Last Thursday, I lost my father to Stage IV Lung Cancer after a short battle.

(more…)

Has it been a year already?

It feels like yesterday that I wrote 26 but yet, here we are….27.

The past year has been a bit of a up and down for me and realisation of who I really am.
I am not going to flaunt that my 26th year has been great…It has in some cases, but at other times, it hasn’t and like anything else, it is very easy to focus on the negatives.

• I went to New York, Germany and Greece for the first time this year and they were great!
• I got a new apartment this year and that was great!
• I met some new friends and that was great!
• I got depressed due to loneliness but it’s something that I am working on.
• I have a blog that is in the finals of the Blog Awards Ireland 2018 in the Sports Category!

There is probably about 101 things that I have missed, but that is some of the highlights!

So what about 27?

Well, I don’t have any goals and I am not going to set any. Some things that are happening though.

• I am going to Paris, France in February for the Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival
• I am going to Iceland!

And outside of that, I am going to be ‘relaxing’. Work as I have been doing for the last 3 years with Blacknight, work on the Wressling blog and I am planning on starting a new blog in relation to Overwatch Esports for Season 2 of the Overwatch League. More info on that later.

And who knows, plans will change and I cannot plan for an entire year. I have just got to see where 27 takes me!

Much love!

Photo Credit: Geert Pieters

In July, I made a post about Seperating Content where I was splitting my content to other sites.

Well, this hasn’t worked and I feel like that I am putting more pressure on myself to write posts and it’s taking away the goal of what I was trying to achieve.

So I am making a change to the way my content is published.

From here on in, gaming.irish and technology.irish are going to redirect to their respective categories and wrestling.blog content will be duplicated over to here.

Also, I am considering bringing over my padraig.xyz content to either here or pf.ie as either a couple of pages or something else.

I know I do a lot of flip-flopping because I don’t even know myself what I want, but I feel that this is close to what I want.

I will take my time with it though to get it right.

Over the last 9 years, I have been involving myself with a community that I have been trying to build but as of Summer 2017, I have decided to shut it down as it was getting to be too much of a chore to handle and it really wasn’t benefiting me.

Since then, I have been slowly winding down operations and I have decide to focus on myself. I covered in that in my post It’s all about me!

Since then, I have decided to look at stuff that I want to do. More blogging (not just here but on wressling.blog) and focus on doing what I enjoy…Play video games.

The last couple of years of working on Nologam/Enigma have seen me fade away from doing something that I created the community for in the first place…gaming.

So since I have stopped, I am playing more Final Fantasy XIV and I am looking to start doing streams every so often. Just so I can relax…It seems like a good time of year to do that..

I will still be around doing bits and pieces online and I will let you know if I have anything exciting coming up 🙂

First and foremost, the blog post relating to my trip to NYC will be available in drips and drabs over the next week or two!

Before I left for NYC, I decided to make a big decision on the future of my gaming community Enigma (Formerly Nologam) and that was to shut it down.

I have attempting to build a gaming community over the last 9 years and to this day, I have not been successful. After staying up for multiple nights and working on it, I felt that me continuing something that I didn’t have a passion for was….a waste on my physical and mental health.

So I decided to stop. Then today, I decided to look at what sites I was running and make some changes which is manageable and don’t require an absurd amount of time to maintain.

Padraig.blog will be staying as my main blog and there is no plans to change that!
Wrestling.irish is going to get a rebrand and will become Wressling.blog – More news on that over on wrestling.irish in the coming days/weeks.

As Enigma/Nologam has now been closed down, I have set up my own Discord server so people can keep in touch with me. If you wish to join, go to d.pf.ie

I may create something new in the future, but for now:

“It’s all about me”