So, right after Breath of the Wild came out a ton of stuff happened in my life which made uploading stuff and dealing with social media in any capacity emotionally very difficult because for the past two or three months I have been almost constantly super stressed out. First, my manager (to whom I was her assistant manager,) got a new job and left us, shouldering me with the management responsibilities unexpectedly - without any management training whatsoever. Our one employee also went off on a vacation right then, so we were understaffed, for two weeks running on just two staffers, me and another guy until I managed to hire a new girl. Then, just as everything had started getting normal and our fourth staff member had returned from the UK, we unexpectedly discovered that our owner had sold our store right out from under our feet.

We were all fired, but luckily the new owner hired us back. Still, the whole experience, which hasn't quite calmed down yet, was enormously stressful and horrible. Long term, I'm not sure what's going to happen - at the moment I am sort of just feeling out the new situation. My health is just starting to improve again, with my normally massive appetite actually returning for the first time in at least half a year (usually I am fully capable of eating an entire large pizza to myself; lately I have only been able to eat a fraction of that.) The stress I went through set back the healing of my injured dominant arm (which has been treated to having both tenosynovitus as well as tendonitus at the same bloody time last December) and I've made a resolution to get my butt moving on getting some physio for it so that its annoying injuries can go away. Through this whole experience, Breath of the Wild was an incredible life saver - no matter how awful my work day was, when I came home, the vast, beautiful, wide open stretches of Hyrule were waiting for me. If I didn't feel up to beating shrines, I could hunt stone talus, or simply ride around on my noble horse Cadbury killing moblins and bokoblins for shits and giggles. (The equestrian combat in that game is top notch!)

I'm now back to working on my creative career. I have a bunch of Copic art which needs scanning and uploading, but if there's one thing I procrastinate hard about, it's scanning. I need to find a better solution to that, like a scanner mouse or something, because I really sort of loathe our scanner - it's just so tedious! Not sure really what to do. Currently, I'm trying to chug out a 12 (+ or -) page practice comic so that I can see if I really can produce a graphic novel. There will be animals involved!

Anyway, that's a lot of blather; I apologize for my slowness in getting back to anyone who has reached out to me, this is literally the first time I have returned to this website in months. I'll be more present again from now on.