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I'm curious - does any ever refer to or use the calendar in my right sidebar? Because if not, I'm tempted to remove it.

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I really don't feel like writing much today - it's just one of those kinds of days. So, instead I've been monitoring my progress in Ogame - a resources management game that puts you in command of interplanetary fleets as they fight for dominance in the universe. You start out planet-locked with a starting complement of resources to begin building metal mines, solar plants, and a lot more. The idea is to collect resources, build an organization on your Homeworld, build a fleet, and set out in the galaxy to populate other planets, destroy other fleets, mine debris fields, form alliances, and more.

I swore I'd never play this game, but here I am anyway. And it really doesn't require that much of my attention. I can start putting buildings up and walk away while the processes complete. Some processes - which I haven't gotten to yet - take several hours to accomplish. I've also been fortunate to join up with my Halo clan in an alliance in the Ogame universe, two members of which sent me shipments overnight last night (one took a real-time seven hours to arrive, the other six) to help me get on my feet and get buildings put up. I still haven't built and ships or satellites - those are coming just as soon as I can get enough deuterium collected to fuel everything.

It's a pretty interesting game, and I know that once I get my fleets into the sky I'm going to have to start keeping an eye out for raiders. We'll just see how things go. This is kind of fun at the moment.

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The writing bug has struck me again (apparently what I said in the previous post about not wanting to writing lasted all of about 20 minutes). I'm finally working on completing my flash fiction pieces for the Voices in the Night project. Over the past two days, I've completed two more of my stories, leaving me with just two more get done. I'm shooting to have them finished up by this weekend, so I can then focus on getting everything pulled together, edited, and revised to think about getting it headed toward printing.

Personally, it's just nice to be in a frame of mind to write again. I didn't realize how much I'd missed it until this past week, and now that I'm back into it I almost can't remember why I put it away for the winter.¹ Once I get these stories done, though, then it's back to the novel I'm writing for my wife (which may or may not ever see the light of an actual publisher's desk) and the Gunslinger story arc I'm writing for my Halo clan. Beyond that, it's short story time again for magazine submission and - hey, why not? - maybe even beginning work on a novel. We'll just have to wait and see how things go.

1. Oh, yes, winter depression. Yeah, that'll do it. [↩]

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