Ramblings After a Very Long Absence

This is my first post on this blog in...wow, four years. After I got my first job, I neglected maintaining this blog while trying to acclimate to my new workplace, and then just...sort of forgot about it. In hindsight, it was a bad idea to just leave it gathering dust, so I've decided to take it off the shelf and begin using it again.

Those who have visited this blog before will notice that several reviews are gone, mostly the video game reviews. The site that the reviews were hosted on no longer exists, so I deleted the posts since they now consist of dead links. Any video game reviews I write from now on will be posted directly on this blog.

I have also removed my web story The Stolen City from the blog. I'm planning to rewrite it into something better, though I might not get to that any time soon.

I hope to post more regularly on this blog from now on. I will probably not have a regular schedule, but I hope that what I do post encourages readers to go out and experience the same works that have fascinated me. If there's one thing that makes me happy, it's knowing that something I wrote brought joy to someone else's life.

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