New year, new planner, right? I decided to give the "Intelligent Change" planners a try this year and have been using the first of my 4 for a couple weeks now. I...miss my yearly planner already, because it took less hacking to make it work for me. While the first few pages of the Intelligent Change planner worked fine, primarily setting up goals and "committing" by making a promise to yourself in the book, I quickly ran into issues with the actual planner, starting with the

Pathbuilder spoiled me with its beautiful layout and user-friendly interface when my partner and I were still using Pathfinder 2e as the vehicle for telling our story. The opportunity never arose for me to experiment with switching between three characters during a session using it, but it was a godsend for keeping track of Efial's/Cael's growing complexity as they leveled up. I, uh, I seem to really enjoy creating mechanically complex characters. If I had to guess, it stimu

Ahh, New Year's, that time of the year where people reflect, party themselves into oblivion as a "final hurrah", and lie to themselves about who they'll become once January 1st arrives, as though the start of a brand new year alone contains the magic necessary to vanish all those poor habits and replace them with new, better ones with a simple flick of the wrist. Bye bye, obesity; hello, six-pack. Bye bye dead-end job that overworks its employees without compensation; hello,

At least once a month I brush up against days where I do not want to lift weights. Sometimes I can muster up enough of my reliance on consistency to push through the warmup before I decide, "No, I really can't do it today." Usually that thought's preceded by me lying flat on my back on my yoga mat after doing some dead bugs or glute bridges, simple exercises to help wake up the body. If upon completing those I still feel drained and ready for a nap right there in the middle o

It's early October. My self-imposed deadline for Cael's performance is quickly approaching. I'm moving beyond thinking about pieces and practice and scenes in relation to Teyr'loch Delter Pach and returning to a semblance of normalcy living inside Cael's head, what they might say to their father after the performance, how interactions between them and the rest of their father's envoy might look. I hold hypothetical conversations as them on my walks. "Patra," they might say,

With the end of the year fast approaching and knowing most of my focus during the final weeks will be on preparing for the year ahead, I figured now would be as good a time as any to reflect on 2025, which has been a wild, tumultuous time for many. It certainly did not unfold as I had initially envisioned when making my list of objectives in January, but rarely does anything pan out the way we'd expect. Teyr'loch Delter Pach took far, far longer than I hoped it would, but I

I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but whenever I'm working on mundane, repetitive tasks, I start to get antsy. My focus wavers; my mind wanders to whatever else I could be doing instead; I start to feel this itch to hurry the hell up with whatever chore requires my attention so that I can move on to the next, less monotonous item on my list. I feel this way not only toward washing dishes, for example, but also toward busy work. Setting up my templates in Obsidian

Templater, Dataview, Javascript, Dataview Javascript (DVJS), Callouts, Callouts with inline query syntax, oh my! The more I play with Obsidian and its features/plug-ins, the deeper the rabbit hole goes. Just ask my partner: while he's playing "Civilization VI" on his computer or "Final Fantasy Tactics"on the TV, I'm losing myself in the world of Obsidian. I can't tell you how long it has been since something has engrossed me this much, and it's only the beginning. Days, eveni

I've been doing a thing! This is actually a slightly older version of my template, but it's a good example of what I'm working with. Before we get into the thick of it, I have very little history with any kind of coding language. I learned some HTML back when Quizilla still existed, I know Markdown well enough to get by, and I studied a smidge of Python before rage quitting when I was quizzed on concepts that were never discussed in the lessons. JavaScript, therefore, was a d

Yesterday, November 6th, Cael performed the 2nd half of Teyr'loch Delter Pach for their father, almost a year after its conception. "Why yesterday?" you might ask. "Weren't you supposed to have the session on Sunday?" Indeed, and under normal circumstances, we would have had the session on Sunday, and I would have written my blog as usual on Wednesday, but it was another abnormal week. A Year of Death Earlier in the year, I often heard friends talk about the failing health of

I'll admit it. I don't know what to write about this week. Oh, I've plenty of thoughts running amok in my head, and I've accomplished most of my usual tasks, but I have nothing new or insightful really to share at the moment. Mostly, "Yup, another week of keeping my nose to the grindstone." With a little bit of luck mixed in with the work I've already been putting in, I should be ready for the concluding half of Teyr'loch Delter Pach come Sunday. I've edited the most problem

To keep the momentum going from the post-vacation return to normalcy, I figured I'd go ahead and write a brief overview of my accomplishments, the bulk of which I completed yesterday and today. Teyr'loch Delter Pach We did manage to get through the first half of the Teyr'loch Delter Pach during our vacation, and as of right now, I have a soft goal to finish editing, putting together, and possibly performing the 2nd half by the end of the month. The first half took the longes

Since my partner is on vacation and we have a busy week ahead of us, I won't be going as in-depth with this post as I would like, which saddens me a hair because this week was a treasure trove of learning and accomplishments. While there's a slim chance I might blog next week, I'm skeptical that'll actually happen. That said, I've been continuing my trend from last week and staying up waaaaay too late playing with Obsidian and reading/watching tutorials for Templater. As some

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