Bowsette?

What is up with the huge number of Bowsette cartoons on Hentai Foundry lately (and elsewhere)? It's fine with me if other people like them, but despite enjoying pictures featuring Princess Peach, for some reason I find the Bowsette pictures uninteresting. Not a turn off, just uninteresting. And lately it feels like I'm wading through way too many of them. It's a pity there isn't an easy way to filter them out, as with the guro and scat pictures.

Oh, and I'm still around, just not up to much which would be of interest to anyone here. Had a recent stay in the hospital, but I'm back home now and (mostly) better.

Hiatus Update - Extended

This is an update on where things currently stand. I doubt that I'll be getting back to writing any time soon, and possibly not for a long time.

I had what I thought to be a solid employment opportunity lined up only to have it fall through at the end for reasons which seemed, to me, to be inadequate. I suppose it seemed otherwise from their point of view.

At the moment I'm having to devote a lot of time to training to broaden my skill sets, in order to increase the available opportunities. So I just don't have time for a lot of other things, like writing. Besides, I strongly suspect that if I were to write anything at this time, what would emerge would likely be extremely dark, even by my usual standards.

While there's probably an audience for that, it isn't really what I want to do.

So while there's always a chance I'll be hit by a burst of inspiration or two, it should be assumed that I'm signing off for some time to come.

Break

Got some things going on right now that are taking my attention. It will probably be at least a week before I can get back into things here, maybe more. (Hopefully not as long as my last hiatus.)

Rearranging

Spent all day rearranging a couple of rooms in the house, mostly swapping their contents. Only got about halfway done. It's times like these that one realizes just how much debris one has accumulated.

Summer is the Pits

I despise summers.

During the winter, when I'm too cold, I can always put on more clothing. During summer, once I'm down to skin, there's nothing else to be done.

Upgrade complete

The operating system upgrade is complete (Fedora 24, a Linux distribution). All seems to be working perfectly, bar a couple of third party software packages I only use infrequently, which have not yet been updated to the new libraries.

I am also working on another installment of Erotic Nerima Encounters, which I hope to post to the blog later tonight or, at worst, sometime tomorrow.

Time Off for Upgrade

Not doing too much with erotica at the moment, since I'm in the process of upgrading the operating system on my main computer. So far it's going smoothly, and I'm at the stage of confirming that all the little fiddly settings are working the way that I want. Hopefully I'll be back to blogging something interesting in a day or two.

5 More Months

Sorry to disappear again so soon after my last reappearance. What happened was, almost immediately after my previous post last October, I was laid off and fell into a severe depression. I spent a score of years at that fucking job, before they tossed me aside. Of course, I understand why. The company was moving in new directions, and didn't need as many people maintaining the existing parts of the business. And getting rid of me meant cutting a pretty large salary out of their costs. Yay, loyalty.

I can't afford to retire yet, but at my age it's not so easy convincing someone new to hire me. I'm still looking. I'm not digging into previous investments yet, they at least gave me a decent severance package so I've got a bit longer to go, and I've got some prospects. But you can understand the depression.

Anyway, I wouldn't go expecting to hear too much from me in the near future. Of course, if anything does turn up, you can be pleasantly surprised. I have been working on a little project lately, but inspiration is very much a come and go thing at the moment.

Sometimes it's hard to remember those heady days when I was first writing MV, putting out chapters rapidly. So much shit has happened since then. Here's hoping life gets better again someday.

Ten Months Later

Hello everyone. Sorry about the lack of response. Mea culpa.

I'm still here. Still struggling health-wise. I'm currently taking a little less than a score of pills each day. I have good days and bad days, but the good days are usually spent catching up on real life things that were put off on the bad days.

I wrote a sketchy chapter for a new story a few days back. I'm not sure if it will ever see the light of day - I'd first need to resolve exactly where I'm going with it, and it would definitely need some polishing. On the other hand, I offer this information as evidence that there's a chance I'll publish something more at some future point.

I doubt that I'll return to Greenery Day. I'm just feeling completely uninspired where it's concerned.

I'd still like to return to Moxibustion Violation someday. The big problem there is that more than four years have passed now, and if I were to start adding to it the first thing I'd have to do is to go back over the first 29 chapters carefully and re-learn everything I did in the story, since I've forgotten a lot of it. And that feels like a rather daunting task, making it difficult to get up sufficient enthusiasm to tackle it.

