Weekly Update - 11/8/23 (Patreon)

Ugh.

It wasn't Covid, but it might as well have been. On Saturday midday, I started feeling a little uneasy, a bit of pressure in my head and began sneezing a bit. I was house-sitting for a friend, keeping an eye on their long-haired cat, and while I've had cats before, I've never had a long-hair before, so I wondered if maybe it was an allergic reaction, but no, it turns out I'd just gotten some horrific kind of cold. Come Sunday, the pressure was getting worse, and I had issues focusing. On Monday, I got up at noon, took a Covid test, grabbed a light lunch, which I only ate part of, sat down on the couch to watch a little TV and lost 4 hours, waking up just before I needed to pick up my friend from the airport. After dropping them off, I came home, went upstairs, crawled into my bed at 6:45 pm and slept until 8:00 am the next morning. At that point, I got up, drove to Burger King, got two Croissantwiches, some OJ and some hash browns, drove home, ate them, crawled back into bed and slept until 2:45 pm. I also coughed up more phlegm than I think I ever have. I milled around a little bit yesterday, but couldn't focus on much of anything, went out and got a sandwich at 6, checked in with the Discord around 8, and then went to bed at 9 pm, sleeping until almost 1:30 pm today.

That brings us to today, where my head still feels like it's packed with cotton, but I can think clearly and I'm not coughing up buckets of fluid. I'm behind on a bunch of things, and I can only apologize, but in this case, I need to take my health seriously, and that meant sleeping as much as humanly possible. That means I'm behind on posts, behind on responding to emails and a bunch of other things as well, and I'm sorry for all that, but anything I'd have tried to write over the last three days would've just been me cut and pasting the word "fuck" 5000 times. (Apologies to Spider Jerusalem.)

I have an outline for Quaranteam: Phil's Tale 16 that I started up, and with a bit of luck, I'll be able to turn that into a full post today. Then tomorrow I'm going to try and get the next Neon Stonehenge out but that'll take me really cranking. I'll do what I can towards getting us back near some form of regular schedule, but I kid you not, my flatmate was talking about taking my ass to the hospital against my will yesterday, I was coughing so badly, so if it comes down to it, I'm just going to keep resting when I feel my energy draining beneath useful levels.

But, in a thing that'll hopefully make you laugh, last night's fever dreams were interrupted by my subconscious. I was having one of those "late for class and I haven't done my homework" dreams when I saw myself walk into my field of vision, dressed in black like back when I was a stage manager for school plays in high school, and the stage manager of me was like "No no no! He's been out of school for decades now, and I'm sick of this shit! We're not doing these anymore! I refuse to let this shit play out in the brain!" And then another version of me comes in from the other side and is like "Well, we've got the sets and the props and the actors and..." "I don't fucking care! Get'em out! Dude's sick as it is; we're not forcing this shitty hackneyed drivel on him! I hear one word about a test or homework and I'm busting heads, you hear me?" And I watched the dreamscape background of my high school melt away and was replaced by some Indiana Jones kind of jungle temple shit.

So sometimes even your own brain can get tired of things. Nothing's beyond change. No more shitty school dreams for me. Thanks for your patience folks.

I didn't even get stuff sent to the public sites last week, and it looks like EMCSA is off this week, so they'll get a bunch of stuff on 11/18 from me. Public release schedules are as follows: LE - 11/11 - QT:PT13, QT 2:7; 11/18 - Pack 4; 11/25 - Morgana's Gift 6; 12/2 - The Fertile Grove 1; 12/9 - Quaranteam: Aisling's Antics 1; 12/16 - QT2:8, Devil's Details 8. EMCSA - 11/18 - QT:PT13, QT 2:7, Pack 4; 11/25 - Morgana's Gift 6; 12/2 - The Fertile Grove 1; 12/9 - Quaranteam: Aisling's Antics 1; 12/16 - QT2:8, Devil's Details 8. 

Anyway, that's me. That's where I'm at, for better or worse. I'm going to get better first and foremost, and I'll start trying to get caught up after that, because a dead man tells no tales... That and apparently the first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer drops early next month, the Scott Pilgrim anime drops later this month, the new David Fincher film drops in a few days and the last episodes of season 2 of Bosch Legacy drop in just a day or two. Too much good shit I gotta hang on for...