Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. My esteemed colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The state of The Brian is strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming off the release of The Repossessed Ghost<\/em>, I am feeling satisfied. A life-long dream has been realized, and now I’m developing new dreams to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My health is stable. I’m taking hypertension medicine, but only occasionally, as my blood pressure is staying relatively normal. The low sodium diet appears to be working for me, and I have been exercising more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I could stand to exercise a lot more, but progress is being made, and progress needs to be acknowledged. Continued progress will lead to a leaner, stronger Brian, the kind of Brian that will see many more summers, many more conventions, and will likely produce many more books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I haven’t been drafting as much as I like, but I think focusing on the release of The Repossessed Ghost<\/em> is appropriate writer activity, and it has taken some time and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People have reached out and given me amazing compliments with regards to The Repossessed Ghost<\/em>. Yesterday at Michael Gallowglas’s shows, he made my book available to his audience, and his support specifically has been life affirming. I feel spoiled. I feel appreciated. This is a good time to be Brian C. E. Buhl, and I’m trying to live in the moment and appreciate it all as much as I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had some hiccups on the goal of writing a blog post every day in July, but as of this post, we are fully caught up and back on track. We have successfully talked about Shoes<\/a> and Mashed Potatoes<\/a>, and we managed to get to the other side of The Byzantine-Sasanian War of 620-628 AD<\/a>. We have operated this platform with integrity, and we will continue to keep the light on in this place for as long as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As far as my day job is concerned, I’m behind on some important work, and that has created a great deal of stress. With regards to extracurricular activities, I have been playing quite a bit of Project Zomboid, especially with Mike and Nick. That’s been excellent fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tonight, I started a new keyboard, the keyboard I intend to make available for the giveaway at the next Writing Excuses Retreat on the Alaskan cruise. Melissa and I have selected our offshore excursions, and we’re both quite excited for them. The near future looks bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I sit here tonight, I have never been more optimistic about my future. I just have to continue to remember who I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am Brian C. E. Buhl and there is nothing beyond my capacity to accomplish, as long as I have the support and love of my friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May God bless us all. May God protect our troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. My esteemed colleagues. The state of The Brian is strong. Coming off the release of The Repossessed Ghost, I am feeling satisfied. A life-long dream has been realized, and now I’m developing new dreams to follow. My health is stable. I’m taking hypertension medicine, but only occasionally, as my blood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48495,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48494\/revisions\/48495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}