Well, you’re probably not surprised that I’ve been riding in the Great Cycle Challenge – I finished my planned 400km, but I had ten days still to go in the month, so I added another 100km to my target, because why not?
More surprising, and considerably more inconvenient, my laptop died during the week, and between replacing it and setting up the new one, I’ve got very little productive work done this week. Two steps forward, one step back.
A slow week for me, between my full time job and my riding for the Great Cycle Challenge – indeed, I did a 40km ride yesterday that caused me to be late posting this week’s update. But I’ll be back to regular Sunday posting next week.
On my other sites this week:
Pharmacoepia Fantastica: A handful of new drugs added this week: Black Forest High, Ca-Fix, fijana, Painaway, Relaxon & Scramble for a total of 164 drugs now described on the site.
Reading Orders: Updated The Saga of the Skolian Empire Reading Order .
This week I have actually done a shitload of work on one of my larger projects… and it was all mostly admin, which while it does help me reach my goals, doesn’t create anything directly visible for you to see. Yet 🙂
I also shared the great Keating! The Musical with some good friends who hadn’t seen it, and got a lot of riding for the Great Cycle Challenge done. And when I say a lot, I mean that on Friday, the tenth day of the challenge, I passed the midpoint of my riding target. I also smashed my fund-raising goal for the year, taking my all time funds raised over the nine years I’ve been doing this to over $10,000.
So I’m not feeling too bad about having very little else to report.
The major thing that’s been happening in this last week, unsurprisingly, is that I’ve been riding up a storm for the Great Cycle Challenge. As of my last ride today, I was at 129.9km completed out of 400km for the month – and I rode that in only 5 days, on three of which I worked a full time shift. I’m honestly rather surprised myself at how quickly I’ve been managing this.
On my other sites this week:
Pharmacoepia Fantastica: A handful of new drugs added this week: Essence of Terror, Sinister Sauce and Tincture of Tenderness for a total of 158 drugs now described on the site.
Reading Orders: Updated The John Wick Chronology.
Another week of mostly working on stuff that’s not yet ready and preparing for the Great Cycle Challenge.
On my other sites this week:
Pharmacoepia Fantastica: A handful of new drugs added this week: Cernadine, Euphorazine, Profillica, Teamocil and Zanotab for a new total of 155 drugs described on the site.
Reading Orders: Added The Marvel Universe 14: The Late Eighties and its attendant event reading orders: Fall of the Mutants, The Evolutionary War, Inferno and Atlantis Attacks.
These weeks, they may look slow, but that’s because I’m working on stuff that isn’t ready to go public yet. But the time will come, for each of them. And of course, getting in shape for the Great Cycle Challenge is not uncomsuming of my time 😉
On my other sites this week:
Pharmacoepia Fantastica: A bunch of new drugs added this week: Ascomycin, Beng Lie, Cuppliance, Engorgulate, Mei Kuan, NasoPRO, NasoPRO Silver and Tricetyltriparanol bring the total up to 150 drugs described on the site.
Not gonna lie, this was a slow week for me. Practicing for the Great Cycle Challenge is time consuming. But bits and pieces got done. In particular, the Kali Yuga Countdown once again ticks down to the inevitable end of all things here.
On my other sites this week:
Reading Orders: Two orders were updated with new releases, The World of the Five Gods Reading Order and John Birmingham’s Axis of Time Reading Order.
Pharmacoepia Fantastica: Only one new drug added this week, but like I said, it’s been slow going. X-Drugs is the 142nd drug to be described on the site.
This week has been a slow one, between putting the finishing touches on my game for Haven and feeling a little under the weather, this has not been an amazingly productive week. But my health and the weather both improve, so I’m optimistic of future accomplishments. As this goes out to you, I am just finishing up running my Call of Cthulhu one-shot (or I should be if all goes according to plan), so that’s another project done and dusted.
I did manage to get some stuff done this week, including adding some more drugs to the Pharmacoepia Fantastica, with 141 fictional drugs now listed on the site. The new additions are: Agony, Baccaran, Bliathol, Devilweed, Luhix, Mordayn Vapor, Mushroom Powder, Redflower Leaves, Sannish, Terran Brandy and Vodare
Every year for nearly a decade now, each October, I ride my bike to raise money for this charity. The Great Cycle Challenge raises funds for the Children’s Medical Research Institute, specifically for research into treating, curing and even preventing cancer in kids. This is a subject dear to my heart, as a cousin of mine died of leukemia when we both about 12, and he should have had more time. I hope to do my bit to contribute to other kids having opportunities he did not. I like to think he would approve.
In deference to the fact that I have shifted from pure pedal-power to an ebike this year (albeit, one that only gives me power while I pedal), I have increased my target distance to 400km over the month of October. And because the total amount I’ve raised over the years is so tantalisingly close to $10,000, I’ve also increased my fundraising target to $1274 in the hope of reach five figures this October.
It’s a worthy cause, donations over $2 are tax deductible, and I hope you’ll consider donating here or join in yourself here.
The big news this week is the return of the all new, updated and reformatted Annotations to Keating! The Musical, the first part of the relaunch of my main site, The Centre Cannot Hold. You can find them here.
Aside from that, not a lot to report – various things in the background are coming along, but I’ve been busy being social this week, so I got a little less visible work done. Hoping to see some of you at Haven next Sunday, and in the meantime, have a great week folks.