Also AFAIK she hasn't been on in awhile
Yeah I haven't been on SV in like an actual month >.> Pretty much a couple weeks after I posted that third Composite chapter over in the compilation thread.
I've been working basically full-time, as this has been peak season for us, and that means being on my feet for seven or eight hours a day, five days a week, at which point I'm pretty dead afterwards. My creative drive is pretty much murdered by that and my depression only makes it worse. Interacting with people that much just tires me out like nothing else
So, I fall back to other things that don't require major thinking, i.e. Destiny 2 which has been eating up time now that cross-save is a thing and I can actually use my unnecessarily overbuilt desktop for something other than compiling software projects.
On top of that, I've been dealing with hard drives dying on me. I had a soft failure a long time ago that destroyed my filesystem but left the files intact so that I could do data recovery, but I've never sorted through the
hundreds of thousands of unnamed, unorganized files. Just today I had another drive seemingly have a hard failure, which I barely avoided losing anything (I think) by catching small hints of data corruption in missing file data, letting me rsync the entire filesystem less than thirty minutes before the controller finally bit the dust.
So yeah, I've been dealing with all that. Consolidating, de-duping, and organizing about 35TB of data across 50TB of drives is a
really fun time guys
. /s
However, the season is winding down now, my hours will be cut back to a more part-time number, and in addition there'll be much less people even coming in when we are open. I'm hoping that lets me focus on writing more, as I have been feeling pretty guilty about the fact I haven't even touched my text editor seriously in like a month.
Paradoxical, Transposition, Composite, and AFHB are all at the top of my priority queue for writing once I finally can/do, with each having about half of the next chapter written for each.
Edit: also please do not derail the thread by arguing about necro rules for over a page. The AFHB thread has already received a mod notice and banner, and I'd hate to have that be necessary here as well.