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Blaugust 2026 Group Project: Magic or Super Power

This week is about getting to know the festival participants better. As part of our Group Project of introducing ourselves, our prompt this week is "If you could have one magical power or super power, what would you choose and what would you use it for?" In a somewhat...

This One is Raw: Grief and Connection

I hadn't really planned for this week of getting Blaugust rolling and introductions to contain this post, but life rarely cooperates with our plans. This post is going to be pretty raw. That isn't entirely unusual within this blogging community. Most times we share...

Blaugust 2026 Group Project: Tell Us About Your Very First Blog

It was June 15, 2011 and I was making the leap into putting myself out there into the blogosphere. Back in those days, Twitter was an awesome place of like minded people who talked about their passions. I had stumbled on to a great collection of book and game writers,...

Life Comes At You Fast

The best laid plans... Leaving on a jet plane... This isn't how I wanted to kick off the first day of Blaugust, but life has a way of tipping over the table. Start your engines, meet you at the finish line and best of luck to everyone who is starting this journey...

Catching Up: The Games Version

The past several months have been strange as far as my gaming habits are concerned. I've always been a bit of a completionist. I rarely stop reading a book I've started. I usually try to play through at least the main story quests of my games. But something has...

Blaugust Continues – Sign Up Info and Background for 2026

I'm sure most of you who see my blog posts are already aware of the continuation of the August blogging festival fondly known as Blaugust, despite the loss of the original founder. I don't want this to be a cause for sadness, so I will only say this much. I'm sure...

Gaming Into the End of 2023

Dec 31, 2023

My pace of blog posts has certainly slowed toward the end of this year. I've been playing games, just nothing that inspires tips and tricks posts, or exciting experiences to talk about. As we end the year, I thought I'd at least wrap up with a few thoughts about what...

Starfield is Just a Good Not Great Game

Oct 9, 2023

Starfield is a pretty good game and one I can enjoy, but it is ONLY a pretty good game. It has missed the mark of being a great game. I came to the realization that they structured the game expecting us to play it again on a New Game plus mode, but I don't think I'll...

Starfield Tip Assigning Crew to Outposts

Sep 10, 2023

I'm writing a quick post to provide a tip on how to assign a crew member to an outpost in Starfield. Let's say you recruit a crew member who has the Outpost Management skill, so you build an outpost so she has something to manage. Here is what I had to do in order to...

Oddly Discontented the Starfield Edition

Sep 8, 2023

I took a walk around the first nice city we get to in Starfield last night. It is quite pretty at night and it was a peaceful walk. I talked to a few people, did some shopping, looked around the Lodge and then I just signed out of the game... I stared at my library...

Looking Forward Beyond Blaugust

Aug 31, 2023

Today I am using one of the Blaugust prompts to not only plan ahead for my blog writing, but to talk about an upcoming game. The prompt is "What are you looking forward to the most over the course of the next year?" I have a hard time coming up with "the most" for any...

Wrapping up Blaugust 2023 With Lessons Learned and Achievements

Aug 30, 2023

The final week of Blaugust is reserved for talking about lessons learned - a week that acts as a bit of a cool down so that we can share our own experiences with this year's blogging. While I haven't earned every achievement on the list, I'm happy that I met my...

What Motivates Us – Game Achievements

Aug 27, 2023

I've been thinking about what makes me finish games, what makes me play them again, and what makes me leave them to gather dust. I used to feel compelled to at least finish a game I'd started, finish reading a book to the end, or clean my plate. I'd consider myself a...

Blaugust Week 4: The Irony of My Lack of Motivation

Aug 24, 2023

Here we are in the week of Blaugust dedicated to motivation, and I have put off writing anything for 5 days. The irony is not lost on me. I hope I'll still get in a second post this week, but just sitting down to write this one has only happened because it is Blaugust...

Appreciating Game Communities Part Two

Aug 16, 2023

I want to show some appreciation this week to the glue that has held my MMO experience together. Game communities and guilds are the reason I've kept playing MMOs. Group content and raiding have held my interest in some games well beyond the point where the content in...