John Zeitler

I realized this afternoon that I am making things much, much harder on myself in terms of getting ahead in writing up Frangible Time. Therefore, I’m probably going to go into total lockdown mode for the duration of the writing. I should have been in this mode since the first of November, but I wasn’t; and then once I got sick I used that as a crutch and an excuse to not write. This irritates me beyond the capacity for reason.

Until further notice, I’m suspending regular blog posting, Twitter updates, forum participation, gaming (both offline and online), and, well, pretty much everything that isn’t writing. This also means that, despite my best efforts, I’m probably going to have a lapse in posts on Linguankery now that A Civics Lesson is done. I’ll post status updates on that site, and once I’m closer to a respectable goal I’ll post here again. (I have to finish FT before I can start posting it there, because I refuse to start posting something I’m not going to finish.)

That’s all. Sorry for the abrupt and terse tone, but it’s like a band-aid. Best to pull it off in one quick motion. Catch you all in a couple weeks.

Sorry, folks. I have an early morning tomorrow and had a very, VERY long day today. This week is pretty much shot, just for the record, so I’m going to just call this a mini-hiatus and get back to you all on Monday. Sound good?

I promise, these aren’t too abysmal. In fact, this first bit is sheer concentrated awesome.

(Okay, so the Halo “aria” could use some work.)

The second thing, though, is a bit more self-serving. Most of you folks know I’m on a big productivity kick, and part of that means getting as much information available as passively as possible (read: lazily). To this end, I’ve set up another panel on my GeekTool desktop to show me which podcasts in my regular rotation have not yet been listened to. You can see the general effect here. You also get a glimpse at my incredibly boring schedule.

Anyway, that’s really it– tomorrow I’m going to do more coding work, or possibly the D&D campaign review I keep meaning to do. Oh, and as you can see the Twitter feed is back online on the main site page. Catch you all later.

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.