Bringing Up to Speed

First of all, I want to say that it feels good to actually post something a week after I posted last instead of the better part of a year like before.

Second of all, hi! I've been thinking over the past couple of days about what I should post next, and a thought occurred to me. There's been some new faces following me since I last checked, and I am intent on showing them the proper tour. I will relate the story behind my other blog haunts I'm getting back into checking again, and hope that they give you some more fun places to go. I won't reveal every one just yet, but I will reveal...

Words of Value Leads to the blog I'm most interested in getting off the ground, though it is in need of some severe tune-ups. This is the blog reserved for my current writing aspiration, a novel idea that hit me about a year ago that I've for one reason or another never got to finish. I am hard at work on cranking it out now, and with some tweaks, like getting rid of that rather unfitting top image, this blog, and this book, will be off the ground. I won't reveal any more about what it's about, you'll have to see for yourself on the blog. ;-)

My DeviantArt page is my most frequent Internet haunt. Despite the name, its actually capable of being a nice place with the proper content filters in place. The My DeviantArt Tab will take you there. I do a bit of writing for fun on there, mostly in the science fiction realm so go prepared.

I'll reveal more as the days go by. Pay some visits, it'll be worth it I swear.

Not The Most Triumphant Return Ever, But...

Hello Blogger World, miss me? Thought not.

How could any of you miss me when I've not spent any time on here, not giving anyone a chance to get to know me? Its a terrible thing I know, but I assure you it will not last.

For you see, I am endeavoring to do better with my time and one thing I am getting good at is balancing my life online. Finding a good means to use the internet when you live somewhere without it is not easy, but a means has showed itself, and I am, and I mean AM, returning to the Blogger world. I may not be the most regular of posters, I have other blogs elsewhere, but I am making it a habit, I am using this blog and my other blogs, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Thank you for your time. I pray you will allow me to take more of it in the future. That is all.

A long time coming

Well hello all you bloggers out there. First of all, I want to apologize for the past few months of silence, especially considering I had even said that I wouldn't do that again. But in my defense, the past few months have been quite the ordeal for me. I have left my old abode in Charlotte NC for the small-ish city of Rocky Mount, courtesy of Sunset Avenue Baptist Church, (who I thank for giving Dad the best job he's ever had) being in need of a senior pastor. Though there have been some rough squalls I am in the process of getting things back on track.

For one, thanks to having to aid with the move and other matters, I had to temporarily withdraw from school, major pain there. I am in the process of signing up with another community college so that I can get more non-major related work done.

A second point is being 5 hours away from Sarah, (Her blog is here for those not in the know) and all the angst you would expect from that. I am attempting to arrange a means of bridging that gap, and a lot of other gaps, so that I can be seen  as a man to all eyes, which is as God intended.

On a lighter note, I have started a new writing project with full intent to publish. It's more along the lines of Christian allegory than the sci-fi adventure I was focusing, and thus far it is coming along swimmingly. It's pending title is called The Value, and for those even more curious, I have a blog set up to provide insight into the journey. The Blog Words of Value, ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure.

I believe that covers the state of affairs up to this point. I'll try to get into the habit of posting once a week with whatever should catch my fancy.

Unum

Territory: Americana
Rank: P4
Height: 50 Meters
Length: 120 Meters
Gender: N/A

|Classification: Technorganic Guardian Entity|

|Factions: Defenders, Technorgs|

Abilities:

-Nanomechanical Symbiosis: The nanomachines present in Unum’s body have gradually become a substitute for blood and other fluids. As of this point, he cannot live without them.

-Organic Transformation: Found in no other organism, Unum is able to alter his physical structure to better suit the situation. His typical Centaur pose, a more natural scorpion form, an aquatic form, and a more humanoid aerial form have all been recorded. Additional attachments include heated AI guided laser whips, Grapple lines inside the arms, rockets, and sonic pulsars.

-Mental Singularity: Unum requires human intelligence to better run his complex systems, so for centuries a volunteer program called Singularity has operated, where a willing volunteer has his or her mind digitized into Unum’s data core, offering a fresh consciousness to run things. Often, the newer the mind, the more Unum acts like the person alone.


Description:

Ladies and Gentlemen, a New Moniker for an Old Age is upon us. For we as man, the champions of earth for far shorter a time than we would care to remember, have been forced to bow out to the silent guardians that now stand over our heads.

-Andrew Arden

-Man has never had much need for gods, they bring about great dissent, false senses of pride and expectation, and war. War that claims millions of lives for the seemingly all-consuming force that is worship and difference. And yet despite this, gods still reign above us, most being born of our own hands. Why would man construct something destructive, something that brings not a thing but ruin and dissent.


Because we are small.


Man has forever been exchanging a god for another. Once, nature, the rivers, mountains and sun, was our deity. Then we built dams. Then we concocted dynamite. Then we developed atomic weaponry. We sought to become our own gods, to control our former masters with our hands, our own strength. Then the Starfall occurred, and everything was turned on its head. Man, once king over nature, had found itself amongst a nature that had gotten a second wind, and we were unprepared, and lazy to the new force that broke our doorsteps down to nothing. Man lost hope once again, and what did we have to show for our circumstances, a world where the monster legitimately existed? Man saw no other choice but to bring about a way to counter them, but they were simply too large, too mighty, and too immovable to remove. They were here to stay, so we, as man often has, turned to one of our greatest mythical traits, our trickery.


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Mankind bore many monsters to combat others, with some successes and some failures. And of these the most famous and most successful of these was the grand accident turned opportunity that is Unum. A product of science, sorcery, and sentience, Unum was once naught but a mutated scorpion that was injured and then consumed by a swarm of Arden nanomachines loosed upon the Mohave desert. Merging the arachnid abomination with modern machinery, a beast neither living nor dead, organic or mechanical, was born over centuries of fine tuning and sacrifice. A technorganic life, the first of many to come.



Unum has had a productive, illustrious career as defender of Americana proper from threats, outward and inward, a champion of rights and the defense of them. Some have wondered, though, how can that be when Unum is not explicitly ‘alive.’ The best answer to that comes from one of the most respected quotes in the history of the known world, the first words uttered by Unum after the first use of the singularity.



“I am one, I am to protect all. I will change my mind one day...”


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This is the first entry into Dark Hours character designs I have released since officially starting this effort. This entry is the only one I will do on this blog, the rest will all be exclusive to my deviantart page and my Dark Hours Blog. (found on the sidebar)

Read up, and wait for more, for they shall come.

Even Better News

After working with my Papaw here in the mountains all of the past week, I will be headed home tonight for an interview with a Target tomorrow morning. Pray and wish luck for me, because if this works out and I get a job I will be able to focus on fun things again and not slave every moment of every day working on FINDING work.

Jared out, though I'll be back.

Best News All Year!

Well Readers, here I am to offer a bit of excellent news. Tomorrow, I make my way to my new job in the North Carolina Mountains. I  will be delivering water with my Grandpa (I call him Papaw) for the holiday season, and I am looking forward to not being so dirt poor around the holidays.

I don't know when I'll check in next, but count on good times, and don't forget that getting yourself square with God is most important.

Glimpse into The Nest

Hello Followers and Others who take their time to visit.

I just wanted all those interested that I am weekly giving status reports for my writing projects on one of my new blogs, The Writers Nest. (You can click on the link on my sidebar to get there now. It all got worked out, tested it myself. ;-)

I give progress checks, word counts, and things related to my writing research as I go. Be sure to follow along, ya'll.