Why There Wasn’t an Episode This Week

Hi. This is something I haven’t told most people, but to a degree I have a contract with you patrons, so here’s a quick explanation of why our schedule was disrupted this week and might be in the near future. I found out last week that Thurman has liver cancer, and the process of determining what can and should be done about that has taken up a lot of my time. On top of that, I also developed a weird skin rash all over the right side of my body that is painful and also super gross. It’s probably a stress reaction to the situation with my dog, but we don’t have test results back. Between doctor visits for Thurman and then also me, I simply haven’t been in front of a computer enough to get podcasting done, and while I am trying to get back on something of a schedule, I don’t really know what my day-to-day is going to be.

I am basically only posting this because people who follow me on social media might have noticed that I went to the new Nintendo park at Universal Studios this past week. I felt like that seemed like bad optics, because it happened after I announced there would not be an episode this week. This basically happened because I am seeing someone and starting a new relationship and it was his birthday and this seemed like an okay way to do something nice for him. Plus I thought I could use some stress relief. It didn’t really provide any stress relief, since a day away from productivity is a day away from productivity no matter whether I’m waiting in a doctor’s office or at an amusement park. I maybe wasn’t in a great mindset for an amusement park anyway.

This is a super difficult thing for me. Please, do not reach out, because the more I have to talk about my dog being sick, the worse I feel. I’m not discussing this on social media, just because I don’t really understand why anyone would feel compelled to share their personal pain with the world. Most responses just amount to the personal version of “thoughts and prayers.” I would rather interact about things that make me feel more like I did before I had to deal with this.

As it stands, we’re trying to record a new GEE for Patreon on Monday, and then February’s CTMUG on Friday.

Please bear with me on this one.