More Of The Same...

Once again, it was more of the same stuff, different day... with a twist... Unfortunately, the twist is private, and I really cannot talk about it here. Suffice it to say that this was not how I wanted to go into a major event weekend...

Rest assured, things will get better. I just need to get through the depressive episode and get past this weekend. Any offers of help are pre-emptively appreciated, but these mood swings are things I have to get through on my own. I apologize in advance if I act like a complete a** to folks here in the next few days. It's not intentional and there's other stuff going on...

In this case, it's not you, it's MOST DEFINITELY me...

peace...

-- GopherDave

It Keeps Going And Going And Going...

Okay... More of pretty much the same stuff, different day...

The depressive episode is still lingering and I feel nothing but impending doom as we hurtle toward yet another Magic: the Gathering Pre-Release weekend. I'm not certain why I'm feeling like this. Normally, crazy weekends like what we have coming up get me excited, but this weekend is full of angst on my part, but currently it is all I can do not to curl up in a corner and pull my hair out.

I think part of it has to deal with gaming... I'm not really running anything I can get behind right now, and things are starting to bottle up inside of me. I play in three games, and they are all great fun, but I am A-D-D enough to know that I am a game master/storyteller at heart, and I think that is part of the issue. Trouble is, with all the stuff that happens at the store on a near-constant basis, I don't really have the time/opportunity to make things happen as often as I would like.

That may be the issue at hand... I may need to go on walkabout for a bit to clear my head... We'll see what can be done with that...

-- GopherDave

As Things Roll On...

Today has been a weird day already. I have been tired and irritable for apparently no good reason. Little things are setting me off. Tonight, Skribl is watching the store and I'm off at a quiet place where folks cannot ask me questions they already know the answer to.

I was supposed to have a game tonight, but PapaJosh is feeling under the weather. I don't mind, though. The way I'm feeling, I would have probably snapped at someone at the game.

As it goes, I have forgotten about the deluge of product that people want to trade in right before a new MtG set comes out. With that, I have been answering MtG questions a *LOT* today, and I do not have anymore in me.

After the last few weeks, I can see why people get burned out on doing this... why we end up with "comic book guy" store owners... Mayhaps it's been happening a while, but I am *REALLY* starting to feel it. I'm not sure what I can do about it either. People will ask me if there is something they can do to help, and I honestly cannot answer them currently. I sort of know what is going on, but I am not for certain it's what I am thinking, so nothing I am thinking is concrete.

I hate dealing with wispy, nebulous thoughts, but that's all I have right now. Sorry...

-- GopherDave

More Catching Up...

Another Monday, so it's another order day. Once that is off the agenda, I need to go run some errands for the store. For what is supposed to be my "off" day, I do a lot of work on Monday. =P

I had a nice talk about gaming with the Loquacious one as I drove her somewhere she wanted to go. We mostly bandied about games bouncing in our heads. She's got her idea that she's been blogging about, while I have a couple of ideas that germinated a bit during our talk. My biggest problem is determining when I will have time to work on them... Oh, yeah...

Off days...

-- GopherDave