Raw Data:
Novels - 14 ↑
Short Stories - 1 ↑
Manga/Graphic Novels - 1 -
Comics - 1 -
Average Rating - 3.06 ↓
Pages - 3044 ↓
Words - 1059K ↓
The Bad:
Usagi Yojimbo: Samurai - 2stars of realizing I'm done with comics and graphic novels in general
Tide of Unmaking - 1.5stars of young adultness
The Good:
Homicide Trinity - 4stars of Nero Wolf novellas
The Monster Hunter Files - 4stars of monster hunting short stories
Miscellaneous Posts:
- American Independence Day, July 4 (2025 Edition)
- Update
- Holy Armor - MTG 4E
- [Journal] Jane Austen: Persuasion
- Announcement: Barbara Cartland Buddy Read
- Holy Strength - MTG 4E
- [Guest Post] Plagiarism
- Howl from Beyond - MTG 4E
- Spaceballs 2 Trailer
- Howling Mine - MTG 4E
Personal:
Batten down the hatches, Hurricane Blabbericus has arrived!
This month was completely taken over by me having a "6th Optic Nerve Palsy" in my left eye. Basically, one of the muscles froze up (it happens to type 1 diabetics) and my left eye couldn't track with my right, which gave me double vision. Thankfully, all of the tests came back clean, so it wasn't because of a mini-stroke or anything. It just happened. But I spent a day and a half in the ER and then 2 weeks of trying to get some doctor to give me a plain diagnosis. Thankfully, the eye specialist I see did an admirable job of explaining it all to me.
I have to wear an eyepatch on my left eye, because the double vision makes me nauseous, like perpetual motion sickness. Thankfully, the eyepatch takes care of that. It does mean I can't drive, I can't use sharp instruments and I can't do anything to jar my head (like walk through the woods and fall down), so I have been out of work all month. Originally, the eye doctor said I could probably go back to work mid-August, but after a follow up visit, she said the recovery was slower than initially expected so I will now be out of work until the end of August.
I do have short term disability through work, but that has been a nightmare. First they sent me the wrong paperwork and the insurance company rejected my claim out of hand, but didn't tell me or the HR person. It wasn't until I started calling (almost 2 weeks later) that I found this out and got the correct paperwork. The problem is, there are 3 different sections, one for me, one for my employer and one for the doctor. The first two are easy to get filled out, but getting the eye doctor to refill the paperwork is going to be something else, just because of how busy and swamped they are. But I'm hoping to get that taken care of next week.
Not being able to drive and be independent is a real killer. Thankfully, because I use an ereader, my reading hasn't suffered. My blogging didn't (on my own site) because of how far ahead I schedule. I was emotionally raw all month and it didn't take much to set me off online. I tried to minimize such times though by not going online as much, which did help. But there were a few times where I just blew up in a comments section, not a time I'm proud of :-( I burned a bridge or two, and I know I'll regret in the next couple of months, but right now, I don't have the emotional skin left to think anything more than this about it.
Speaking of bloggy things Wordpress.com also switched Ad partners. That led to a lot of problems, mainly that the partner they were using used scam ads and redirects and other scum moves. Here are the various posts on the Official Wordpress.com Support Forum talking about it. The "staff" (who I am not convinced are human any more) assured everyone it was all taken care of, but it obviously wasn't. It mainly hit the free blogs and many wondered if it was a pressure tactic by Wordpress.com to get the free people to upgrade to a paid plan. Several days later the complaints stopped coming in, so I assume the issue was fixed. But it never should have happened in the first place.
On the positive side of things, we took our car to a different mechanic and he passed it for inspection without any of the issues the first mechanic said the car had. Obviously, somebody was lying. But that means the car is set for another year, so one less stresser on my shoulders at the moment.
Plans for Next Month:
Read. I expect my reviews will be either a bit harsher than normal or shorter, given how I was feeling when writing them.
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