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Well, it's been a week and a half since layoff day. I know a couple dozen people personally besides myself that were also laid off, but given that the estimated (or reported) numbers were 3,000 white collar jobs, that's only a drop in the bucket. Freakin'... well, anyway. I've been through several waves of both excitement and anxiety and feeling a bit dejected about the whole thing, but y'know; you can't worry too much about how you feel about something when something has to be done about it. So, I rebuild my resume from scratch late last week, I created a new linkedin profile, and did a bit of preliminary spray and pray resume sending. It wasn't really that random; and I did modify each resume to tailor it to the job I was applying for, so it shouldn't be too surprising that I've had a few bites now, and some preliminary interviews on the schedule. It still kinda sucks, of course, but I'm feeling decidedly better about things now than I was a week ago today when I still didn't even have a resume yet or any idea exactly what I was going to do except in very vague terms. 

I've also decided that I can't really just focus all of the time on the job hunt; I still need to give myself evenings and weekends off, at least to more or less the same degree I was doing when I was in a normal routine with a job that I thought was secure. I spent much of the day today in particular grinding through a five hour refresher course on accounting. Blegh. I haven't been able to focus very well since. So I need to do something a little more fun tonight. I think I'll head over to Dark Fantasy X and make a few character sheets for some of the iconics that I've thought up.

I'm going to peg the iconics to level 4; in fact, I'm going to suggest implicitly, at least, that about 4th level is the iconic level of a swashbuckling horror adventurer. Anything lower than that and the iconic is too much of a novice to be considered iconic, and any more than that, and they're already starting to border on world-famous big time hero rather than simply being an iconic adventurer. If I do ever write stories about these characters, which I'm feeling quite motivated about now as soon as my working situation is sorted out, I'll do it with them being at more or less that power level in mind.

Because I didn't want this to just be a boring little wall of text, here's an image I generated using Midjourney, which creates AI art. I haven't really quite figured out how to make it create realistic human figures, but I'm sure it'll happen with more practice. Again; when I my situation yadda yadda I'll subscribe and spend much more time on it. It seems like a good and economical way to get functional yet cheap book covers.