August 2008

Ladies and Gents, loyal readers, August is upon us already! To say this year is going fast is an understatement. I put the speed down to me measuring time as intervals between appointments with various NHS-related people trying to "fix" my back.

So what have I been up to recently? Well, a variety of things really.

1) I've had some fits of guilt and nostalgia and have taken it upon myself to try and get in touch with friends from years gone by, see how everyone is, and get up-to-date contact info for everyone on the off chance that they want me to visit. Some of these people I haven't heard from since I left college 10 years ago, so its really good to know that some of them are doing well, and I must confess to taking a guilty pleasure in knowing that some of them are as undecided about their futures at 27 as I am.

2) I've been reading books. Mainly re-reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books, in completely the wrong order. I've also been dipping into the world of Graphic Novels, working my way the the Watchmen in preparation for the movie release, as well as catching up on Slaíne.

3) I've been continuing to work on a particular painting. I've kinda got into a bit of a rut with it. Turns out it was a bit TOO ambitious for my current skills (and attention span), but it IS progressing slowly.

4) I've also done some writing, albeit not a lot. I'm currently working on a big fight scene towards the end of the novel and, unfortunately, its not going well. I'm finding it difficult to visualise the scene. I blame this on the painkillers which I'm currently taking too many of to block out the big spikes of pain that are happening (fortunately) infrequently.

5) I've been playing too much FFXI. As you might have gathered if you actually check my main site, a lot of the blogs/updates recently have been FFXI-related and thus not written about on this here Life Blog. Toddle over to the FFXI blog for updates on that.

That's about it for now. Not the most exciting of updates, but I did feel I was bending my new year's resolution a bit by counting the FFXI blogs as part of my "one blog per week" thing. Updates to this blog, and my website, will continue. Have a gander at the updated art gallery if nothing else. Some newish pieces in there from this year that most people haven't seen. ^_^

~Jon