Beginning of the Second Half of the Year

In the blink of an eye, we are now at the start of July, the clear demarcation of when the second half of the year begins.

I'm not sure if this is a side effect of age, or a side effect of apparent bliss. I seem to feel as though time had passed much slower, that more than a year has passed in the time it took for only half of it.

Work is steady but a tad uncertain---we're in the middle of a transition phase after all. I've just completed my first original composition and the first draft of its arrangement and am working on my next original composition for music. I am running a little low on novel ideas but there's still four months more before I have to commit to some plot for this year's NaNoWriMo. Aikido training is restarting albeit slowly, and with a little luck and discipline, I should go for my next grading for it---it's been nearly 5 years since my last grading and it's definitely time to move on from that.

I started on the Witcher series of games earlier in the year, and now, am on the third one in the series. I am liking the lore of the Witcher itself, even reading the books right about now as I am playing The Witcher 3. There's a certain sense of depth and beauty amongst the complexities that lie behind Geralt, the titular Witcher in the video games series and book series. His on-again off-again relationship with Yennefer and his morality are an interesting insight perhaps towards how the Poles look at themselves and at the world.

The latest reboot of DOOM isn't too shabby. It feels like what Duke Nukem Forever could have been instead of the lamed out version of the game that we were presented some five or six years ago. ``Glory kills'' are just another name of the ``Mighty Foot'' attack, and the run-and-gun mechanics are just the same. The main difference is that in DOOM, there aren't any wisecracks from ye olde Doom Guy.

But ah, nostalgia. T'is a weird lens to look back into the past.

The future is getting a little brighter. Soon, I'll find myself settling down more than before, running a household, raising a family, rearing children, and then I'll be waxing about how life was not like what I had expected when I was nearing twenty.

At that point, I don't know if Blogspot is still going to be running. If it is, I should still be updating this blog, or an analogue like it.

That is perhaps the lasting ``legacy'' I can leave behind before I go.

Till the next update.