My Actifit Report Card: April 27 2022
Migraine worse today, but I was able to get some of the work done for the client so I don’t have to feel bad about that at least. I spent most of the day listening to audiobooks because I can’t really do much else.
Listened to a critical biography of Noam Chomsky. It was a little too neocon for my tastes at times, but also quite interesting because I just didn’t realize how extreme he was politically.
Been thinking about getting my projects done and what comes next. Kenoma, obviously, is going to be front and center for a while. The scope expansion means a little more minimum viable product, but also a little more room for future stuff and I don’t think that’ll be a problem in the long run.
Carrion Birds was supposed to be done this week, and that’s slipping away because I just can’t get anything done with this headache going non-stop. Absolutely awful. I had a brief window today where I probably could’ve written, but I spent it working for my client (I probably could have done that at another time because the threshold for writing well enough for anything that needs to hold up to lots of scrutiny is higher than the design work I was doing for the client, which was basically just iterating from sketch to semi-final product).
Started Thomas Sowell’s Vision of the Annointed, which is a good book as far as I’ve gotten. I’m more into the Austrian economists than the Chicago school folks, but Sowell is pretty good about keeping his eye on things and sanity checking them, unlike Milton Friedman who often spirals out into some pretty weird and counter-productive fixations.
Going to bed early, in part to give myself a better shot at sleeping enough to be functional tomorrow between the migraine pain and my usual issues sleeping due to my stomach. At least it’s somewhat okay. I’ve taken a little aspirin, so I hope I’m not going to see any stomach issues as a result but I think I’ll probably be fine.
Other than that, I don’t think there are a whole lot of things to report. My best friend called me and we were able to have a little chat. The foot’s feeling better, though still odd and not quite great. I almost wonder if I’m not on it enough, at least from a certain perspective, and I’m feeling some of what I would normally feel after being so stationary due to this dang migraine pain.
I mean, it’s to the point where I plan to do all my stuff when I get up in one trip, sort of a round-about “hydrate + eat + hit the bathroom + pay attention to the cat” routine instead of just getting up when I have to do something. That’s something that probably helps me avoid eating more than I should given how idle I’ve been, but it’s also not the most fun way to live.
Still, I complain but this is going to go away sooner rather than later. Probably overnight, I’m hoping, or maybe tomorrow at the latest. In any case, life’s good other than the pain so there’s something to thank God for there.
Really glad I worked ahead so aggressively on my Year of a Million Words project. It’s not fun to watch my lead wither away, but it’s also nice to know that I’m not in too rough shape.
I did have some ideas for Genship Exiles, since I’ve been working on stuff. Basically I’ve had a hard time figuring out a game design for it that’s classy and fully developed for players but also light-hearted and easy enough for most players.
And I think I figured it out. It’ll have characters who are developed using a series of traits, each of which have a value (technically, I’m thinking it might be Trait+Skill, with Trait determining dice number and Skill determining dice type), with the ability to add from a pool of dice that are determined by character, social grouping, and progress through the campaign.
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