Nick Mudry's Blog: Mudry's Musings

Made enough updates to the /now page that I figure it warrants a quick status update on the blog. Head on over and give it a read here: https://mudry.me/now

Using Linux as my daily desktop OS is fun and all until you accidentally CTRL+C during a very important part of a system update and spend ~2+ hours figuring out how to repair some kernel level thing you absolutely broke. Oops.

Today I learned that my contract is finally coming to an end at my job. After a little over two and a half years, I’ll be unemployed going into the holidays and new year. While I am sad, I am also remaining hopeful and optimistic about the future and opportunities that lay ahead. To a degree, I am also grateful that this wasn’t a surprise; I knew it was coming and have been planning for it for quite some time. For now though, just going to focus on the immediate present and take it one day, one week, and one month at a time until I’m ready to focus on what’s next.

One of the things that truly scratches an itch in my brain is keeping up with activity trackers for the media I consume. Movies, games, TV, you name it and I try to keep a log of it all. I just went through and made some updates to my Backloggd for all my recent game playing. If anyone else is on there and wants to follow along, here’s my page: https://backloggd.com/u/nickmudry/

Another NFL Sunday, but this time the Patriots played and destroyed the Steelers. You love to see it! Plus, at least as of right now my fantasy team is winning and that just feels serendipitous.

Although my blog is coming together, it’s still quite a mess. The past few days have been constant in-the-moment observations of “oh, gotta fix this!” and “how did I miss that?”. Generally, all very scatterbrained.

I think this weekend’s goal needs to be: make a list of everything, prioritize it, and set aside some dedicated time to just jam on it all.

Slowly but surely…

My “Watch Later” list on YouTube grows by 4-8+ hours of videos per day and even when I open YouTube when I do have a moment to watch I end up just watching one of the top 5 or so recommended videos (which luckily usually pull from that Watch Later list). Maybe it’s time for a purge (or maybe a very long binge watch session to clear it out)…

I feel like there just isn’t an episode of Ted Lasso that doesn’t get me teary-eyed if not actually shedding some real tears. This latest season is emotionally beautiful, and every time I watch I just feel whole again; such a therapeutic show.

Diablo IV releases on the Switch 2 today and I am (im)patiently awaiting it to go live on the Nintendo eShop. Apparently 12:30PM ET is the time from what I’ve heard, but that will not stop me from refreshing every 15-20 minutes.

I was unironically super invested in BlizzCon this weekend. For many months I’ve been anticipating Diablo IV coming to the Switch 2, and all signs were pointing to Saturday for them to finally reveal it (which, did happen!), but I ended up staying for many of the other announcements.

I’ll have to write a longer form summary of my thoughts in-full sometime later this week, however the reveals around World of Warcraft: Forever and related modern-day WoW now have me back on Windows updating Battle.net and WoW.

It might finally be time for me to get back into an MMO obsession… uh oh.