That’s the benchmark I just hit, and I’m not sure whether to be excited to have hit that number, or sad it took so long. I imagine some sights do that kind of traffic in less than an hour. But you know what? I’ll take the win. Ten thousand individual views of my various forms of content. Images, video, audio, and written posts. Even my interconnected short story series has a chunk of those views contained within it. Yes – yes I believe that I will be happy about what I have done, and not compare it to other things. I choose to take the win in the spirit in which it was given. Congratulatory. With animated fireworks even! Go me!
I’ve had this cough now since Thursday, and it isn’t accompanied by a runny nose, fever, tummy troubles, or any other major issue. Except that the sudden explosive bursts of coughing has caused my throat to become sore in spots. I can (as of this moment) still swallow without issue, and I can eat/drink without trouble. Gets worse when I lie down, or recline, otherwise it just kind of bubbles up every so often. It isn’t constant, and feels like more of a nuisance. Quickly running out of cough syrup here though. Wish I’d have though to bring more.
It is the holiday Monday, Labour Day to be exact. This is it, the last possible day of summer break 2024. Soon my phone will start to blow up as other parents try to figure out if their kid has any friends in their newly assigned class. It won’t be set in stone until the first week of October, so no cause for celebration just yet. Lots of shuffling/juggling of kids left to do between then and now. By this time tomorrow my wife will be at work, and both of my kids will be in class.
I’m going to celebrate with a visit to the driving range. And possibly a bunch more cleaning around the house. The gardens, and the leaves coming down will take up a bunch of my time soon enough. I need to cut my grass too. We never did reach a point this summer where the grass stopped growing. Really strange (read : wet) summer this year. Rain fall for the record books if I’m not mistaken.
Funnily enough a big draw, and portion of the 10K views was due to the images, video, and play by play of the war gaming terrain I built during the height of the Covid lock downs of 2020/2021. I still have all four boards displayed in my basement. I did however get rid of the secondary buildings I’d made. Four “stores”, and the bad guys hide out which was just too large, and too similar to the Inn I’d made first. So now that Inn is loaded to the tits with all the 3d printed interior terrain items, like beds, boxes, chests, and sacks of coins. I have an itch to build more, but I don’t have anywhere to keep it at the moment. Isn’t that the story of our lives.
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