

I should probably have an update to The Collection page done tonight. It’s going to be much easier to do now, because… well, you’ll see.