I lost some time once...

July 2017.

That was the last time I wrote in this journal. It was three months after I had migrated my LJ over here permanently (TL;DR - LJ's Russian owners were implementing some truly horrible policies regarding LGBT). My WordPress has sat fallow for even longer, but I digress.

I basically didn't touch this journal for the six months leading up to my leaving Kroger. I assume that, by then, I had gotten used to the idea of not posting in a non-Facebook capacity. Hell, except for some heavily-filtered entries on exactly how Kroger was killing me, I wasn't up for posting much on Facebook, either.

A lot has happened since that last post, of course:

• I was written up twice in two weeks for conditions on my Front End, and had the schedule writing taken from me.
• My strongest person on the front got promoted to backup at another store, after I was told that he wasn't strong enough to do it for me.
• My assigned backup was an absolute fuckup who was way in over her head, but was one of the co-manager's pets.
• I got the schedule back, and managed to get it fixed after only a month of working on it.
• The New Year came.
• I quickly realized that I had had enough, and put out a call for any job that anyone knew of.
• I heard from Sonya, who told me about a job working for John -- someone I knew from some circles I ran in -- working on computers.

By March, I was there, and while I've had my own issues there, they are mostly associated with the expectations I have in my head, rather than any concern from management about my work output, ethic, or quality. It's the most relaxed I've been at a job in... well, since at least September 2011, when I was promoted to CSM in the first place. Plus, I get to use my brain to solve problems, my co-workers are fun to talk to, and I generally have the leeway to choose when I take my breaks and lunch.

Aside from work, though, the most notable occurrence is that my creative spark is reigniting. It's a dully glowing orange ember currently, but it's growing brighter with each passing week. I've prepared and run two different D&D games in the last month, and both were unqualified successes with those who played. I'm gonna redo one of them for a different group on January 12, too, and I'm definitely excited about the prospect. Aside from that, well, there's the fact that I'm jump starting this journal again. Before I know it, I'll be reading books like I used to.

This is what's been going on with me, in short. I hope it doesn't take another 18 months to get another post put up. (I halfway wonder if I shouldn't migrate my WordPress over here, too, and just be done with multiple blogging sites. Thoughts?)