Originally posted at combatdavey.net

Another odds and ends post:

💻📕✍🏽 If you like Interactive Fiction and want to try your hand at it, I suggest messing around with Evergreen. It’s free and it was made by a buddy of mine.

💻📕✍🏽 That said, there’s nothing wrong with Twine.

💻🖼️📷 Kompressor is a free MacOS image converter.

💻🖼️✂️ Shotva exists to help you zhuzh up your screenshots.

🗓️📖🔍 Yes, zhuzh is a word. It was also Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day on August 19, 2020.

📖⏪🛹 Want to spend more time on Dictionary.com? Do The Ultimate 1990s Slang Quiz. Or don’t, I’m not your dad.

🇯🇵🍳6️⃣ In Toronto? Like brunch? I highly suggest Ohiru, but please note that they don’t take reservations.

🇹🇼🍳6️⃣ That said, Light Cafe is also very good —— and the portions are insane.

🙄😡 Feel like being infuriated by someone who should know better but clearly doesn’t? Read John McWhorter’s opinion piece on Springsteen in the NYT.

✍🏽✍🏽 I’m taking on some new clients come September but I will still have some bandwidth. If you’re in the market for a writer with a background in journalism, advertising, AI, and UX, I’m available. Peep my LinkedIn or whatever.

Be good to yourself.

I’m out.

Originally posted at combatdavey.net

Some odds and ends:

✍🏽✍🏽 I’m taking on some new clients come September but I will still have some bandwidth. If you’re in the market for a writer with a background in journalism, advertising, AI, and UX, I’m available. Peep my LinkedIn or whatever.

⚾🏀 In addition to here (which I’m slowly but surely turning into my home base) I’m still blogging over at oddball.blog, the blog relaunch of a sports trivia email newsletter I co-created in 2019, and at Micro.blog.

🆕🆕 I recently updated swipe so take a look if that’s the kind of thing you do.

😴😴 If you’re in the market for new sheets, I have a suggestion.

📺📺 My partner and I are catching up on Silo and there is a scene in S2E04 between Tim Robbins and Tanya Moodie that is utter perfection. IYKYK.

🧩🧠 If you like Wordle and golf you might like WordleGolf. I “shot” a -4 today. Go and beat me.

🧩🧠 If you’re looking for a new daily puzzle game, a pal got me (and I got my partner) hooked on Squaredle. I just crushed today’s puzzle but if I could get a do-over there would be a few things I’d do differently.

Anyway, as mentioned earlier there’s some grass that needs to be touched.

Be good to yourself.

I’m out.

Originally posted at combatdavey.net

Last night I started a journal entry like this:

It’s been a while, I know, but I also don’t apologize. I’ve been writing. I’ve been doing things. I’ve been learning. I’ve been discovering. It hasn’t all been in journal entries, sure, but it’s been useful nonetheless.

But yeah, it’s been a while.

When I started journaling (again) earlier this year I thought it would be a daily thing, or at least that it could be a daily thing. Now I’m not so sure. Writing is the thing I do whether I want to or not and the thing and also the thing that almost always gets me to whatever truth I need to see (whether I want to see it or not), so the journaling and the consistency with which I had been doing so was exciting —— but also scary. Like, a lot of words came out very fast and very often. My consistency felt mechanical, so the truth I was potentially barrelling towards felt unavoidable. What if it was something I didn’t want to see or know? What if it was something I wasn’t equipped to deal with? As the words piled up so did the dread.

Do you ever feel this way? Do you ever feel like you are deathly afraid of being painted into a corner while also being the guy holding the brush? I know I’m ultimately in charge of my actions, or, rather, that I am much more likely to be in charge of them than not, but I really do think some of us have a gift for self-sabotage. It is so like me to understand something so completely it feels innate ("…the thing that almost always gets me to whatever truth I need to see whether I want to see it or not") while not being able to understand that I’m able to stop my momentum whenever I want for whatever reason I want with no pain or penalty.

TL;DR sometimes momentum creates cons as well as pros.

🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch
🌳 grass
🌷 now