When I made the happy near year post, I honestly thought the skies were the limit in term of having “a good year”, and after the dumpster fire of 2023, I came into this year with a lot of plans, all of which were slowed down because I was just too optimistic.

First thing’s first. I’ve been fairly inactive because of my uncle passing, and a house move that took place last year in 2023. In April of this year, Sabin, my cat of 18 years finally passed on of old age. It was just a busy, and somewhat depressing chunk time that felt like punches to the gut every time I turned around. It was hard to just sit down and blog without just negativity/trauma dumping that I didn’t feel like doing. I wasn’t gaming much, wasn’t watching anime. The reviews I was working on had layers of cynicism I didn’t like, so I didn’t post them. They’re all just sitting in the drafts, and most will be scrapped and re-written now that I’m not so stressed out.

At the time though, my efforts just weren’t in blogging, my heart wasn’t in it. I was far more invested in my family, and live streaming, and that was about it. That’s not very exciting, I know. It is what it is, though.

We continued to stream through all of it, Kresh and I, and Ruka continued to work on artwork although she needed a long break. Early on this year, I forget what month exactly, someone totaled her car and landed her in the hospital because that idiot jumped lanes when they weren’t supposed to. I have strong feelings about that, as you can guess. Ruka is fine, she has a new car now, life goes on… yada, yada, yada… all of that to say though, that massively slowed down projects we wanted to do, like a comic series here on the blog, which is what Ruka was working on, as you can see from the happy 2024 post I sent out at the start of the year… but I’ll leave that little taste here as well:

We are still working on the comics series, but dang we were slowed down more than we like.

On the topic of my cat Sabin, well…. what does one say after 18 years of spending time with a furry companion that is as much family as the people. He was a good boy, deeply loved…. also, he was a small feline asshole in almost every dimension, slayer of drink glasses, and headbutter of headsets on live streams. He only ever really liked a small handful of people. That was just his way, he was my cat, I was his human. There was a bond there, and the loss was incredibly tangible. What more to say than that?

He was just old, his kidneys were failing him, a thing known to happen in older cats, By the end of it all, well, I suppose I’m just glad he’s at peace. My favorite picture of him is the one on the website, sitting by my notepad. He… really was a good boy.

Well… we have a new kitty, her name is Ruby, (yes named after Ruby Rose of RWBY, just like Sabin was named after Sabin of Final Fantasy VI.) She’s around a year old. We adopted her two weeks before Sabin passed away. So for two weeks, he had a little sister…

As for Ruby, I’ll do a post about her soon enough, if the real interest strikes me. Sabin was a ham for the camera if I had my phone out, but Ruby really isn’t interested in that. She’s young, and would rather be watching the birds in the window, or romping through the house than staying still for a picture. She’s a pretty cat, with tortoiseshell markings, but “tortitude” is a thing, and she lives up to it, lol. If you own a tortoiseshell cat, you know what I’m talking about… but, it’s so worth it.

anyway, that’s all for now. I’m going to get around to finally placing out some actual content soon, and when I do, it’ll be a lot of fun. Kresh and I are working on some bigger stuff, so once it comes out, it’ll be posted up on the blog. Until then, I’m just going to end this here…

See you all soon… with proper content, of course.