So if there were any chance of my posting something in the near future, it would most likely be a new story. Hopefully something short, similar to Examination. But I really have no idea whether or not something like that is going to happen.

The Curse Strikes Again

I purchased an external hard drive for my computer, and set up to have everything backed up to it once a day, every day. It seems to be working fine. Hopefully any future problems with my home computer will not lead to a loss of precious data.

So how else can the curse strike? A couple of weeks ago the primary hard drive in my workstation at the office died! They put in a new drive, but were unable to recover anything from the dead drive. Oh well - this is a major company. They make backups.

The backup was unrecoverable. Something about an encryption that got fucked up. I'm like, what kind of million to one chance is this?! Just who in the netherworld did I piss off that much?

Luckily - and I say this through gritted teeth - I had just taken that business trip overseas in September. For which I took a laptop on which I had copied a lot of material from the workstation. Which I was able to copy back from the laptop. So there was a lot of important stuff which I didn't lose. On the other hand, there was a lot of vital data which I did lose - including all information on some research projects into which I'd put a fair bit of work.

So things at the office have been - let's say a little hectic. For want of more expletive laden language. And naturally my health took a downturn under the stress.

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In other news, I did some more work on the current chapter of Greenery Day last night. Hopefully, barring any other distractions, I'll finish it sometime soon. At the moment, Ranma's getting a shave.

I Have Returned

I'm back.
I'm also half dead (or worse) from very long flights in spaces so cramped they'd be illegal for laboratory animals.

Recovery time will be necessary.

It's Aliiiive

I'm well on my way to piecing back together what I can of the contents of my computer. In fact, I'm typing this on my computer (the real one, not the netbook).

Naturally, when I installed the OS, I went ahead and installed Fedora 20, rather than reinstalling Fedora 19. Windows? Yeah, I have it on a partition somewhere. Heck, I even boot it up a couple of times a year.

Biggest point of pain so far is that I managed to lose a chunk of email from the period between the last backup and the crash. In fact, I was afraid at first that I'd lost it all, but I was able to recover the majority of it, including (I think) all that was sent to my HSaotomeSan gmail address.

Still a ways to go, but - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I'll probably finish the reconstruction just in time to catch the flight for my business trip at the end of next week.

It's Dead, Jim

The computer hard disk died completely this time. Everything on it is irretrievable.

Fortunately, all of my most critical data is completely backed up. That includes, for those of you who were wondering, my fanfic writings and notes.

Now I just need to get the new hard disk installed, reinstall the OS, all software, restore what I have backed up, and ... still wail and moan over some of the less critical data which was lost.

In any event, I expect to be confined to using a tiny little netbook for the next few days. Which is what I'm typing this on right now.

Oh, and just to make sure I have oodles of time to put everything back in my computer the way I had it, my company has decided to send me on a week-long business trip out of the country later this month. (Grumble, mumble.)

Computer and GD

The computer seems to be behaving so far. Thank God. I've gotten a fair bit written on the next chapter of Greenery Day. I plan to skip forward a few days, and review what happened on the intervening days in recall and flashbacks, rather than going into extensive detail on Ranma's minor variations on what he's already done. The idea is to skip to the next significantly new thing he tries.

Up and Down

So, as everyone reading this blog is aware, I posted another piece of Greenery Day last night. I was feeling darn good about that when I went to bed.

Then I get up this morning and boot up my computer. Or try to. It reported a disk error and failed to boot. And the same again, when I rebooted (hoping the previous error was a fluke). And another failure when I tried to reboot into recovery mode. As you might imagine I was feeling a bit queasy by then.

I've spent all day, outside of the time I was at the office, wrestling with it. On the plus side, it appears that only the partition containing the operating system was affected, and the data partitions are still clean. Which means, worst comes to worst, I can probably get by with a reformat, isolation of the bad clusters, and reinstallation of the OS. I'm hoping it won't come to that. At the moment it looks like I've repaired the partition, and the only corrupted files were ones I didn't care about (like obscure documentation, and icons for programs I've never used and don't intend to use). I'm keeping my fingers crossed though, to see what the coming days will bring.

