February 17th 2026
Digital Journal Entry
Hello world!
Another update that doesn’t really have much substance here. I have been working a lot and trying to save money while spectacularly failing to do so, but at least I am alive and (somewhat) thriving. Life moves on and so do I. Today I have a work meeting which will be fine, and I will share various ideas on what can be done to improve performance. Afterwards it will be another work party, because they very much take care of us. It’s a good way to maintain staff in my opinion, which is to treat them to stuff like parties and incentives. People enjoy working where they work, which in turn makes the company a bigger profit because people aren’t quitting or doing a bad job. That’s the main idea behind it anyway, and I’d say it works.
I’m debating on whether I actually attend said party, purely because I don’t know whether I will have the social battery for it, but I will figure that out later.
I haven’t been doing much writing recently though, which is annoying. I need to get back into the groove of things but I have been getting too silly by going out a lot. Drinking tends to throw me off balance, literally and metaphorically. My current projects feel like they are at a bit of a stand-still, because I just don’t know where to go with them. I think I can force myself to push through and make something mediocre, or let it sit and come back later, which is what I prefer. I should also mention though that some of my favourite work has come after I pushed through with something mediocre, because I can come back and refine things. I might have a big moment in a story, then follow it with a boring section, then follow that with another big moment I enjoy. I just go back and fix that boring section, but ideally I will get so good at writing that the boring section never happens. Surely some of the best writers in the world (not me) have bits of their stories that don’t resonate with them as much as other bits. I wonder if that’s the case, or whether I am just stupidly self conscious, or whether I actually am just bad at writing. Maybe it’s all three.
Thanks for reading.