I love TTRPGs. Pathfinder 2e and then Daggerheart have been the vehicles through which my partner and I have been telling our Skies Over Aefala story. However, there's been a sneaky little tax that has kept us from playing consistently in recent months, an insurmountable hurdle that slams like a shutting gate on us when our energy is lowest. I call it the "setup tax."   Used to, when we had a full group of players, I controlled Cael, and the two others controlled their charac

Okayokayokay, look at last week's time block scheduler.   The Time Block Scheduler Boy, that was lookin' pretty sparse at the time of snapping the picture, wasn't it? Now look at the same page one week later. Isn't it gorgeous ? Taking the time to outline each block after I complete a task consequently encourages me to slow down , keeping one task from bleeding into the next and bleeding into the next until the day is a whitewash of busy-ness, and what did I do at 10 AM again

I have a confession to make. I didn't finish my Intelligent Change quarterly planner. I know! I know. What a waste, am I right? I meant to, I did, even though I wasn't the biggest fan of its constricted layout or its dated calendar or its forward-thinking approach, but life had other plans for me the last couple of weeks, and I decided to just...let the planner reflect the last two weeks through its emptiness. Poetic. Its rigidity kept it from breathing, and I like my structu