I don’t know when it started, but my earliest memory of wanting to be a writer was in third grade. My teach gave us a project where we had to write a story to match some printed out drawings and form our own book from it. She knew it would be something I was interested […]
Real Life
Experiencing Everything – Proquest #013
When I was a kid, around thirteen or fourteen, I liked to pretend I was immortal. I was going through that phase where children begin turning their imaginations toward things other than make-believe play and I was starting to mourn the loss of schoolyard fantasies. Pretending to be Dragonball Z characters at recess was no […]
Thoughts on The Book of The New Sun – Proquest #012
It feels like every half-decade or so a new book rises up and takes the number one spot in my list of favorite works. In high school if you’d asked me, I would say it was Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Twelve years ago it was Orson Scott Card’s sequel to Ender’s Game, Speaker For The […]
Austette is born! (6 months ago…)
2023-11-21 – Today marks the birth of my daughter! Yep that’s what I wrote six months ago before being distracted by something and immediately forgetting about this post. Looks like the last thing I wrote was Minecraft Memories almost a year ago. Whoops. I didn’t forget about the blog, it’s just been hard to find […]
My Memories In Minecraft – Proquest #009
My son has recently grown a great fondness for Minecraft. It started with the 3DS version he got for Christmas before I finally convinced him to try the Java version on PC. His excitement for the game has incidentally pulled me back into a rabbit hole that I started down over a decade ago. It […]
Dragon Quest Treasures Has Taken Over Our Home – Proquest #006
I get pretty obsessive about DQ, so it was out of the norm this year when I found myself not at all hyped for Quest Treasures. I didn’t really have a clear picture of what the game would be like and the fact that it was born from the ashes of an abandoned DQ Monsters […]
Pneumonia Sucks – Proquestination #002
School Sickness Season is upon us! Aust Jr. started his first year of preschool in mid-August and the Nerevar House hasn’t been healthy since. The First Sickening Cold number one occurred around the twentieth of August. My son was actually sick on the day of his birthday party. The poor little guy only had energy […]