February 3rd, 2021 – 861

~ Sam Shuttleworth

You know one of these days I’m going to write “I really need to write earlier tomorrow” and then actually do it. That wasn’t today if I hadn’t made it abundantly clear in the general tone if fed-upness I’m exuding at present. If today had two saving graces, I got a lot of work done and I got all the remaining flat tasks done that I needed to, so life is a bit rosier all told. So yeah, that’s the good.

I think it’s fatigue, and that I really need to ask about taking some annual leave tomorrow for next week. If I don’t I’m going to crash again, and not in the fun way, even if the fun way sees me getting appoplectic with rage at, well, Crash. Stupid ice physics, even if it is improved…

Oh and right now to try and relax enough to write I am replaying Mars Power Industries Deluxe, and man this might be breaking into my favourite games of all time list. It’s absolutely gorgeous. I want a boardgame version. If you haven’t, do yourself a favour and buy this game, it is worth it. I really need to do my article series on my favourite games…

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.