JUNE 2025

Man… I was really feeling myself up last month cuz I got so much done. Then the first week of June happened.

So first, my mother-in-law had to get hospitalized ON MY BIRTHDAY! (She’s fine now) Then on the following Tuesday my phone died. Just- POOF- Dead. Battery was half full, no indication that something was wrong, no notifications, no notices, no updates, just POOF! Screen went black, and no matter how long I charged it, no matter what charger or cord I used, it would not wake up.

I had no idea a simple electronic tool could be so disruptive to one’s life. We as a society have become so overly dependent on smart devices that losing it is like suddenly being locked out of your own house. I hate this fact. At least I was fortunate enough to have a family member that had an iphone that wasn’t too out of date to give to me. Imagine how devastating it would be to not only lose your smartphone, but also pay a king’s ransom, or sell a kidney, or add ANOTHER monthly bill to buy a new one quickly? 

Because I didn’t have access to a phone for several days, and had to spend several more days moving all my stuff back in, I couldn’t clock into my day job for a week. And because of THAT- I MISSED PAY WEEK, so now I have to wait FOUR FUCKING WEEKS to get my check, instead of two!! BiWeekly pay cycles need to be fucking illegal!!

AND I HAD SEVERAL TRAININGS I HAD TO SUDDENLY COMPLETE ON TOP OF ALL THIS SHIT!! AND JUST TODAY AS I’M WRITING THIS- MY DAUGHTER LOST MY GODDAMN CAR KEYS!!

And another consequence of my phone dying, is that I LOST ALL MY WIZARDRY WAIFUS!! My last phone was an android. My new phone is an iPhone. I can’t login and redownload all my save data cuz they were on two completely different store fronts! AND I CANT TRANSFER THE DATA CUZ MY PHONE WONT TURN ON SO i CAN’T GET A CODE TO TRANSFER MY ACCOUNT, MY WAIFUS ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY THE PLANNED-OBSOLESCENCE DEMONS CONJURED BY TECH CORPORATIONS!!

I can’t rescue them until I can get my phone to a repair shop to get the data extracted, WHICH I CANT DO CUZ I GOT NO FUCKING MONEY!!!

So without my waifus to keep me occupied, I ended up back on reddit. And OF COURSE this HAD TO BE THE MONTH shit goes down in the middle east, and now my feed if filled with people declaring that WW3 is about to start. Which, in all honestly is not whats going to happen (people have been saying that every time the east lights up since 2006) but, ya know- STILL NOT A GOOD VIBE FOR MY DEPRESSED ASS!!

So basically, I got NOTHING done all month!

…well except Blade Busters. The updated pdf is now available on Itch.io. I have achieved my Q2 quota, so at least I could comfortably crash out. Otherwise, this is the top contender of the worst month of the worst year of being an American. Yet, considering everything else that’s happening in this country, I’m hoping that this is the worst it gets for my personal life.

If anything, I’ve had the release of Mecha Break to look forward to. I’m gonna spend the first week playing that after suffering from mecha-withdrawels for four months. After I get that outta my system, it’s all Zelda RPG, all day* everyday* until it’s complete.

(*or rather, for as many hours as a full-time working parent can be provided.)

But until then, I’m gonna lie down now. fml