It's been nine years since I poated a journal to this thing. I suppose some updates are in order. Since Halloween 2013, I have...

- Gotten engaged, then married
- Had two kids (technically my wife had the kids, I just read the instructions)
- Moved back to Wisconsin from New Mexico
- Changed jobs twice
- Became a full-time consultant
- Sold a house in NM, bought a house in WI
- Had a car accident, bought a new one
- Nearly lost my mom to viral pneumonia before COVID came along
- Became 100% work-from-home since the pandemic started (that's a double-edged sword)
- Had two colonoscopies
- Lost two grandparents (one to cancer, one to Alzheimers)
- Celebrated my last grandparent turning 100 (she's 101 now)
- Became an uncle (twice)
- Got into some really neat video games but swore off MMOs
- Discovered I'm allergic to beer
- Tried crypto trading, bailed out of that dumpster fire
- Got into HAM radio (still licensed, not as active)
- Made several improvements to our house
- Finally established (much needed) boundaries with my family
- Made a machinima short film
- Found out our kids are autistic
- Found out I'm autistic
- ... and still managed to avoid catching COVID (so far).

Admittedly I mostly live over on Twitter, although who knows how long that will last now that Melon Husk is in charge now. Hopefully it won't burn entirely to the ground.

I haven't had time to do a lot of leisure stuff like streaming, not that I did much prior to anyway, but with two kiddos with special needs, frankly getting an uninterrupted night's sleep is a luxury sometimes.

So yeah... that's nine years jammed into three minutes. If you really want to keep up with my BS, Twitter is probably your best bet.