I saw some "think piece" recently bemoaning the fact that people are starting to celebrate Halloween early, and why does fall have to creep into summer? The author was whining about how it's still August, it's still summer, I want my summer fun, waahhhhh. Look, people like me are doing "Summerween" and pulling out fall decorations because summer is the worst season, hands down. The only reason anyone likes summer is that the American public school system has conditioned us to equate summer with fun and freedom. I'm looking forward to going outside without my flesh vaporizing because the sun is 200 feet from my front door.

I get cabin fever in summer. I have to get my workouts done early in the morning and retreat home before the heat gets really bad. It feels like I "never" go outside.

Anyway, I haven't had much going on here to write about, aside from just training, keeping house, petting cats, and just existing. I've finally felt like doing creative things again and so picked up some of my fiction and started drawing again. I tried posting some fiction to Pillowfort but I don't seem to be getting traction there. So one of my projects is a longhand story-game that I'm building using various solo RPG tools. That's been fun because I know I don't have to make it make sense for a reading audience, so I can just go with whatever comes up in the game, and it's already yielded a mysterious Spanish-colonial plantation, an old wise woman who may or may not be a human, and a lady who makes dorodango. I have no idea how all this is going to weave together but the fun is in finding out.

I also found I own a copy of Trokia! which may lend itself well to my St. Felix stories, since it's both very weird and very light on rules. They have their own multiverse but I'm sure I can adapt it to mine.

My birthday is tomorrow. :D

I don't have much of anything else planned for the fall. We didn't manage to snag runDisney spots during Wine & Dine, so we're taking the opportunity to have a lower-stress trip in September to enjoy the Food and Wine Festival. We also can't go to Marathon Weekend because of an all hands on deck thing at Fox's work, so my race calendar is sparse. Which is actually cool, because I'm running a 10k in October to make time for Gate River Run, then I'll just be training for that 15k. I don't have to try to shoehorn speed or hill workouts into a schedule that's mostly dedicated to making it through a marathon.The 10k is being held on the old Army base in Green Cove Springs where the military museum is now, and the course goes through some interesting areas. They still have some old bunkers and things like that.