Rollicking 2013 Roundup: My Life as a Grimdark Video Game

This was a hell of a long year for me; much of it felt like grinding through some hellish video game where every time you leveled up on one skill – say, your ability with a mace – you somehow actually *lost* stats on another skill, like your skill with an ax.

And then you were wildly swinging with the wrong weapon, making tiny steps forward while trailing great gobs of blood behind you.

Framing my life this way feels strangely apropos right now at the end of a long year, though it all liklihood...