Captian's Log Sinus Infection 4 Dec 2023 Okay, I'm sick. Sinus infection. Not fun. Missing work, but not being creative. Not reading or doing anything that requires a modicum of mental focus. Feel like a complete degenerate.…
Captian's Log Drive Home 3 Dec 20232 Dec 2023 As I drove home, a slow malaise crept over me so that even the insanely contorted plot of the Wodehouse audiobook I had playing turned from a delight to an…
Captian's Log What I Had Before 25 Nov 2023 The love goes out of everything, and everything is dead. Pleasure is gone, and pain won't sting, won't roust me from my bed. I want to be alive again, if…
Captian's Log Thanksgiving 2023 23 Nov 202318 Nov 2023 Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a lovely holiday. It is somewhat traditional to choose some particular thing to be thankful for, and there are many blessings in my…
Captian's Log Life Update: Short Stories 4 Nov 2023 Well, I've caught something of a cold over the weekend. Feel fairly miserable and disjointed. Can't hold my thoughts together. Trying to write is hard; my reserves of self-control are…
Captian's Log The End of a Dream 30 Oct 2023 I've been thinking about a dream I had on the 16th. The part that really stuck with me was the end where I was looking through a glass as my…
Captian's Log Just a Dream 28 Oct 2023 A dream befriends a dreamer in the nighta song, a singer under stage-lighta wish, a child, a promise made,and I know that I'll fadefor all is transitory hereand all is…
Captian's Log There 21 Oct 2023 We searched the cold and winter nightunder weak and dreary lightthrough the snow and wind and hailuntil we passed on through the veiltill we pushed on past our hopelost in…
Captian's Log Trying to Make It Through 13 Oct 2023 I do not understand my life nor comprehend my days. Of late, things seem an endless strife, and I walk in a haze. I'm tired, and I want a nap;…
Captian's Log Dark Gods 8 Oct 20237 Oct 2023 How soft the shadow creeps the specter, Death, awaits and something in me weeps and something in me hates. Above me, clearest blue, above me, pine-tree bower, and here, a…