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Lack of Sleep, Take the Wheel

I'll be real, I kind of forgot that I had this. It's been a long time since I wrote last. What can I say? I've been busy. I remember a time when I was extremely optimistic that I would get one of these posts out weekly. I bring it up all the time because I still think it's really funny. "The first one wasn't so hard," I thought to myself, "I can manage one of these per week." Well, unfortunately that's not how brains work, and once per week, turned into once a month, turned into... nothing. And now here I am awake at 3 A.M. because I had a need to write. Although now that I find myself sitting at a keyboard, it occurs to me that the late-night muses failed to impart me with any particular topic, so this is probably going to get more unfocused before it gets less. Listen, I'm not pleased about it either buddy, but we're both stuck here now so let's make the most of it. Truth be told, I'm awake at 3 A.M. for a lot of reasons.
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Connectivity

Well it has been long enough since I posted last that when I logged in to my account I had to clear away cobwebs before I could type in the password. It was all so dusty, and I'm pretty sure I saw what I hope was just a rat scurry away behind the URL. I knew I should have deleted my cookies. Regardless, I am back fresh from GenCon 2019 with a lot of feelings and a whole bunch of brand new reasons for you to stop reading if you have not already done so (see previous sentence). GenCon, for those of you who may not know, is one of, if not the largest tabletop gaming convention in existence. While I don't have exact numbers, I believe the estimate I heard for con attendance this year was somewhere in the 60 to 70,000 range. Tens of thousands of people traveled from all around the world this past weekend to stand in celebration of their various tabletop gaming hobbies and passions, to get inside scoops on new games and products, as well as to revel in being surrounded by a sea of ne
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Headcase

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There may come a day when I don't feel the need to add a disclaimer that I am not an expert in any of the things I write about, and that everything I say should be taken with that particular grain of salt. After all, we get to sit here and pretend that I didn't write and re-write this paragraph nine different times, only to end up with this. We have that luxury, so it's only fair that I disillusion you as to how it came about. Not only that, but I am certain that if some of my college professors were to find this blog, they would have quite a few things to say about how I have committed crimes against punctuation, grammatical conventions, and quite frankly the English language as a whole. This blog is prone to its rambling, I use far too many intentional run-on sentences, frequently stretching the comma to its absolute limit and beyond, and I only proofread for content. And speaking of content, let's talk about mine. What is it? Do you know? Because it doesn't rea
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Mundane Kindness

I come to you today bearing proof that time isn't real, because apparently it has been over a month since I started this blog. Somehow it feels simultaneously like a million years ago, and like it was yesterday. It feels like everything except for the amount of time it actually has been. "Chill out, dude. It's only one month, and you skipped several weeks of it." Fine, it's not that big of a deal, but it did get me thinking about why I started this blog in the first place. No, I'm not talking about the need to externalize my inner dialogue so as to keep away the psychosis. I'm referring to the inciting incident in this hero's journey of disappointing proportions. The call to adventure that began the epic quest to the other room to sit in front of a blank page for indeterminate periods of time. The rousing battle cry that... Okay, you get the point. In fairness, I wasn't entirely sure where that last one was going anyway. There are limits, it se
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For Whom the Die Rolls

Okay, so I would be lying if I said that I didn't dream up this entry entirely because I came up with a marginally clever literary pun, and then found myself casting around for a topic befitting the title. But as I am a fan of bad puns, poetry, and tabletop role playing games, I decided to just roll with it. So, allow me to explain what this entry will be about for the two of you who are still here after my immaculate punning. Why is he yelling about Dragons? Why indeed, subheading? For those of you who know me, it's no secret (even if some of you wish it was) that I am one of those weird people who plays that game where people pretend to be dragons, or whatever. That's right! I'm talking about good, old-fashioned, Satan-summoning Dungeons and Dragons. I love D&D. I love it with all of my heart, soul, and checking account. I will talk about it with anyone unfortunate enough to bring up anything even remotely related, and I will talk until I see their eyes beg
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Starting at the Beginning

Welcome to Write of Hand! Before we start I want to be very clear: I have no idea what I'm doing with this blog. After all, it's no longer 2010 so I don't even know if people still use these. That isn't really the point though. Two of my favorite activities (often times pulling double duty as my least favorite activities) are thinking, and writing. Every once in a long while, I do both of them at the same time only to find that I have no outlet for them. I mean, I suppose I could become one of those people who spills their inner most thoughts and desires on to social media, airing their dirty laundry for all the world to see. Plenty of people do it, and I don't begrudge them that. In a way, I kind of even respect them for it. But my own feelings about social media can be aptly, if flippantly, summed up by one of my favorite Doctor Who quotes: Doctor: "Imagine that. Human souls trapped like flies in the world-wide web. Stuck forever, crying out for help.&qu
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