This blog has been dead for exactly two years (last post 1 January 2020);\u00a0 I didn’t mean to stop writing, but between things going on in my personal life and Covid (mainly Covid), I’ve been focused inwards, not outwards.<\/p>\n
First, an apology to anyone who followed this blog, and the couple of people who contacted me here through the unplanned and un-posted hiatus.\u00a0 In future, if I take a break I will post, rather than ghost.<\/p>\n
I’ve reached a point where I need to get back to a new normal, and putting up stuff here is going to be part of that.\u00a0 However I’m going to try to pickup where I left off, and put more emphasis on the Dilettante part of the blog name.\u00a0 I feel most comfortable reviewing books, but during Covid, I’ve fallen back more on video games then books (as will be made stark in a subsequent post), I’ve long been into board games, and I’ve been trying to broaden my horizons (for example I’ve taken up Gunpla <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>).\u00a0 All of this means that I will try to write about more geek culture than the books.<\/p>\n I’m also tossing up whether to post some non sci-fi stuff here – I have no other writing outlet, and I have things to say.\u00a0 If I do, I’ll make sure to tag them in such a way that anyone who doesn’t care about science, politics, math or other stuff can ignore them.<\/p>\n I won’t get anything up for a couple of weeks, but then I’ll start with my year in books for 20 and 21, and then maybe my experience building my first gunpla.\u00a0 Then I hope to give an brief retrospective on Pratchett plays in Brisbane (which I’ve attended a few of now) and video games.\u00a0 If I decide to include non SF essays, I tried to collect some thoughts about my reaction to September 11, and if I give them a pass I’ll put them up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This blog has been dead for exactly two years (last post 1 January 2020).\u00a0 I didn’t mean to stop writing, but between things going on in my personal life and Covid (mainly Covid), I’ve been focused inwards, not outwards….I’ve reached a point where I need to get back to a new normal, and putting up stuff here is going to be part of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[54,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}