Mahjong Life and Living

My mahjong this year regressed so hard, such that it has fallen to 3dan twice.  On top of that, any prospect of climbing tokujou at 4dan was nonexistent.  This was not the case 3-4 years ago.  It was actually easy to do, but that has not been the case during the past 2 years.  I do not understand why, but the rank struggle cannot be shaken off. The current game count is at 4463 ranked games.  While it is tempting to round out the count at 5000 games, the cap will be at 4500 or 4600 instead.  Perhaps, I could just bring it back up to tokujou and end it there.  Then there's the end of this cursed year of 2020.  To match it with the end of Tenhou flash, the synchronous end might be poetic. I'll see how I feel about it.  Anyways, here are my numbers currently. I put plenty of my mahjong history into this account.  This is the account where I've taken stats screenshots roughly every 100 games .  However, it may be time to move on from it...

Lent had ended this year.  My pledge to abstain from online mahjong has ended yesterday with the celebration of Easter.  Despite the coronavirus , my church took religious services online; and it was a pleasure to be in observance of it. Looking at my online record, I have not played online mahjong since Feb 24 - the day my cat died .  Did I quit mahjong?  In fact, I played with some real tiles within two days after that day.  That session was my first with Northwestern University's AOTOMO automatic table.  It was a good day, and I needed it.  The laughs were good and contributing to my coping that week.  My last game session due to coronavirus was a month ago on March 14.  That was a good session to send ourselves off to comply with the "stay-at-home" orders. How enthusiastic am I in going back to online play?   Not all that much, but I will play.  After all, I signed up for the USMA  CV Riichi Online Tournament 2020 ....

Wow, just like that, I found my own blog after completely forgetting about it.  Lots of things have happened since then.  Most of it can be summed up in one word: Mahjong.  Yep, the mahjong life has been great and much fun was had.  Though, constant immersion of mahjong does take its toll, as I had been involved with the game not just by playing the game.  I am literally living it.  In any case, it is time I open up myself on a more personal level with this game, through here. Many things have changed since my last post, and I am better for it.  My greatest revelation last year during Anime Central 2018: I like myself .  I thank much of this to my interaction with people via mahjong. Moving forward, I will look to note various insights to mahjong living.

Once upon a time, I used to write into LiveJournal.  Yea, I know.  It's one of those deals, but I found myself drastically less inclined to write there.  Ultimately, I found myself not inclined to write anything at all.  As much as I could write about any topic of a personal nature, it is in the best of my interest to write about just that: my interests. For now, I can start with these two interests: Japanese mahjong SimCity I have plenty more interests.  It is in these two topics, where I would like to get started.  Eventually, I'll be adding more. Yet, before I even get started, I give my Christmas wishes to anyone, who come across this post.  May 2013 be a good year for you.