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Bad New Everybody

I can always tell how long I have been away from my blog by how many plugins need updating.

Well I’ll start with the bad news.

My favourite coffee shop is closing down. Nothing to do with not making money but because the office block it is part of needs the space for showers and cycle storage1. Which is a bummer.

But there is also good news.

I have finally started writing again. I was being super productive and trying to use most of my time.

And it made me go mental. I just couldn’t relax without worrying I was wasting my time. I got so pent up with it.  The stress was effecting my writing and my full time job that pays for my bills.

But after having relaxation  forced upon me (I have been off from my full time work due to sickness) I was watching to shows I had started not finished.  I was idly writing idea for stories and the pressure had gone away and I was not stress as I was before.

I need to worry less about not using the most of my time. And take time to make sure I relax.

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The lesser spotted Lurgy

I write this I am recovering from a spot of Lurgy. Or is it The Lurgy. I am always unsure, should you call it The Flu or it just Flu. Or it a illness scale “Last year I had flu but this year I had The Flu”. That is without going into where Man Flu sit, which my Fiancée assures me is a real thing.

Started to come down with a cold last Tuesday. Wednesday it got on to my chest and roughed me up a bit. I have what you might call a weak chest. I had a chest infection when I was 27 and ever since then when some cold gets on to my chest it f**ks me up. I spent a lot of time sweating and being completely out of it.

Now me being ill is not new but it hampers my writing as it happened at the start of two days off straight. Normally I will get the odd day here and there as I work in retail. So I think it is what I get for planning two full days after working five days. I work with the public a lot and it means I am front and centre when comes to illnesses.

Anyhow I did was realise how cool Alto’s Adventure is. It was only game I could play in my fevered state. I played on my Apple TV and all took was a pressing single button. It became quite zen and calming after while. Broken up with small spells of my freaking out because I had got to the furthest distance marker.

I also played a lot of SteamWorld Heist by Image & Form. It is set in the same universe of SteamWorld Dig (my favourite mining game) and full of cute steam bots called Cowboys. It is a cute and fun game. I was made aware of it by Jam_Sponge of the excellent DaftSouls podcast. He said it was like Xcom and I see what means. Xcom Two always feels like when things go wrong, it is you who made the mistake. SteamWorld Heist is very similar in that regard. It came out on the Nintendo DS store awhile ago but as I don’t have a DS I had to bide my time. Music to the game is supplied by Steam Powered Giraffe.

I also listened to a lot of Bukle’s Podcast(Aka Adam Buxton) which is very good.

And the Literature and latte are finally releasing Scrivener for iOS. Which I thought would never happen. I knew they had gone to beta testing the program but I had expected that it would take the amount time it took them to get that point ie six months to a year. Well that is what I get for not trusting Keith. When it comes out I will put my thoughts on using it here.

TLDR I’ve been of work for just under a week and I was so out all I could do was play Altos Adventure as it was the only thing I could get my head around.