{"id":115,"date":"2018-06-29T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spudlink.net\/?p=115"},"modified":"2018-06-29T07:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:07:50","slug":"state-of-the-spud-june-2018-picking-myself-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"State of the Spud June 2018: Picking Myself Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot I don&#8217;t like to share about my private non-internet life, both for some attempt at security and because there&#8217;s usually not a whole lot going on. But this month has seen some developments in the direction of my life that will affect how I spend my time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna try to be as succinct as possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been working as a thrift store sales floor associate since January. It&#8217;s been pretty hard on my legs.<\/li>\n<li>Back in late March, I got a jury summons. I managed to land on a grand jury through the month of April. Grand juries don&#8217;t see just one trial, they see many per day and decide whether the state will indict and move forward towards a criminal trial. I actually enjoyed it a lot. It&#8217;s awakened an interest in working in the public sector, in a place where I get to see so many people&#8217;s stories.<\/li>\n<li>After 10-odd years, I&#8217;m finally seeing doctors. I developed plantar fasciitis from all the new physical activity, and I&#8217;ve probably been dealing with moderate sleep apnea for most of my adult life, but I still need to undergo a sleep study to make sure. This ultimately means that medical bills are a new reason to beg for money.<\/li>\n<li>Because of my newfound interest in the legal system, I&#8217;ve applied to take on an online paralegal studies certificate course. Being a paralegal or legal assistant is a potential way I can support my creative projects without so much of the crunch or dread of pursuing a volatile creative career, considering what I&#8217;ve heard and read of the game industry and whatnot.<\/li>\n<li>Patreon-wise, I&#8217;m letting the players of the Dusk City Outlaws campaign openly plan their last ultra-long mega-heist across multiple sessions. Once that&#8217;s done, I&#8217;m probably gonna run another round of SpudShots to try out some more RPG systems before I start the next big project. I&#8217;m also floating an idea of making mini-campaigns a regular thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are the major points. This is all stuff that had been brewing for a few months now. Those of you who have been supporting me and rooting for me so far deserve to know what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>I still need a lot of help, to be honest, but I&#8217;m climbing out of the hole I&#8217;ve been wallowing in for more than three years. Slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot I don&#8217;t like to share about my private non-internet life, both for some attempt at security and because there&#8217;s usually not a whole lot going on. But this month has seen some developments in the direction of my life that will affect how I spend my time. I&#8217;m gonna try to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/?p=115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of the Spud June 2018: Picking Myself Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}