I’ve decided to date these entries to make it easier on the stats end to see which posts are being read. Particularly after last week’s sudden spike from places afar, I’m kind of curious which of my writings are being absorbed into whatever LLM the CCP is building.

Testing The Rig Happenings – You know it’s been a slow week when my lead item is that I pulled out my new and improved travel workstation setup to test it and make sure everything interfaces okay. For the short time I ran things, it all seemed to work. I had to do some unplug/plug cables, but fear my fully armed and operational travel workstation.

Writing Happenings – I finished draft 1 of my isekai experiment. I’m going to set it down for a bit and let it percolate while I go work on the fourth installment of the Irregulars. The isekai is challenging because I have an aversion to info-dumping, and it feels like I need to do info-dump to get enough of the protagonist’s backstory to make everything understandable. So, how much do I explain versus how much do I let the reader discover? My original plan was something in the 20K word range, which allows for some world building and exposition. I’m toying with expanding to 50K and really fleshing it out. This is why I need to let things percolate for a bit.

Weight Happenings – The good news is that I didn’t gain this week. The loss was less than half a pound, but I’ll take it. Progress is progress. Especially now that I can change my carry rig to IWB. Next week? Well, let’s just say The Wife and I went a little wild on Veterans Day. Current: 271.4; Tollgate: 250