In today’s spoiler-free post, let’s talk about the entirety of the first season of The Legend of Vox Machina as a complete whole: the good and the bad. If you’ve seen my prior reviews, you know how I felt about each episode in this first season, but how do I feel about the entire thing now that it’s over?

Today I want to talk about my own experience with getting a vasectomy, start to finish, in the hopes that it will encourage others to just get out there and get this thing done. I’ll be going over my personal reasons, how I convinced the doctor to do it, what the procedure was like, and how recovery went!

Dark content has been prevalent in stories of all kinds for a long time. However, it hasn’t always been as pervasive or in-your-face as it seems to be today. It seems like we can’t turn on a show, go see a movie, play a game, or open a book without experiencing content that’s aggressively dark or grim hitting our eyes at some point during the story. This is something I’ve seen ramping up lately, particularly with the success of shows like Game of Thrones. The question I want to ask today is… do stories need dark or controversial content? Are violence, gore, sex, drugs, trauma, and other topics that have been considered taboo in the past necessary for stories? Do they improve the stories overall, or would the stories be better if this content were cut?

They really did save the best for last! Impressed doesn’t even begin to cover it, so I’ll really just be spending much of this review praising what I loved about each of these three episodes. This review, like all of my other batch reviews, is completely spoiler-free, so you don’t have to worry about any of that if you haven’t watched the last three episodes, yet. I’m pretty excited to start talking about these episodes, so let’s go ahead and dive into it.

Over the last three weeks, I gave you a full deep dive into my IT career history. I talked about my first job, my current job, and everything in between! I was as honest and thorough as I could be (probably more honest and thorough than I should have been), but now I’m going to look a little bit deeper and provide you with a few lessons that I’ve learned from navigating my IT career and the professional space. I figure that if I’ve devoted this much time to a career, I might as well try my best to help others who are looking into the same thing.

Today, I want to talk specifically about reading books and how I manage to read as much as I do. I used to read a lot and have been getting back into the swing of it, which I’ve found to be a bit easier than I originally thought. In the first month of 2022, I read about 500,000 words, or a little over 100,000 words a week. I used to read even more than that! So, in today’s post, I’m going to talk about what works for me in this regard. Hopefully, you’ll be able to pull something from one or all of these tips!