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Prologue

I shake off the vestiges of slumber and hurry down the hallway. I scowl at my watch; I slept in to 3 AM's alarm. Time runs through my fingers and down my arms.

Scene 1

Applying my electric kettle, I boil water, adding it and 12 tbsps of butter to my Vitamix. While blending at a quarter speed in stealth, I add the refrigerated ~20 oz of coffee I had brewed the night prior. I pour that atop a half-iced Yeti. He growls in acquiescence.

Instantly, I take a big swig from the stein and feel the rush to my veins.

Scene 2

I set my phone to run through Matthew Colville's Running the Game. I find his discussion of adding politics to Dungeons & Dragons to be thought-provoking. I like his drawing of comparisons between the Civil War, the Cold War and the original Battlestar Galactica.

• Politics 101: The Central Tension (27:55)
• The Politics of Peace (23:29)
• High Level NPCs, Followers and DMPCs (29:34)
• Sandboxing! (28:40)
• Using 4E to Make 5E Combat More Fun (38m of 58:43)

Scene 3

Now that I have got my brew at hand and my lectures for the morning, I run through my morning campaign—things like clearing the dishwasher so that I can clean as I go with my baking; or another: run a load of clothes so that I can use the warm surface of the clothes dryer to incubate the dough.

I engage in encounters that are bread-centric...well, there is that crockpot of beans that is to be seasoned and then unplugged to coast to the finish line.

It is only a minor setback. I return to the focus of forming bread.

Scene 4

It is nearly 4 AM. I have a moment to lift in the garage. Training in a furystorm, I feel rushed; I do not have enough time. I cannot finish my new resistance routine. After 3 supersets, my timer pops up.

I have to return to crafting bread.

I chuckle as I consider that I have never seen that play out at the gym. "Must be the carbs!"

Scene 5

After forming the loaf, I re-emerge in the garage to commence my traning. But, I fail to finish that last superset.

I am all Bruce Banner: I cannot get keyed up again to power through my routine as The Hulk.

I feel weak from the prior thirty sets to finish these final, ten dumbbell sets. I must shelve this incline bench with its Arnold press mate, a combination that is accented by crunches.

Scene 6

I checkmark the daily task of kicking off the pool filter before sunrise. I return inside and build my carnivore meal for the day, another day toward something I cannot see.

The oven timer rings out.

It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera One closes in
The soundtrack starts
The scene begins

You're playing you now

-Josh Jopin, Camera One