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For the last year or more I've been fighting constant fatigue, lethargy, depression, general apathy, and a lack of focus. While getting older and my greater work responsibilities have certainly played a role, they didn't explain everything. Late this summer, I finally clued in to a possible cause and finally a few weeks ago confirmed it after a sleep study: I have serious case of obstructive sleep apnea. I won't get into the medical description for those who don't know (Google is a thing if you want to find out) but the upshot is that I'm suffering from severe sleep deprivation, basically only getting the equivalent of 1 to 2 hours of good sleep per night.


Every night. For over a year.


Fortunately now that it's officially diagnosed, I'm getting something done about it.

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For those I haven't told already, about this time last year I received a fairly significant promotion in my day job, which, combined with several major projects my employers are involved in, seriously cut into my time and energy, aside from the other things I do. So the rendering/storytelling had to be sacrificed at the cursed alter of there only being 24 hours in a day, at some point I have to sleep, and I ain't getting any younger. Now that things have settled more into a groove, I can slowly start to up production once more.

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...and it is self-referential.
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Updates at my currently two ongoing series at two separate sites hasn't been going as quickly as planned in terms of updates because of two different issues.

The first is that last year I started a new job which takes up more of my time, especially in terms of travel, and this obviously causes problems. It's not too bad in the routine work, but I also deal with large projects (and I mean large...think budgets with 9 or more digits between the dollar sign and the decimal) that can suck up a lot of time. The second is a recurring health issue that's put me down for the count multiple times. More an annoyance than anything, but again, it sucks up time where I'd rather be doing something other than lying on a bed or on a couch waiting for things to clear up.

That said, I'm certainly not quitting. So, carry on.
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Hadn't realized it'd been so long since I wrote something. Anyhoo...

So, Master of His Domain 2. As people following the story are aware, Rudy and Co recently rescued around 100 operatives of Gray Section after they'd suffered the Bimpocalypse. It's probably not going to be much of a spoiler to say many of them--well, okay, most of them--are going to end up joining Rudy's Angels and...what? It's my group, I can call them whatever I want. So nyah.

As I was saying, with the thirty-odd people outside the central cast already hanging around the base, I realized this was an opportunity to have a few extras hanging around in the background indicating a bustling male fantasyland special operations facility. So, how many would I put together? I mean, it's not like I have to have them all or anything, so maybe a dozen or--

Oh, who am I kidding. All of them. Yes, all of them. All of the previously unseen existing people. All 100 or so of the new arrivals. I have their names already. They won't all be around for the July 12 update, but at the rate I'm creating them, (or, in some cases, stealing the base model from other settings I created them originally for) a good portion will be.

One hundred and forty-three new characters.

I need my head examined.

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