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Category Archives: Accountability
A Good Day to Blog
My internet’s been out for the past 36 hours. Except my phone, which doesn’t have enough bandwidth or data for me to do my day job. But you know what a phone connection is perfect for? Tethering to my computer … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Personal, Tabletop RPGs
Tagged castles & crusades, goals, life, primary attribute, tabletop rpgs
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The Start of Things
I decided on a lark today that it might be fun to blog more this year. That’s the only goal I’m going to official commit to: just do more posts than last year. Which shouldn’t be hard. I’m currently thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Personal, Writing
Tagged exercise, goals, new years, resolutions, running
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The Weekly Recap Re-Emerges From the Mist
Feeling moody, because I’m a trash goblin and more importantly it’s Sunday and I overslept/generally stayed in bed too long. Which is like every Sunday, and a problem because if I’m not up and at ’em with my first alarm … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Hey Ian Watcha Into, Learning, Personal, Pets, Technology, Video Games, Writing
Tagged Death Stranding, exercise, failure, goals, jabberwocky, learning, pets, scottish gaelic, video games, weekly recap
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The Future (2020, at least)
Ed note: It took a little longer than I expected to get to it, but here’s the post about looking towards the future, also known as 2020. Which is 1/12th done now, but hey, another month of existential dread wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Infosec, Learning, Personal, Video Games, Writing
Tagged accountability, community, depression, exercise, gender, ianlearnsinfosec, jobs, learning, making games, mental health, python, queer, relationships, scottish gaelic, self care, self improvement, support network, video games
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November Start!
Hey everyone. It’s November! We’ve made it past Halloween, a very fun holiday that I do enjoy, but that seems to creep out further and further every year, like Christmas. Except unlike Christmas, it doesn’t have any major holidays to … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Personal, Writing
Tagged animal crossing, animal crossing new leaf, best laid plans of wolves and men, dark rituals, halloween, holidays, nanoplotmo, nanowrimo, riverdale, shivering deeps, thanksgiving, video games, writing
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Climate Strike (Anticapitalist Remix) Days 2345678 and Denouement
So! Last time I posted, I was talking about the Climate Strike I was engaging in, with the anti-capitalist twist that I tried to spend as little money as possible during the strike, to protest capitalism itself as well. How’d … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Learning, Personal, Politics, Video Games
Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, climate change, climate strike, dating, environment, food, medical, medicine, money, politics, third places, urban planning, video games
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Well Hello There
It’s been a minute, which is more and more common between posts lately, much to my frustration. Full time day jobs, depression, and exhaustion are a pain and a half. But a quick summary of what’s been going on!
Posted in Accountability, Personal, Video Games, Writing About Games
Tagged apartment stuff, clothes, dating, diet, eating, exercise, finances, food, gradschool, pokemon, school, video games, weddings
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Books and Being Offline
*another hot minute passes* *the author wonders just where the hell that phrase originated, anyway* I’ve managed to close a couple of the loops I was talking about in the last post. I finished up both The Birthday of the … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Books, Personal, Writing
Tagged being offline, books, friends, john scalzi, mental health, neil gaiman, rain, shivering deeps, ursula k leguin, writing
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Open Loops
Whoops, it’s been a minute. Life happens, you know? I’ve been doing some thinking and I think I’m bogged down recently by having too many open loops. I’m borrowing the term from Getting Things Done, which basically means “things I … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Infosec, Learning, Personal, Writing
Tagged accountability, anarchism, anxiety, brain, cars, computers, dayjob, depression, editing, feelings, ianlearnsinfosec, infosec, jobhunt, organization, school, shivering deeps, stress, technology, writing
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Summer Projects
In theory, this list could be pretty much infinite, because I’m me and I always want to do more than I can. But I thought it’d be good to put some of my project ideas out into the world. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Art, Infosec, Learning, Notes, Personal, Technology, Writing
Tagged accountability, art, computers, drawing, fixingthings, gradschool, ianlearnsinfosec, japanese, jobs, librarianship, programming, python, retrocomputing, self improvement, shiveringdeeps, technology, writing, zines
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