Update, and November throwbacks shared on Myminifactory :)

Hi guys,

So! First things first, I'm still very excited to get the sewer videos out (there will be 5 now...I have to split them down a bit!), as well as the STL thank you's I've been working on with Fabio!

Those may be delayed by illness, but the STLs in particular will have the exact same budget put into them for each month, and will be released to everyone who was here in the months they were planned for (November, December) even if I can only get them to you a little later - I've got lists of who was a member when, so you will get your thank you :)

The videos too, I will be getting to you guys as soon as I can, there are now 5 of them, 1 of which will be a bonus video (the corners of the tiles, much like I did for the water tiles).

Unfortunately, due to circumstances far beyond my control (though not for lack of trying) these will be delayed more than I would like. For the past week, what has been a bad time with Long Covid got worse, and over the weekend I practically collapsed again.

For 3 weeks now, my work pattern has gone from being able to work 6-8 hours a day (a massive improvement on before), to reverting to barely being able to manage 3-4 hours, and more recently, 2 if I'm lucky.

I truly believe I am still healing, and this is just my body fighting a hard fight right now.

So I'm going to try and give it the support it needs. I planned to take two weeks holiday over christmas, though I had hoped to be better by now. Instead I'll be taking it off to convalesce and hopefully, recover from this hard patch.

If anyone wants a rough idea of what its like, imagine waking up every day, both drunk AND hungover, to varying degrees (but always pretty bad). You recover a bit by evening, but by then you're tired and the process starts over.

LC is different for everyone (I count myself lucky I havent suffered the pain and discomfort Faye has with hers), but hopefully you can see how it would be hard to work creatively with that level of disruption to brain function!

I am hoping that by the new year my brain will feel less besieged, and I will be able to continue at a more reasonable pace - though frankly until I'm fully better I really don't intend to push myself, I think it's just counterproductive. It goes against my every instinct, but I'm going to have to be more careful.

Again, your reliable support has been a huge help with recovery, as stress makes it worse, so knowing I don't need to worry about declining income is invaluable. Thank you all so much, from the bottom of my heart.

These videos will come out, you will get your STL thank you's, and sooner or later, I will be better and back to making things at full pace!

Until then, have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and I'll be curled up in the Archive* 😅

Matt

*I will be popping in on discord, if you really do need me, but not daily like I do usually!