WORLD OF RAWR

Happy New Year. January is almost over and I thought I'd hit y'all up with a checkin. I hope everyone is getting whatever matches they can in safety and having the best of times. I'm living through you vicariously in GA...

...but only for a little while longer because I'm moving this summer. ✨

It's been a long time coming, but we're finally in motion. I've looked at a few places and as I'm growing and all of that, the things I want from the place I live and the community around me are changing, so we're gonna change locations. I'm looking forward to it and since I'll likely be living alone that will make it easier to host visitors 🎉

Huh, I might need to invest in mats this year 🤔

It's going to be a fun summer, I think. I'll try to make a few rounds before I move if I can. If I remember, I'll try to take some pictures and video; I think I'm due an update or few. ☺

Oh, I'll likely be editing some profile stuff to make the read a bit shorter, but also: I still expect y'all to read it. 😅

This week has been very interesting in having people – local people – reach out for matches in a direct manner. Direct as in “Hey, I wanna roll. Here’s a date and a time. Does this work? Cool, see you then.”

When I tell you that, given history, this was quite a shock…

To be sure, a pleasant one. Now I have weekend grapple plans and I’m looking forward to it. More of this, please. 🙏🏾

P.S.: While I’m here, fellas: I’m not the first person to say this but given this Pandemic! At The Disco we are having, if you ask me for a match and you’re in a different country or continent, I appreciate you and it’s unlikely I’ll see you before 2023 unless you video call me over WhatsApp at this point.

If you live here in the US on the other hand… these road-trips are about to be LIT.

So it's 1:06AM Eastern US and there's a meteor shower happening on Animal Crossing, so I'm wishing on stars and thinking about wrestling videos.

Over the course of time I've been home, I've found a couple where I'm like "I'd like these..." but as with most things, there's the struggle about cost vs value. Cost being "this thing is x amount of money" and value being "how many times am I going to watch and enjoy this in its entirety". Most of this you have discern from a 1-minute (or thereabout) trailer whether or not you'll enjoy the other 15-30 minutes of video content. It's taken a few years to finally see enough things to go, "Huh, this would be good. I should actually buy this.

Right after that is the issue of membership models. On the one hand, recurring revenue is great. The reasons this is a thing are obvious, but on my end of it is that consideration of value again – am I going to watch enough video (how many videos is that even) to make it worth paying that membership fee or would I be better served buying the few things I know I'll like the majority of watching?

The closest I've seen to a model that works for me is the type on BWN where they give you a week-long pass to watch whatever you want to. It gives me enough time to peruse and go "I really like a lot of matches here, let me just go ahead and be a full-fledged member" or "I like some of these matches, but only a few. Let me just get a new pass when I'm in the mood to watch them or just buy those outright and not worry otherwise." That was super nice and I think it's good for everyone all around. Especially people like me who will think about a thing for a long while before they buy it otherwise.

That's all for today. I wished on so many stars during the meteor shower in this game that I hit a maximum achievement.

I had this one on my list of to-dos for a while, so here we are with a late night musing.

Summer has gone well, I think. I did a bit of traveling as it rounded off and got to finally have that one match with RNC23 that was far too long in the making while on my way to Indianapolis. I enjoy long distance driving; it's scenic, quiet, and gives you a lot of time to think. One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how some things that I thought I wasn't or wouldn't be into are less about preferences and more about trust.

I watched a lot of wrestling videos and whatnot during my downtime and one of the things that came up was, "Oh, looking at it, [move/tactic] is kind of hot. Huh..." It was with all sorts of things, but for the sake of example, let's use something like CBT or high impact moves in pro or whatnot. So much of this when people have described it to me or asked was like, "Nah, I don't know if I'm into it" only to then see or experience it in the moment and think, "This isn't bad. This is actually kinda nice. I should do this more."

You'd think things like trust or even general emotions wouldn't mean as much as they do, but they do.

I'm also thinking that, as long as it proves worthwhile, I might do some more of these long distance drives, visit some people, and roll a bit. It's gonna take a lot of planning, but it would be worth it. Especially since I work remote.

Alright, bed now. 😴

I have an evening free for some rolls if anyone wants to read the ol’ profile and hit me up as I’m in Atlanta this evening and tomorrow.

I would have just posted a match request, but they don’t let you post same-day requests so you get this entry instead.

May the odds be in our favor.

I really did write a whole entry, but then closed the tab before I posted, so we're gonna try this again.

Hi, I write entries and I save them most of the time excepting today. Things haven't changed much since our last entry in terms of wrestling meetups and that's OK. I'm still ready to roll (and I might get to soon), but getting to that place just takes a lot. Mostly things like:

• Are you masking up and minimizing your going out?
• Are you behaving like there's a panopticon* happening?
• What kind of precautions are you taking during this promenade*?

On the other hand, I have more than enough time to play games, write stories, and talk about various issues and interests I have. In fact, I might get to be involved with something special that might end up floating around here soon. I've also had a lot of time to think about the kind of things I want to do and surprisingly, wrestling is still in the top 5 of those things. Come 2022 when I feel like flying is feasible, I'm pretty sure I'm coming straight to Europe to see some of you.

Most of the people I want to meet up with have been great about safety and I look forward to battle and a bit of beer and thinking about that keeps my spirits up. Until that time, I'll enjoy reading up on all of you doing your various things and try to stay out of trouble.

I've also finally sorted out a number of things I'm actually giving to people when I wrestle them. Most are green and I'm okay with that; the things I don't want as much will have better homes with people who do want those things. There's a lot of brief-styled things in here and one pair of socks. I would rather have red or black or yellow.

Mostly because I'm not wearing the gear regularly enough to warrant keeping it, ya know; if you're gonna have gear, it should be things you look forward to wearing.

o/

Note about the *s: We like using substitute alliterations for pandemic in these parts.