Finally, a confirmation (Patreon)

Another week gap, this is becoming a bad habit, isn’t it? Not that there was much to talk about last week. Physio happened, was painful, I improved. I also wrote.

This week was mostly the same, although I got good news. After an on the spot, not official, evaluation, I got confirmation that my therapy will end on the 13th of march. I’ll take my vacation time so I can fly to Toronto to attend Furnal Equinox on the 20th-22nd, then fly back to Calgary and get back to work on the 26th. 

For those who plan on attending the convention: https://www.furnalequinox.com/ you can find me in the dealer’s den at Table F3, look for the “The Tiger Writes” Banner.

I had to go into the office this week to evaluate a potential driver, unlike the first time, I took a taxy since it’s covered by WCB. The driver never showed up, and when my manager called our driver who had referred him, it sounded like there had never been any intention to show up. It also sounded like the previous conversation between my manager and the potential driver did not go well. Even before overhearing that, I was not surprised the driver didn’t show. Historically very few potential drivers show up to evaluations.

Over the two weeks, I wrote Chapters 15 to 24 on the second draft of Protecting the Line. I finished Chapter 2 of Wyatt’s story and started on chapter 3. I’m officially giving LRK’s story a break until I can figure out what to do with it. 2628 got chapters 25 and 29.

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The edits on Taking the Line have begun, and I need to figure out what to do for the cover.

I watched Wreck it Ralf 2 ‘Ralf Wrecks the internet’ it’s a fun movie, and considering how long it’s been out, there might be spoilers in what follows.

One of the visual strong point was being able to show just how crowded the internet is, how invasive some adds can be. Story was, it was an interesting exploration of friendship in the face of a changing world. I heard complained about the inclusions of the Disney Princesses, but I enjoyed their quick scenes, both for poking fun at the ‘Disney Princess’ trope, and because they do a reversal and give the princesses the chance to safe a big strong man for once.

One the weak side, the ‘insecurity virus’ was way too much on the nose. I get this movie is aimed at a younger audience, but come on, kids are smart enough to work it out if instead they had said the virus seeked out ‘weak security’ and then it targets the characters insecurities.

Still this was a fun movie. I’m not sure if there will be a 3rd one, but what I would like them to do, now that the arcade is online, is have Ralf meet the Ralf from another arcade.

So that’s it, I’ll see you on the next one.