The Eternal Jutari Empire

While it springs eternal and is good to have, it doesn’t always have much foundation supporting it.  The hope that I’d be more consistent updating this blog being a good example of that.

Really I have no one to blame but myself at this juncture.  Honestly, particularly the last month or two … I just don’t know, something about my mental setup has led to some serious self sabotage.  I just can’t seem to focus the way I need to be productive and its killing me both in work and play productivity.  I’m trying to fight it but damn if the drives fueling it aren’t strong.  I just wish I knew why I was being like this…

Once again I return after being away for a pretty good stretch. Apologies to my few readers, at least its an easy blog to keep up with eh? ;p

Hmm…well a lot has happened since my last post, that’s for sure, some of which I will scape goat as reasoning for the draught of updates.

First we have work. SalesForce has continued to be a thorn in my side but there is light at the end of the tunnel. We’ve created and are on track for an end of month deadline for converting our current clients. After that its just a matter of ironing out some of our processes and starting to learn more about the platform and improving our configuration.

Second was turmoil in the legion. In short our top level people cliqued up, jumped ship suddenly, dragging others with them, and made their own legion. This, particularly taking into account chain reaction leaves in the days after, hit the legion pretty hard and was particularly a punch to the gut for me.

I take the idea of legion as a family/large friend group to heart so all those people just leaving all of the sudden and with no real reason stated(no reason with any more meaning than “going in different directions”). Was, for me as legion leader, like a bunch of good friends suddenly turning their backs and rejecting me. It really hurt deep, still kind of does, a bit of RP actually caused me to have a short lived breakdown due to similarities in the situation.

So it took me some time to really get over that. Thankfully a number of those who stuck with the legion stepped up as vocal supporters and friends, it was thanks to them more than anything that I was able to pull back up out of the depression and march forward.

Ah…but so ya anyway. The legion, and for the most part I, are back on our feet and things are generally looking up accross the board in life so hopefully you can look forward to more frequent posts. I have a backlog of topic ideas from before the hiatus and new ones streaming in so that won’t be a problem at least here’s to hope’n. *crossed fingers*

In the short time since my last post the disciples have kicked it up a notch and soared from rank 38 to 31 and 30 is well within reach! Probably my shortest post yet but so exciting!

As of this posting I am proud to say that DoS is ranked 38th on the Lumiel PvP ladder and that we have the initiates in the pipe put us at 90 members, the max currently allowed in Aion, and though we have let some respectful non-rpers in because they are great and fun people the rpers outweigh them by far so we have a solid presence in the RP community, even though I manage to remain largely reclusive.

Well thats it, just wanted to get a post in and I was really excited about those two things so a status update seemed appropriate.

So I’ve sadly made a lier of myself. Work has just been endless crazy since the move. Lots of new clients and changes to implament, figuring out where we are going with salesforce, and my normal duties makes for a very busy day.

And for my evenings I’ve done an excelent job of draining all my time into hulu and my Aion RP legion, Disciples of Shadow, which is proving to be a great success. We are currently ranked 51 for Lumiel server and rising fast.

I don’t know maybe I should try focusing more on smaller or more free form posts like this rather than article style ones on set topics.

… I hope.  Sorry I’ve been away empty abyss of the internet!  The company I work for has semi merged with another one (We are keeping our separate corporate identities and systems but sharing costs and some resources.) and we moved locations end of last week, 1/28.  Everyone pitched in for much of the physical move but the technical stuff and servers were left entirely to me.

It was a rough couple days that pretty much burned me out to where I didn’t do anything over the weekend and I mean anything, I spent the whole time eating or laying in bed sleeping and watching hulu.  This week hasn’t been that much better.

No super late nights, though I’ve stayed after hours more than my share, and all the important systems are up and running but as expected there are the odd hiccups to be cleared out and nonessential systems and tasks to be taken care of.  Our mail room is kind of jury rigged into working order with wires and cables running around in disarray and equipment hooked in wherever convenient rather than in their final positions.

