A lot has gone on this year.

It was a year that was very eventful and some events I wish did not happen, and I'm not even speaking politically. In July, I got to say goodbye to my grandfather this summer during a visit to California. He passed away a month or so later, then his funeral (he was cremated) in October. I'm not even sure I am over it, but he was more interesting than the "most interesting man in the world." He helped work on the early computers (with patents), he went to MIT, he was in WW2, he lived in Mexico on a boat for 20 years, raced cars, rebuilt a lotus racecar, worked for NASA...and I'm sure that I haven't even scraped most of what he has done. He loved to learn, and he loved languages. He baked the best biscuits I have ever tasted. I miss him.

I went through three laptops this year. One was the one I had for a few years, the next was borrowed, and the third was the one I got for Christmas after many months of no laptop. I spent a few hours at Microcenter yesterday making sure that the fourth computer this year would not error out on me during updating. So that's where I'm typing from.

I'm working, though even that is unsure at the end of June. I have my master's degree and even that hasn't helped me in the job hunt. Though I'm currently at a place that I love and that has taken me in like family, I'm going to miss it. I do want to have my degree work for me. It would be quite nice if it would and did. Wish things were quite sure.

I am hoping that 2019 will be a better year.