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Longhaul


I cook, I play music, I paint, I read ... and every now and again I might write something.

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  • 209 weeks
    Status of The Road

    When I first started the story that now bears the title Traveling A New Road, I was in a much different place, mentally and literally. I believe I began writing this about four years ago. I had been co-writing with a very dear friend of mine, and having quite a nice time doing so, to be honest. However, something inside felt unfulfilled -- I wanted to write something that was my own. I

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  • 224 weeks
    Busy times ahead

    Back in November, I got moved to another job within my company, and for a couple of months that was going pretty well. Then, at the end of January, I got a promotion to terminal manager, which is requiring me to pack up and move a couple of hundred miles away while commuting back and forth each week in the interim.

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  • 233 weeks
    New chapter Sunday

    It may seem like a long while between updates, but this is really the only way I can maintain a schedule, and have a decent buffer to maintain that schedule. My work has been in flux, and I am adapting to a new schedule, but it shouldn't affect anything going forward.

    Thanks to those that are reading and following along, and I hope I can continue to provide a good quality story for you.

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  • 237 weeks
    Following through

    As I had mentioned previously, I was waffling over whether to publish a story I had been working on over here. I've had a few people read it, and it seems to be going over okay, with some minor corrections and edits.

    The first chapter is in the pipeline and will go live shortly. I plan to update on a monthly schedule, and I have a decent buffer written to aid me in that goal.

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  • 241 weeks
    Slushing away

    When we last left our intrepid "writer," he was looking at an old story he had started writing and was considering cleaning it up a bit and putting it out for the general public to read. Understandably, he was nervous about this, because this was the longest story he had written by far (without a co-author) and contained elements that were sure to provoke ire among many core groups of readers.

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Mar
27th
2019

Carefree highway, let me slip away on you... · 3:12am Mar 27th, 2019

Some of you may have read my last story and are seriously concerned about my health status, physical and mental. I suspect a greater portion read it and couldn't give a shit either way, and more still never bothered to read it at all. This blog post is primarily for the first group I mentioned.

On the whole, I'm doing okay. My body's been giving me troubles, especially over the past couple of years, and I'm dealing with it as best I can. I have a few medical procedures that need to be carried out. One of them, surprisingly, is fully covered by my health insurance, such as it is. The other I have to cover out of my own pocket and I'm hoping I can set aside enough money to do that. Should any of these tests reveal anything abnormal, there's nothing I can do to correct it because I simply don't have the money. Sometimes I think I'm better off not knowing and just letting nature run its course.

In regard to "just letting go," yes, I've been thinking about it a lot. Enough so, that my doctor prescribed some medicine and asked me to seek out either some form of counseling or find more positive ways of dealing with it. Like I haven't been trying to deal with it for the past forty-odd years or so. I admit, with all of the worries that are piling up, I've been thinking about it more and more.

I don't talk about this much, mainly because:

  • (a) No one gives a shit.
  • (b) There's people out there with problems and maladies much worse than mine, enough to make mine seem insignificant by comparison (which ties into (a) above).
  • (c) I'm not all that important (again, see (a) above).

In summary: I'm okay for the most part, don't worry about me because I'm not worth the time, I'll be around somewhere until i'm not.

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Comments ( 2 )

Point a) is simply not true!
b) thither is always somepony with worse problems, meaneth not thine are insignificant.
c) everypony is important.
I still extend mine hope for the better results of thy tests.

*hugs* I love you, Longhaul. Everyone is important. <3 Feel free to talk with me if you need an ear.

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