Checking back in on day 211. Yesterday marked 30 WEEKS! did not feel much different than the last post. Been working a lot, and trying to get my life back into balance, so I have been highly absent here on KTC compared to the first 150 days or so. Feel guilty about not posting everywhere that I had been previously, but was definitely getting burned out as well as ignoring other things in my life: family, friends, mainly the wife. My Valentine's day gift from her was an engraved bracelet with just one word. I have used that word over and over here in my intro, in November, in January, whenever I have to refocus. That word is balance. Balance is key, in the beginning, we tend to replace one addiction with another addiction: give up chew, obsess over KTC. AA folks tend to overdo it on smoking or coffee(at least what I can tell from the AA meetings portrayed on TV,never actually been to a meeting, no offense intended) 200 plus days in and working hard to get that balance back in my life. Done conducting, so no more late nights staying up to flip their roll (kinda felt like the old days staying up late to get one more dip in.) Making sure to get up early to get the kids ready for school, post roll ASAP in a couple spots, work all day, jump back on KTC to check out the day in November, chase down the missing, update the SSOA. Crash out, wake up , rinse, repeat. Crash out, wake up, rinse, repeat. Crash out, wake up, rinse, repeat. Get the picture?
We have recently purchased a travel trailer that should help a lot with the balancing act. We want to travel and see this great country of ours before we even really think about traveling abroad. So many things to see here and places to go. The kids are all concerned about "Will the campsites have WiFi?" My answer is pretty much "I hope not, I need the reality break; the escape from connectivity." But in the end, there will almost surely be Wifi, mainly to keep the kids from getting too mischievous.
The last of our November ABQ will hitting the second floor in less than 2 weeks. Obviously the next big stop after that is 300 and then hitting a full year quit. All of that is too far in the future to even really think about. For now, I am quit today, as I made my promise this morning. Stressing about anything beyond today as far as that goes tends to get things out of balance and the whole goal is getting back into balance. "Each player chooses a number of lands he or she controls equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way." How does something so simple, and so "fair" looking, so completely throw things out of whack? GAME CHANGER, that is Balance, and that is KTC for me.
