Blogging next steps...

My blogging hasn't been as consistent as it used to be. A few things have changed in my personal life that have made blogging a little more difficult than it used to be.

1) I started a new job about six months ago. It started off slow, but since the beginning of the year, it's been much more busy and stressful. Including a number of night meetings with Japan, right smack in the middle of what would be our evening where I'm doing things like blogging. And even during the day, my time is spent doing more busy work than I was used to in my other job, and the people at my new job are people who run around with their hair on fire all of the time, so it's slightly more stressful environment as I'm still trying to figure out what is really important and urgent, and what just seems like it is but isn't really.

2) My wife has engaged us in a lot more plans than we used to have as we've become facultative empty nesters. My evenings and weekends are also much more busy than they used to be with these personal plans and activities.

Between those two changes, I've not only got less time than I used to do to things like blog, but I've also got less mental energy than I used to, so what free time I do have is often spent on more relaxing "vegetative" things, like reading, watching movies, or watching hiking videos and pop culture commentary on YouTube. I mean, I haven't even attempted to play SWTOR since... well, since pretty much I started my job back in October. I've been reading more. I'm in the middle of that Robert E. Howard horror story compilation that I mentioned a few posts ago. I've watched a number of movies. I just started this week a run on Daniel Craig James Bond movies (ignoring the most recent one, which I've decided that I'm going to pretend doesn't exist.) 

But I believe that it's important to actually have a plan and an idea of what I'm going to do next, so that's what this post is all about. I'll do this in a bullet point format.

• Chaos in Waychester only has one task left to do (other than run it), and that's make a new regional map with new details specific to the campaign. This is not an insignificant task, but it is also not trivial. I've been meaning to do it for weeks, but I have to dedicate a few hours to it, so I haven't yet.
• Cult of Undeath will start as soon as Chaos in Waychester is finished. In fact, I've already kind of started it with some early brainstorming. By the time summer rolls around, I'd like to be hip deep into this project.
• I'd like to maybe talk a bit about some of my reading, especially the genre-specific stuff, like my fantasy reading, my adventure path reading, etc. 
• Speaking of gaming, I stopped halfway through my Paizo Decontructed project on the Strange Aeons adventure path. I really would like to finish it, and then maybe pick another one to do again after that. 
• I want to start up my Friday Art Attack project again. In fact, here's a few samples just to get me back in the mood, with a theme of ratling monsters.