2022 Report Card

  It has been a while since we published in this but methinks I will restart it, covid disrupted the best laid plans

Tom

1. Finish Army of Fire (Alpha) B+ -Got to 109000 out of likely 117000, and this in spite of some major writers block

2. Research and Start Eternally East (Outline complete)-B+ -Major change of direction (for the better) outline finies and around 40 pages of a draft that will never be done

3. Complete the script and production plan for Sins of Silicon Valley-A- -Production Plan is pretty light but the script is done despite major blocks and I do have a plan I hope to improve on

4. Get to 250lbs and stay that way until the end of the year.-D -Gained weight but did exercise 2-3 times a week

5. Sketch 2-3 minor projects-D -Started out well but got psychological block midway though due to very stupid assignment, finished part of one project

Overall: B- Not the best year, not the worst

Julia

1. Keep food journal -D -Started but meh

2. Research and get outline done for own story-F

3. Do Crow position in Yoga-B -Worked on and in progress

4. Do Wheelbarrow position in Yoga- B

5. Practice piano- C -Did while had access to ine

Over Grade: C+ -May not have accomplished specific goals but has accomplished a lot in terms of professional growth and took care of myself and stress levels much better than before

Couple

1. Go to Europe -A+ -Trip to Paris w Wayne and Helen and their daughter was fabulous and memorable

2. Go to New Orleans- A -We FINALLY got to see the jazz festival, great food and great memories

3. Get involved in the local Fet/K community. -B -Progress was made but we both tabled it for a while and will pick up next year

4. Keep working on Fruitloop  -B -Still going strong not as strong as it could have been

5. Discover Interesting passionate literature -B- -Julia gets and a+ I get a C+ here

6. Investigate rp-F - We did not do this together at all

Overall: Tom rates: B+ Julia rates: B+ So B+ We had challenges but overcame them

Other noteworthy items:

Did a major move including Uhaul, finding a place via airbnb across a thousand miles and brought an aminal in a great town we both love

Julia got a FANTASTIC job at UMass

Created a chapbook of epic poems and weird stories

Explored some of Massachusets and went to Salem on a great trip

Julia got to go to an epic Anne Rice Vampire ball

Tom got Pericuolo Narr out of Orlando (Roleplaying game)

Attended a family reunion in Utah w the Ricks clan and we made an epic and hilarious music video w my niece 

Goals Are My Religion

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When I left the LDS Celestial Pyramid Scheme

October 26, 2007 at 8am

(a date I celebrate every year)

I thought I had left Religion behind

I was and am still very Spiritual

But that path as an animist

Is complex and sundry

But in hindsight

I did retain a religion

Even if it isnt spiritual

But there are rituals

And self covenants

Every year I make goals

But unlike most

By and large I kept them

Year by Year

Though 2020 was rough

I didnt even set them in 2021

And I got out of the habit

But in 2022 

I found that ole time religion

And 2023 will be even better.

https://tinyurl.com/3c6mxeyr

Seven Lives For Living

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Thirty was when my life started

Thirty was the age

Like Logan's Run 

That the Satanic Verses

That is/was LDS policy

Moved a man from the Singles Congregation

To the General Population

If you dont marry in LDS theology

You dont go to the highest level

Of the Celestial Pyramid Scheme

And while five years before I got out

I realized then and there

Defining my life

By who I married (if anyone)

Or how I worked

In one meaningless technical writing contract

After another

Was a recipe for regret and failure

So while I still dated 

And still worked

I came up with something more than a bucket list

And less than a lifetime commitment

Seven lives I could live

With all the time I had left

The first was roleplaying games

I made and sold seven supplements

Peaking in the Fate of Inglemia

The things I have done amd seen

I was and am a player of games

And my Pinnacle

Was gaining the respect of my peers 

The Second Life was Writing

Seven Novels would I write

Seven now almost done

Nine thousand words away

The final novel in Inglemia itself

A lifetime worth for certain sure

Emmit is a side bet

A lifetime ironically greater

Than Rhombus himself

And here I sought to prove my worth

Also by the respect of my peers

Until SFWA proved it had no worth in my eyes

By hiring two sociopaths to judge my work

Unjustly

And no one one is my peer but me

As it should be

As it should be

In this life I retire like Stephen King

(Not that I am that good mind)

But rather my retirement

Is 'retirement'

But I still write five to 12 more books

At my own pace

Just because I can

The third life is movies and producing

I have done three worthy ones

Next year after a ten year hiatus

After healing from my Ex

I am doing the documentary 

The Sins of Silicon Valley

And will then do three more

Maybe seven plays as well

Who knows what Tom Drake will do

The fourth live is Project Management

A feather in my cap at the start

By completing my masters in the same

After being drummed out

Of (for me) a nigh impossible masters 

In Molecular Biology

Three projects have I done

Worthy of a Master Accomplishment

Mentoring, Biographers  (donish) and Inspiring

I do not know if four more await

Of this life

I am most unsure

For I will know a great work

When I see it

I am two thirds of the way there

Maybe more happen

Maybe they dont

The fifth life is my spiritual path

Seven roles in time

My path is my own

My path is my own

Five of Seven roles fulfilled

Two to go in time

Two to go in time

The Sixth is Servant Leadership

I am just getting started

A quest for each shard

We will see what we will see

The seventh is undefined

And may never be lived

For a man should always aspire to more

One that they can do before their last breat

Never settling always moving

We will see what we will see

We will see what we will see

2022 Goals

 It has been a while since we published in this but methinks I will restart it, covid disrupted the best laid plans

Tom

1. Finish Army of Fire (Alpha)

2. Research and Start Eternally East (Outline complete)

3. Complete the script and production plan for Sins of Silicon Valley

4. Get to 250lbs and stay that way until the end of the year.

5. Sketch 2-3 minor projects

Julia

1. Keep food journal

2. Research and get outline done for own story

3. Do Crow position in Yoga

4. Do Wheelbarrow position in Yoga

5. Practice piano

Couple

1. Go to Europe 

2. Go to New Orleans

3. Get involved in the local Fet/K community.

4. Keep working on Fruitloop 

5. Discover Interesting passionate literature

6. Investigate rp