Those of you who follow the site closely have noticed that it’s been dead for a little over a month now. What happened?
Well, basically, I was horribly ill for more than a month and there were some pretty serious health problems in my immediate family, too. The final assessment is that I was sick for 36 days straight, culminating in an “immune system collapse” that resulted in 9 days of pneumonia. Although I had a couple of semi-functional days in the middle of things, I basically lost the entire month of December plus a little extra.
A different perspective, and one that may shed some light on just how ludicrously behind on things I am, is that I usually clock 140-160 hours of work each month (including projects here at the Alexandrian). In the month of December, I logged 18 hours.
I’m generally not a big fan of wringing my hands in public about this sort of thing, but one of the things that fell through the cracks as my regular schedule disintegrated was the monthly Hangout for Patreon patrons. And I wanted to take a moment to publicly apologize to them for that. I’m currently brainstorming a way to make that up to members of the Hangout Club, and I’ll let people know more about that as soon as I’ve come up with something suitably awesome.
When can you expect more regular content here at the Alexandrian? Well, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to have a slate of new material up before the end of January. However, I’m still very, very far behind on… well, everything. And I’m not going to just crank out some random crap for the sake of posting it. So, basically, there’ll be new stuff here at the Alexandrian as soon as I can produce the kind of thoughtful, high quality material y’all have come to expect from the site.
Thanks for your patience! And I hope you’re all doing much better than I have been!
Take care of yourself, Justin. We’ll be here when you’ll be ready!
Long time lurker, first time poster, just chiming in to say that I’m sorry to hear you’ve been having a rough time, Justin. I love reading your work, and having noticed how quiet it had become around here, I was beginning to fear something had gone seriously wrong.
It sounds as if things are heading in the right direction, though?
Anyway, good luck with your recovery – and looking forward to seeing some more great stuff from the Alexandrian whenever that becomes possible.
Thanks for the update. I’m glad you’re feeling better. Looking forward to the new content; it’s worth waiting for. Keep up the great work.
Take a breather and recover man. You didn’t fall behind, sickness is not “made up for” by overwork afterwards, you’ll often only become sick again that way.
Best of luck and good health
And I thought I was sick right now. Glad you’re back in action, don’t miss out on any rest you don’t have to on our account.
Hopefully you are recovering for good and catching up on all your open issues with ease!
Glad to hear you’re feeling better and best wishes to you in 2016!
Just want to echo what Michael said. Take it easy, don’t take too much on at once in a vain attempt to catch up with the month you were sick for or you’ll just end right back up where you started.
Hope you feel better and take care of yourself.
Just wanted to show my support, say sorry for your troubles, and tell you I’m looking forward to seeing regular posts on the Alexandrian someday soon
Hope you start feeling better soon, to echo what others have said – feel free to give yourself as much time as you need.
Hope the rest of 2016 is productive and enjoyable for you.
Lurker here chiming in to say get well soon. We all love your stuff, but we’d prefer you take it easy until your health improves.
Hope you feel better very soon.
Best wishes for a continued recovery for you and your family!
Do you what you gotta do. We’ll be here when you get back.
Glad to hear you’re getting better. Don’t kill yourself for our sakes, but I look forward to new content.
That said, the advantage of being a new reader is that if I wanted my Alexandrian fix, I just archive binged. I’m back to about Sept 2013 at this point. I will say, your Patreon helped this site immensely – going backwards, the reduced density of the fun meaty design articles, and increase in old RPGNet reviews and the like, around the time you brought it in is clear.
I live in Australia. Nothing gets done for the entire month of December. So I didn’t particularly notice anything unusual. 😀
Get well, man!
Hey Justin,
Glad to hear you’re on the mend! When there was no update for so long, I was beginning to get worried about you.
Take it easy, take care of yourself!
Loving the site! Take your time to get well! Best wishes for you & your close ones!
And if you’re not feeling up to cranking out voluminous stuff, start off with tidbits!
Take care of yourself! The high-quality of your work is much more important than the quantity. Further, to remain sustainable, you’ve got to take care of yourself. So do that.
Hello,
Just found your site the other day.
Very interesting.
Looking just now at your book reviews, I did not see any thing from Jack Vance.
I would be interested in your thoughts.
Allan