I just feel a bit average, kind of like I’m going through the motions. I have a great life, a loving partner and a good job for my age, but I’m struggling to find happiness in it. It just feels like things are slightly off. Even things that should disappoint me, like last week when …
My wife still has PTSD symptoms from my daughter’s death almost twenty years ago. Losing our daughter was the worst thing that has ever and will ever happen to us, and it’s safe to say we will never recover. Yes the waves of grief are fewer and far between now, but they still come. I’m …
Okay! Woooo! Today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for. Today is the day I embark on my drive around Australia (including getting the ferry to Tasmania and driving around Tassie too). Six months of preparation have led to this moment, and I’m filled with excitement. I don’t have one ounce of nerves in my …
I guess it’s true that not many people in Over-Botch are unemployed. It’s a career simulator, and you actually have to start off with a low-level internship at the very least when you make an account. You can get fired, though, after which you get a LOT of prompts telling you that you need to …
Sometimes I feel like the people in the government just have a good laugh at us small folk. All their laws and legislation are so complicated, with so many irrelevant articles and sub-rules and what not added on. Just yesterday they passed a bill that requires all people who own a green Ford that has …
These last few centuries have been tough for the crew, I have to admit. Finding the key to immortality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The 20th century was the hardest of them all, with the invention of commercial aircraft. And we thought the 19th-century metal ship renaissance was difficult to adjust to! Now …
There’s nothing like driving on a freeway at night, particularly when you’ve just spent hours ploughing through the countryside. If you hit the far edges of the city at around 10pm, you’ve nailed it. You’ve missed peak hour by a long shot, and there aren’t too many other drivers cramping your style – just the …
