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The Critical Drinker

I had an after work event on Thursday with the co-workers. In that event, I told them I was heading out a few minutes early because I’m a nerd and Final Fantasy 16 was dropping that day so I wanted to go pick it up. One of the people I work with asked if I was still going to get my article done this week or if I’d be too busy nerding out. I did my best personal rendition of the quote at the top of this post, fully convinced there’d be nooooo problem.

And now, here I am, at 9:30PM on Sunday with nothing to show for the weekend.

I had a plan for an article. Was going to be a pretty neat one, I thought. Long overdue. Had the image all picked out, had a catchy name for it and everything. Whoops.

Well, in the off chance anyone was interested in my initial review of FF16, consider my lack of a real article as evidence of how I feel about it. I didn’t spend the WHOLE weekend on it – there was also CEO, one of the supermajor fighting game tournaments that I spent a lot of time watching – but I spent more than my fair share of time with 16. It’s real fun.

Could I put together that other article tonight if I tried? Sure, but I think it deserves more attention than I can give it right now. So, sorry, here’s another “touching base” stopgap.

I’m pretty excited for next week, though. A couple of burdens have been lifted and I’ll be showing up fresh. Much to do, and, as I’ll get into below, I’ve allowed more time to do it.

Onward.

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These last couple of weeks taught me something that I only came to fully realize when I spent an hour and a half looking for one piece the other night – this Lego goal is a huge waste of time. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the idea of making sure I have all the pieces, getting these things built and organized, and using that as a way of getting things put in their place, but, again… the time. It’s already so limited as it is, this feels like such an unnecessary sink. So, with that in mind, I think it’s healthier to just drop it. I’ll post something every now and again when it gets made, maybe, but from now on I wouldn’t expect it.

Come back to me, my glorious time.