Still Kicking

Several people expressed relief after my last post, to hear that I'm still alive and kicking. So I thought I'd follow up and say (1) yep, I'm still here, (2) there's no indication that will change in the immediate future, but (3) I am reaching the point where "getting up there in years" is an appropriate description, and my health is still in the toilet. Retirement is a few years off yet - not much chance of an early one, more likely a late one :) - so most of what energy I have is devoted to making a living.

I have been finding a little more interest lately in this side of my personality, possibly due in part to a medication change a couple of months back. I've been doing more checking up on hentai cartoons, reading erotica (ok, not to put to fine a point on it, porn), and thinking about scenarios. At the moment I'm writing this I'm in the middle of a few days off from work, and was hoping I might actually get myself to write a little something, but so far the muse has been proving elusive.

I do have a sense of determination to do some more writing. If my health will just hold out, and inspiration will take me in its teeth and shake me.

Alternate Pink (and Link)

So it's been just over a year since I last posted here. Sigh. My health pretty much completely crashed. I'm feeling a little better lately, but don't know yet if I can count that as a trend. I have been getting caught up, slowly, on the toons over at Hentai Foundry. I'm hoping that's a good sign.

What if Pink bred aphrodisiacs instead of poisons? And her twin Link bred antidotes, of course. They still became Shampoo's enemies (perhaps a few years later than canon) when Pink dosed Shampoo who then let Mousse have his wicked way with her. Until Link happened by and gave her the antidote just as the happy couple were having a screaming climax.

Now years later, they're determined to ruin Shampoo's "marriage". They show up in Nerima with plans to dose Shampoo when she's around guys other than Ranma to make her cheat on her "husband". And likewise dose Ranma when he's around girls other than Shampoo. And with plans to administer the antidote to each just as their "spouse" shows up.

Of course they screw it up and dose the wrong people. Including Ranma as a girl. Including themselves. Including Genma and Soun (resulting in a shocked but very satisfied Nodoka). For the big, er, climax, Ranma goes in to rescue Shampoo from Pink and Link after the former has turned the tables on the twins, unbeknownst to him. The result: he ends up doing the nasty with all three. Then Akane goes in after them all, with some artifacts provided by Cologne (who has no intention of getting anywhere close to the scene). She needs to clear Ranma's head of the ahprodisiac's influence, but the only Amazon tool Cologne could provide to do so requires Ranma to fuck until it's burned out of his system, and Akane "sacrifices" herself rather than allow Ranma to screw his brain sane with the other girls. Except of course she starts falling under the influence of the plants herself, and stops resisting the involvement of the other girls.

I wonder if the plants would be, hmm, tentacular?

New responsibilities

Hi. I know I haven't posted in a while or done anything else related to writing.

What happened was that shortly after the New Year my supervisor's supervisor paid us a visit. It turned out that a large part of the reason was to deal with laying off my supervisor. After which I got the joy of taking over his responsibilities - which were in a real mess, a large part of the reason he was laid off.

There's good and bad in everything. Our group's efficiency has actually improved, though it has a ways to go before I'll really be satisfied. And it's nice having a greater degree of control.

On the other hand, I feel like I've barely had time to breathe in the last few months. I haven't even thought about this blog or my writing other than the odd stray thought, and I've pretty much been ignoring my email. I'm not sure when that will change either. I'm not even sure what prompted me to make a post tonight. Of course, it's not that I don't have time to spend a few minutes here and there on something like this, it's more a lack of ... attention? My concentration is all turned elsewhere.

Still I am glad I stopped by here long enough to let people know that the long period of silence wasn't precisely ominous. My health, while still diminished from former robustness, has not grown worse lately. Though I'm sad to say my sex drive has never returned to its former dizzying heights either. At least it's still strong enough to occasionally enjoy fantasies such as cuckolding Ranma and knocking Akane up.

Preparing to vote

No interesting posts today, I fear. Aside from bring work home from the office, I need to look over the local races before voting tomorrow. I've already made up my mind about the larger races, of course, but I haven't really paid any attention to the smaller, local things yet, so it's time to do so.

Happy Halloween

Well, Halloween is over. We had more trick or treaters than I expected, despite the storm wrack. As a matter of fact, there isn't all that much debris left, at least scattered around instead of in piles — things have been cleaned up pretty quickly. Admittedly, there has been a very regular buzz of chainsaws for the last couple of days.