A lot of you already know this, but I'll drop this here for everyone else.

Got back from my trip just fine, but some family...not drama, that makes it sound like someone's doing something deliberate, but...stuff going on, shit that can't be helped - lots of stress and grieving going on - has been keeping me from managing tags.  Deckard especially owes tags, like, EVRYWHAR.  TC and Deckard have both been going "come back when you're not so scary cranky D8" at me.  OTL

I think things are finally settling, though.  For me personally if nothing else.  I'm aiming to finally start replying to tags this evening, if not today during breaks at work (via reply-by-email, so if you ever wonder at wonky formatting and extra space in my tags, that's why).

Affects Thundercracker (notyourblueangel) and Deckard (thankyou4myheart).

So . . . the connection between my "going out of town to visit a friend this weekend" brain cell and my "kinda need internet to tag" brain cell just collided.  And made me remember that I should probably say something, no?  8D;;;

Anyway, I'm leaving work early tomorrow to drive out of town to visit a friend for the weekend.  She lives in the foothills ABOVE The Town in the Middle of Nowhere.  She does have computer internet access, though I don't know how fast or slow it is - last time I visited her, she was still on dial-up (nothing better was available where she lives) and had to go into town for anything faster.  That's been several years ago now, though, and I think it's changed?  I'll find out.  And I don't know what kind of service my phone will have.  Various carriers have various reception.  But we're probably going to be fairly busy anyway.

So I'm calling a slowatus at the very least.  Probably full hiatus, but we'll see.  I'll do my best to catch up all my tags tonight, but then I may not be able to again until after work on Monday.  Safe to assume Altered!Thundercracker is either hanging with Skywarp or hiding from Kagerou in the Junkpile, and Deckard's following McCrane around like a lost puppy learning more about Haven and how things work here, and assisting with the investigations on Ravage's murder and where the Firstforged have disappeared to and any other cases that present themselves.

I'm probably not even going to bother with Plurk over the weekend, so if y'all need to get a hold of me for some reason, drop me a PM on one of my journals.

Affects Thundercracker (notyourblueangel) and Deckard (thankyou4myheart).

LOVE YOU GUYS!

I'm going to be exhibiting in an expo in about a week which means I need to focus on getting my shit together. Additionally, Finals are also around the corner. Goddamnit what timing. 

November is a busy month for me so I'll be needing to hiatus 1 or 2 weeks. I'll try to get back to posting when the expo's done, but it's very possible I may have to extend it to around mid-December if school drops the hammer of ruthless all-nighters on me.

Afterwords, I'll be able to tag around more with schoolwork out of the way!

I can get to previously planned event logs/posts but backtagging may be necessary. I'll be on AIM (tytaero2020) or plurk (tytaero) for anyone that wants to rough out what happens. 

This weekend belongs to family doings starting tonight and culminating in a BIG birthday party for my grandmother on Sunday for her 85th.  Out-of-town family coming in and everything.  \o/  First time Nana will have both her daughters, both sons-in-law, and all her grandkids together in several years.  <3

Will continue to tag when/if I can, but gonna be a LOT slower than it's been, so figured I should let people know.  Should be back to normal on Monday sometime.

Affects Thundercracker (notyourblueangel) and Deckard (thankyou4myheart).

Stay awesome, guys!

 I'm sure some of you saw this coming, I'm going on Hiatus. In fact I kind of have been on a sort of unofficial hiatus recently.

I think I've figured out what has been killing my game motivation, but there is no cure for it but giving myself some time.

As a result I'm hiatusing until about the same time in Nov. I may also be dropping a number of threads and starting fresh when I come back, to help get myself sorted back out and rolling again. I think I can make this work without dropping any more characters, and I will try very hard *not* to, but I can't make promises on it. 

I will be back in game toward the middle/end of November, see you all then.

I have come to the conclusion that I need to stop assigning essays, because then - then I have to GRADE them. All of them. By Thursday. And also create a midterm from scratch. No big, right? Right??

(wrong)

UGH I HATE TO DO THIS but I gotta hiatus for a few weeks.

Between several five-hour classes, CTN Expo around the corner, and some housing issues that just cropped up, I really need to spend a few weeks taking care of RL matters. Prowl will be continuing with the Shadowplay plot; Shockwave will be on autopilot analyzing his Predacon bone and doing other sciency things.

I'll be readily available on Plurk if you want to double check with me on any issues or ideas. Handwaving is fine. 

I expect things will be back to some form of normalcy around October 5th. I'll get back to plot specific logs and things then. 

I work in the accounting department of a rather large company, the parent company for 40-50 other companies of various sizes - I myself handle the APs and some AR and sales reporting for six of them.  And it all goes through one massive accounting program.  Which is about to get one massive upgrade within the next month.

Found out in a meeting today that, before the upgrade goes live, there's a massive amount of testing of all areas of the various modules (one module per company) to make sure there won't be any hiccups or errors in our data before the upgrade goes live.  The testing will be after regular work hours so we can concentrate on things without interruption or risking entering things into the wrong version of the program.  All in all, I'm looking at 10-hour days starting on Monday for the next two weeks, possibly three.  Which pretty much kills the rest of the month.

Also...I have a confession to make.  The past few days, I've taken advantage of my downtime after work to finally check out an anime I've been kinda interested in for a while now, thanks to characters in this game.  Aaaaand I now have a fun, new obsession as Brave Police J-Decker plot bunnies take over what brain I have left over from work.  O.O

SO . . . extending my hiatus while I beat plot bunnies into submission deal with longer work days.  I should be back around the 1st, hopefully sooner.  Due to the age of all existing activity, unless someone specifically tells me there's a thread you'd like to continue (which I'll be more than happy to do!), I'm going to go ahead and let standing tags go and just start "fresh" when I get back in later.  Sorry, guys...but I get to feeling behind kinda quickly as it is with my usual level of activity.  9,9

Mods, I know AC is coming up - um, tomorrow?  I'll be sure to hit that when it does.  Pretty sure TC'll pass.  We'll see how he does for the next go-round, though.  orz 

Affects Thundercracker (notyourblueangel).

Last week was busy, though I managed to kinda keep up with tags.  Weekend was slightly less busy but with longer days.  This week's even busier, with a side of crazy.  Nothing bad at all, just the way things have fallen into place.  But still . . . busy workdays = brainless evenings.  Which means brain goes NOPING away when it comes to trying to tag, among other things.

So . . . I'm not even going to fight it.  Gonna call a hiatus at least until - and possibly through - the weekend.

Affects Thundercracker (notyourblueangel). I doubt anyone will really need him for anything, but if you decide you do, or you just wanna chat or ask a question, I'm still around and easily reachable by email or PM.  I'm just not going to be attempting anything of the creative persuasion.

Peace, peeps!  <3

I'm moving across state at the end of this month to be closer to my parents as they grow more elderly and in need of care. My mother is a diabetic and fourth year stroke survivor and my father, her current caregiver, is on the slow downside towards Alzheimer's. I've also been suffering some RP burnout that's made it hard to be active of late.

Further, because I've been dealing with a lot of helplessness and failure in RL on different fronts this year, it makes the game's current tone and similar themes hard for me to deal with. Of course people can play what they want and I do not begrudge them their drama if they want it, but if the current trend continues I don't think it's the right place for me and my muse. There's nothing he can do in any of this and it's gone way beyond the level of what's fun drama for me.

I'll be on extended hiatus for at least month and will reevaluate come mid September once the move is done.