Tale of a Game Magus

 I did a pull of tarot cards for the year. One card for each month. If read with the reverse, It's terrible. Probably one of the worst readings I ever had. If reverses are not read, then it's one of the best. For those that don't know, in Tarot, if a card if flipped upside down then, depending on the deck and the reader, the card can be read as the opposite of what it normally means. There is debate among readers if the cards should be read as such or if reverse is just human error. I often ignore the reverse but that puts me into feeling I stretched or changed the true meaning of the reading to fit a more positive narrative that isn't there.  Either way, the first card I pulled was the right side up Eight of Swords. That in itself is a precarious card. The deck I used is Steam Punk themed. In the card, a woman is on her knees, tied and has binding around her eyes. Around her in an arc are eight swords attached to gears. The swords are implied to be ticking or moving ar...

 Happy New Year They say how you spend New Years day is how you spend the rest of the year. If that's so, I will spend all year hung over and spacy; craving burgers.  Even so, I hope to be productive this year. Tarot readings say I will be, so hopefully they're right. I start my next class tomorrow. Color Theory. I honestly have no idea what the class will entail aside from discussing things like complimentary colors, blending and stuff like that. I had to get Adobe Creative software which is terrifying because of the lack of space on my computer and it being another program that refuses to be on anything but my main hard drive. It opens in the background on my computer on start up and slows so much down and takes forever to quit out of with task manager. I'm hoping I could do most of this class from my tablet. At least I have space on that.  Speaking of my computer, it is still steadily dying. I got money from Christmas. I mean, that's all I asked for. Not having a job...