I know it’s been a while since I’ve written anything here, but we were living in a 19’ travel trailer in Mojave and I didn’t want to sound like I was begging for money.
Well, we have a house — and by “we” I mean my wife’s rich libertarian uncle, and by “a house” I mean a small apartment complex we’re managing for him. I guess it took him a while to figure out how best to exploit our misery and desperation for profit, but here we are.
I’d offer to do a meetup to meet my new Bakersfield peeps, and I hope to God I have Bakersfield peeps because already our requirements for produce have changed from “cheapest” to “has an employee with disinfectants stationed at the produce section solely to prevent and clean up after coughers and lickers” but meetups are a relic of the Before Times so I don’t think that’s a thing anymore. We do have a yard big enough for socially-distanced Dungeons and Dragons games if I ever have a face-to-face tabletop Dungeons and Dragons group again which may be another relic of the Before Times.
My depression and anxiety are worse, my neuritis is worse, and I can’t shake the feeling that my wife’s family got us a lovely apartment in downtown Nuremberg, but we are no longer disaster refugees as of today, and you all helped us through the dark times once again, and you have a right to know.
My wife has an audiobook out on Audible as well as a crapton of young adult novels, my daughter is working on her art because who am I, a person who abandoned art to work in computers so that my family wouldn’t be in poverty in a small town in the desert only to wind up in poverty in a small town in the desert anyway, to tell her that she shouldn’t? And I guess I’m going to work on becoming a paid Dungeon Master because apparently that’s a thing now.
I can go back to doing the World of Warcraft stories if anyone will read them. I may go back to writing them even if no one reads them because writing is the hardest work I can manage and I’ll need the practice for if we lose Social Security.
Anyway, still here, still alive, still fighting.