What happened?!

Early this year I posted a run-down on armies and navies finished off during the course of 2025. Although I have added a few little items since - e.g. the Settee Empire (Turcowaz) got a small ironclad gun ship, and the chubby merchant fleet got an extra vessel about a week ago - really my forces are pretty much complete as they now stand, with no further additions required. Rather, I find myself with a few loose ends - orphaned figures in trivial numbers I'm not sure what to do with.

That would, one might suppose, offer more time for (a) war gaming and (b) the writing up thereof. That isn't happening... and I don't know why. OK, it's the blahs. Sort of.  I have such a backlog of postings to post; the second chapter of Waterloo 2.0 is in draft (and that has taken a good 6 weeks to get started, even); the first two land battles of the Little Great War have been fought and pictured: and I haven't yet put together a proper war narrative for the Little Great War...

Little Great War: Battle of Azaen, 11 June, 1884

Little Great War: Battle of Azmezidon, 15 June 1884

What happened to my version of the Battle of Aspern-Essling?! That was played out last August! This really is reprehensible.

Aspern-Essling, Morning, 21 May 1809

Aspern-Essling, about midday, 22 May

This morning I was glancing through an old Wargames Illustrated magazine and lit on an article about the 30YW Battle of Breitenfeld. I had clean forgotten that I played out a 'Breitenfeld' on my hex table back in December. Had I posted it? Nope. No idea where the notes went, but methinks the Waterloo campaign narrative will have to wait upon a brief write-up of the 30YW action. This will be less a battle narrative than a write-up of the army organisation, adaptations of the Portable P&S rule set, and the limitations of my small table (or of overlarge armies!).

Midway through the 'Battle of Breitenfeld'. I don't recall 
what was the final result!

I wonder if it is because I have so many projects pretty much completed in terms of established armies. Could it be that I have reached a 'Buridan's Ass' impasse, unable at any given time satisfactorily to decide which project to focus on? Un embarras de richesses it is. Perhaps certain global events are distracting me - I certainly have been following the major conflicts with a great deal of interest, trying to pierce the fog of mal-information this country is receiving and passing off as 'News'. That has had some effect upon my war gaming, and has more than once led to my wondering why I war game at all, or even whether I ought.

Time methinks to wake up, and level off the backlog mountain...