The Navigators Writes

If someone had asked me how much writing I would be doing in my life, I probably would have said "as little as possible." As I get older though, my average keyboard usage has swung away from the WASD keys and balanced itself across all letters equally. I didn't do especially well in English class, as any readers of my older blog post would have guessed. I do like to think I'm above average in the writing department though, and I have been practicing more!

Beyond this here blog I write so much more. Standards and procedures at work, non-stop emails, help requests, etc. Plus there is my current D&D campaign that I am running plus my planning for the next one. That scratches my artistic writing a bit more, provided you accept that me stealing fantasy stuff from every fantasy or sci-fi universe I know and mashing them together as artistic writing.

A Minotaur with a shotgun?! WOOAAAHH!! Also, I think I just came up with a spinoff of Hobo with a Shotgun.

I've looked back at my marks from high school and to a lesser extent, college, and they really don't give a good description of my knowledge. I do math and writing for a living and those were my worst two classes in both. I'm not going to say I'm the best at either, but I think any of my teachers from those class would have to agree that I do a good job at what I need to do.

You always here people say "I'll never use this in real life!" and yeah, while I haven't had to solve for x or tell anyone how a book makes me feel since school, I still think I use all that learning in my day to day. Solving for x makes me more comfortable with the rest of the numbers. Writing a book report makes me learn to use words in ways I hadn't before.

There isn't a day that goes by where I don't have to figure out a dimension on a drawing that doesn't give me it or figure out a way to explain how something works. I'm not the best at explainorizing so I usually have to spend more time than I'd like typing it up. But, as my tcomm professor in college taught us, communication is a two-way interaction. It is up to the sender to ensure the receiver understands the communication and it is up to the receiver to ensure they understand what the sender is communicating.

Also, the title was supposed to be a pun on 'Navigators Rights.' Since I didn't bother to say anything about rights in the body of this blog it kind of missed the mark.