I often joke about how at the rate time moves my life will be over before I know it. It's hard to believe it's October already, so we're in the final quarter of 2023.
Most people probably save their retrospectives for December with their end of the year posts, and I usually do my own in January (largely because I don't post more often than once a week and I won't know what last minute books, games, and anime I'll squeeze in the last minute of December). So what October means for me is a general sense of running out of time.
How much did I write this year? Am I ready for another round of NaNoWriMo in November? Did I make any progress on my gaming backlog? Fall is the rush to squeeze in everything I've been putting off all year. I'm not one to make new year's resolutions in January so much as try to complete all of them in the rush to December.
Usually something gets missed. I keep trying new ways to track and manage my time, and I like my current time tracker, so when I wonder "Where did Friday go?" I can actually say "Yes, there was a doctor's appointment, I went grocery shopping afterward, I fell asleep the rest of the afternoon, chatted with gaming friends in the evening, and then played video games until bedtime." So I know what I'm doing. Managing it is still work in progress.
It's interesting being able to see where my time is going, and being able to skip month to month or days at a glance (I'm using a tabbed spreadsheet). Sometimes I use it for something completely unrelated to time management such as "When did I have my last MRI?" since I know I'll find it in there.
But still, time waits for no one and 2023 is already on its way out.
I expect to do NaNoWriMo in November, and I'm mentioning it now because I expect to start my VN Talk series for Radiant Tale next Monday and I'd like it to run uninterrupted for the six weeks it'll take to finish, which will take us midway into November, and a little late to be making NaNo announcements. I really enjoyed this game, it was my single must-play of the year, and though it has its share of things I'm going to complain about, I want to say that the reason I tend to point out the various things that didn't work for me in these various story-based "Talk" posts, is because I like these kinds of games and I wish they had done better. I only ever cover games I like enough to complete.
I'm not sure what will come after Radiant Tale on this blog, but I would like to finish at least one more otome visual novel and one RPG period before the end of the year, though depending on the kind of RPG it might not be post-worthy material. Etrian Odyssey III keeps giving me funny looks and it always bothers me when a game I'm partially through (and still plan to finish) comes out with an HD remake because my playthrough has taken that long.
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