A Week in Writing #539 - Growing Pains

 Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing.

So, growing pains is the wrong expression, but moving into a new computer has its own issues. Mostly, it's how things work and where things are stored or aren't. We found out on Friday, for example, that some files on my old computer hadn't made it to the new one. That's why, for example, this week's audio podcast is missing the music we usually use. I remedied that today, I hope.

I've also lost some applications that I had been using, like Adobe Elements. I had managed to have a standalone version of the software, which I used for sizing pages, making peeks-of-the-weeks and thumbnails for the audio podcast. I at least knew what I was doing. Now I'm trying to find one that works similarly, but so far it's hit and miss. It took three of us to get the podcast thumbnail done for Friday.

I'm not sure if it's the new computer, but the camera kept glitching throughout the podcast. Not sure why, but it was sort of annoying. Our guest this week was Tony Fleecs, the creator behind Stray Dogs and Feral. It's available now on our Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/powerssquared/videos, but only for the next few days. It's also available in audio form. You can listen to it on our website or find the other platforms it's on at https://powerssquaredcomicbook.com/oaps. Or, you can wait and watch it on our YouTube channel (@powerssquared) when it goes up on Wednesday at 2:30 pm PST. The direct link is https://youtu.be/yc3rBrNrxCU.

There was a lot of activity this week on Trophy Unlocked, including two of my reviews. Today saw Beatles '64 go up, my thoughts on the recent documentary on Disney+. The Saturday Morning Review was also mine, this time for 3 Godfathers (1948); this is a Three Godfather's Christmas on the blog. The Wednesday Game Day review was Paul's for Sonic Adventure played on the Dreamcast.

The holidays have already had a bit of an effect on my writing. This Christmas we have three Advent calendars, the usual chocolate a day, but we've added in one that's a Harry Potter puzzle every day and the other is EXIT: The Game - Advent Calendar - The Missing Hollywood Star, the latter we play as a family. It's fun, but depending on how late we eat and how hard the Exit clues are, it can get kind of late to really start much.

That said, I did manage to get through two reviews this week and keep up with my Skylar rewrites. But I find myself asleep sometimes at the keyboard.

No new review from me this week, as we made our annual Saturday night shopping trek to the mall. We actually are pretty far along with Christmas shopping and actually didn't buy anything, but we like to go once a year at this time to see what's what.

Well, that about does it for me. Keep writing and I'll see you back here next week.