The Point

The blog was down for nearly a week. Apparently, this was intentional on the part of Google.

I am neck deep in the Google ecosystem. This blog is hosted on Blogger. I bought the domain from Google Domains. My personal email address is with Gmail. So, I gave Google Domains my personal Gmail address when I registered the URL for this Blogger hosted blog. Gmail, for whatever reason, sent the email verifying my email address (essentially Google talking to Google about Google servicing Google) to my Spam folder. I wasn't expecting this email, so I didn't check my filters. Over the last month, Google Domains has repeatedly sent warnings that my domain would be turned off if I didn't verify my Gmail address directly to my Gmail spam folder. I remained unaware this was happening. Last Monday, Blip! - no blog. I mean, it hardly matters at this point, I'm the only one reading this drek. But, it's the principle of the thing! So, I gave feedback three times over the course of the week. Their feedback form is the only form of support I can find from Google for Blogger issues. Considering I STILL haven't heard anything back, that's a ZERO for customer service. I was, WAS, so excited to put this blog on Blogger.

This week has given me the opportunity to reflect on this project. The point of this whole project was to give me reasons to play solo games. I have been working on this project for a month and I have yet to roll a single die. I have spent nearly a grand on new equipment and various odds and ends, I have written more both here in this blog and in my journal than I have in the last year and I have been drawing, and actually drawing far better than I thought I could. (Yes! That's some of my best work. Shut up!) But I haven't played a single game nor produced a single video.

I think I missed the point.

I think I have bitten off more than I WANT to chew. I have made EVERYTHING into content. Instead of doing videos of me playing games, I'm writing tables for games I've never played and gluing crap to other crap and writing and drawing and it feels like I'm so productive but in the end I have really not produced anything I set out to produce.

I have issues starting projects and not completing them. Maybe part of stopping that behavior is realizing when I have gone crazy with a project and killing it before I just drop it out of frustration.