Nonetheless as a result I just haven’t felt like I had the spare time and have slacked on my blog writing in favor of more pure pursuits of enjoyment like Aion and Star Trek Online.  Don’t worry though, I have numerous subject drafts I’ve been working on waiting to be made into proper posts for publishing.  I haven’t run out of things to talk about yet 😉

So given my stated purpose I’m sure the domain/blog name seems pretty random and so some may be wondering whats going on there.  The detailed explanation could be a bit involved so I’ll give you the cliff notes for now.  Essentially I have a persistent original world scifi concept that I write stories for when I’m feeling creative, currently nothing posted anywhere so don’t bother looking, if I ever do decide to put anything about it in the public eye it will be here.  I admit in its current form its pretty self indulgent so you probably won’t see much till I tone things down a bit so that there can be some conflict to make things interesting.

Nonetheless central to the world is an empire spanning a vast array of star systems.  Technically it is the Jutari Empire and citizens identify themselves as being Jutari but otherwise because of its size and standing many, both inside as well as outside the empire, have taken to appending “Eternal” to the title when being formal and unless other empires are actively being discussed many will go so far as to simply refer to it as “The Empire”.

So the empire and such are very central to me creatively and that’s what is unique to me as a person, different from the endless other geeky blogs out there, so that’s what I decided to name the site/blog after.  Anything else would have been in some way generic, calling on the same old themes.  Its not SEO friendly I know, but you know what?  I’ll live ;p

And happy holidays to those of differing beliefs.

Super touching video, wanted to embed but it keeps trying to auto-play.  >Gift of Ages<

Semi-Random: I’m Methodist, that will probably come up at some point if I feel like rambling about philosophy or some such at some point, I don’t imagine I’ll draw attention to it specifically but that will be where I’m coming from just so you know going in.  Honestly I just don’t care for the fighting, I choose to believe what I believe and others choose to believe what they do, as long as I’m not stepping on your to toes and you aren’t stepping on mine its all good.  Of course some of the gray comes in people’s differing concept of what constitutes stepping on said toes.

In my philosophical ramblings, should they come to pass, by working from my personal world view I will inherently be seen in a way to be passing judgment on all that is counter too it, but to this situation I say two things. 1) My blog, my opinion, if it doesn’t jive with you sorry to hear that I wish you luck finding what you’re looking for in the blogosphere. 2) For my part I really do give this the weight of my OPINION, which is to say it is strong, I likely will not be wavered from it, and I think it is correct BUT I accept the possibility that it is ultimately wrong and so do not look down on those who do not share it simply because their opinion differs.  If your opinion differs and you flame me or try to start a fight or something then I WILL probably look down on you for that.

I know this all may sound vaguely contradictory, we live in high strung and opinionated times where this kind of middle grounding can be rare,  but it is honestly how I feel about it.

I hear you asking.  In this age of seemingly endless exhibitionism what are MY reasons for creating a blog?  Well I’m doing it for a few reasons.

I admit part of it is just the classic shouting out in the dark because its better than the silence.  It feels good sometimes to express yourself, especially when you don’t often otherwise get the opportunity.  Self centered as blogs and social media in general tend to be I happen to fully realize that not many people will care much about what I have to say because that’s how it tends to play out in real life.  In spite of my best efforts, real life events have resulted in a general perception that what I have to say just isn’t that interesting to most people, which has led to some social difficulties.  Its hard to get and particularly KEEP a conversation going  when you are convinced before hand that the other person won’t be interested in your side of the conversation.  With a blog, however, I’m shouting out to everyone, casting the net wide as they say.  So with luck maybe I’ll find a few oddballs actually interested and if not, again it still feels good to express yourself.  Outside of this quest to simply be heard?

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Hello all, welcome to the blog! So this is my personal blog which will be covering a variety of topics of interest to me, for the most part it will be a geek blog at its heart.

Not only is this my first post but it is also a test of posting via my new Motorola Cliq android phone! As such I’ll be cutting this post short and will continue later via laptop.