I miss the days when this blog was much more active and I'm not happy with the minimal posting I've done over the last several years. I'm at a point where I need to make a decision about what I'm going to do moving forward. I'm not going to erase the contents of this blog, but I might just shut it down and leave it here in case anyone tis interested in the posts or some of the other content; I do have people still downloading the Adventures in Fantasy character sheet from time to time so that's cool. Some of the things that will affect my decision or my ability to post regularly will be discussed below.
WORK COMMITMENTS
In January of 2024 it will be one year since I accepted a position in the Quality Assurance department of my employer. Of course, the increased salary came with more responsibilities and more time commitments so that will definitely affect how often I can post on the blog. Fortunately, the decision to accept this position was the correct one because I do enjoy my job and the challenges tremendously. On top of that, we are in the process of launching two new models of school bus so that will definitely be demanding on my time as well. I would assume that from December of 2023 to the end of the first quarter of 2024, it will be the most challenging period for us.
SUBJECT OF POSTS
The main subject of this blog will still be roleplaying games and related subjects with various posts about reading, miniatures, fan films, and pretty much whatever else grabs my attention. I know the OGL drama seems to have settled down, but I think I'm going to look into moving away from using the OGL to post anything. I'm most likely gong to post nothing but house rules like new races, new monsters, etc. from my campaign but I think I'm going to play it safe and use a different format other than Delving Deeper to post the information. Make no mistake about it, Delving Deeper is still my game of choice and I will always recommend it and my home campaign will be ran using it. I just think for posting stuff in a public area such as this I'm going to use a format inspired by the old gaming products of the past that were "close but not quite D&D". Maybe I'm being too cautious? I'm not a lawyer by any means and I don't have the time to commit to writing a new clone from scratch at this point. I did take the time, however, to come up with this new format in a 2 page pdf. It still needs a little bit of tweaking, but I will post it here in the near future.
POST FREQUENCY
At this point, I think the best estimate I can make for 2024 is committing to post once per week. I can use whatever subject I like so the post may come any day of the week. I could post for "Miniature Monday" one week and then "Fan Film Friday" for the next. That does NOT mean I won't pick up the pace at some point but once a week should not be an unrealistic goal.
REACHING THE DECISON
I plan on evaluating progress every 90 days of 2024. I've also started bullet journaling for work and for home/recreation so that has helped me quite a bit. I like having concrete plans on paper that I can look at and track progress. I never used the bullet journal method before, but I used to track things much better and I lost that in my recreational activities, so it fell by the wayside and took a backseat. Hopefully, I can maintain a healthy and productive work/life balance from now on. It's not unhealthy right now but it is somewhat lopsided, and I need to correct the course. Let's see what happens on the road ahead...
