I met someone early in the year, and it went really well. It seemed we were a great match for each other and I was optimistic that I had found my new partner. Then she started to get less and less responsive and I started to get really anxious about where things were going. Then a few days ago she let me know she accepted a job offer out of state. So it's back to the misery of the dating pool, and now having to compare prospects to this one that got away.

Work is steady, tolerable, and pays the bills, so at least I have that security to rely on. The garden has also been keeping me busy. Hopefully I can get everything planted and the drip irrigation fully going by this weekend.

I haven't made much to post on this site in a while. I got occupied making some structural updates to my Sha Rephart Island, but nothing interesting enough to show off. I did a bit of writing here and there. One day I hope to have a novel trilogy but have no idea if I'll somehow publish them, and kinda expect all the work I put into them will amount to zero audience.

I'm trudging along, definitely been in worse places, but the loneliness and depression that's been hanging on me is hard to ignore. I wound up leaving all the Discord channels I was in; just did not feel connected in them like I used to. Feel like something new needs to start but for the time being things are just stalled out.