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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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May
25th
2019

Results are in · 11:36am May 25th, 2019

Last month, I underwent a full chest CT and a colonoscopy as part of the joys of getting old. The results of both are in.

The chest CT was clear, amazingly enough, even after being a hard-core smoker since the age of ... 11, I think I was, and not quitting until 10 years ago this past February. The colonoscopy found two small polyps (small meaning under 4 mm) and the biopsy on those came back benign.

So, the good news is, nothing in my body is imminently going to kill me.

Insignificant whining under the spoiler bar, read at your own risk.

I'm still working on the belief I hold that I do not deserve to be breathing the same air as everyone else and lately have been contemplating methods to achieve the goal of not being alive anymore. As of yet, I have not had the desire to put those plans into practice, but even with the medication, I don't know what's going to happen day to day. Please don't suggest therapists, I don't trust them anymore and can't afford it anyway.

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Comments ( 3 )

I understand completely.

Thoughts of suicide are constant, because of pain and what not. They are, for the most part, involuntary. They're just there. A constant presence that troubles me a bit, but I do not act on.

*hugs dearly*
I'm glad thou hast nothing threatening physically, mine friend!

Thoughts are simply thoughts, even those alike. I shan't commit a crime against Truth if 't be true I neigh that everypony hath them.
The difference, major difference, lieth in one clenching their teeth an trotting on, at which hour another folding their wings and crashing into the ground. Please keepest going, I know thou art strong enough for that :twilightsmile:

*hugs tight* Always here if you need me, my friend. I love you.

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