I ordered my first book for the summer and I decided to go with non-fiction. My rationale behind this is choosing something easy and fun to start before adding in more complex fiction. I chose a book I always wanted to read and I’m pretty sure I read an excerpt from back in the day. The book is Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by Dave Kushner.

Doom by id Software was the first game that really got me into PC Gaming. I never read much about the development of Doom as I got to read about Quake; id’s polygonal first person shooter which is the reason I clock thousands of hours in Call of Duty today. I love reading these old gaming memoirs and I’m sure I’ll crush through this book quick.

I think the game plan is to alternate non-fiction and fiction books so while reading Masters of Doom–I’ll have some time to think of a fiction book I’d like to read next. I don’t think I would choose a classic and try something more contemporary as a change.

I’m trying to remember how to write. I know I just have to keep up doing it to get the stream of conscious flow back. It’s mainly the loss of long form writing as there is a pressure to write something short and catchy cause no one has an attention span left. I know I don’t. I try to think about long text stuff I read that isn’t a short tweet or meme and I guess it’s a Wikipedia entry. That’s disgraceful.

But maybe that’s just it. To write long form, you need to consume long form. I can’t remember the last book I read front to back. I’m sure everyone went through the phase of trying to read a book off a Kindle or iPad–thinking it was a good idea and then quickly falling off. I find I value digital media less than physical media which could be the old man in me. Then again whatever works works so maybe I should use Amazon to buy a book instead of cheap gym shorts.

Fiction or non-fiction? That is the question. I like reading non-fiction but I would want to write fiction. What’s that all about? I guess the only fiction I want to read are the classics and that would be a good start. I can read pretty fast off a screen so I wonder how long it would take me to crush a book.

Ok. That’s what I’m going to do. Make a list of books I want to read this summer and read them. Pretty lame but it’s probably slightly healthier than playing video games all summer. Let’s just start with 1 book and it can be fiction or non-fiction–I just need to read it. Which book?

I’ll think about it for the rest of the evening and hopefully tomorrow I can start reading.

Some people it Night Mode. I call it Dark Mode and I use it on all my devices because I’m sensitive to light. I now use an OLED monitor and I heard that too much bright static images can cause burn-in so why not figure out how to implement Dark Mode to this blog to inspire posting again.

The next thing I need to do is update my headshot because I haven’t rocked a beard for some time and I don’t plan on returning to the look anytime soon. This headshot that I use on everything for work I had professionally done. I might attempt to take my own headshot this time.

Anyways, if anyone is reading this please leave a comment and feel free to offer suggestions on what you would like to see here.

Take care.