Heya folks! I hope y'all have been great, even the passersby with whom I've probably never talked. I haven't said anything in a while, and figured I may as well wish y'all a Happy New Year. I remain cautiously optimistic, but I look forward to 2021.

I'm still not great at keeping in contact! If you miss me, I probably miss you! Feel free to give me a poke whenever.

Online, I'm still splitting my time between a few different social circles, goals, hobbies and desires for arts & crafts. I'm still working on making goofy things on-and-off in the game Second Life. I remain optimistic. I'm not 100% sure if/where I'd announce those things in FA; I hadn't often intended on having those exchanges. When I began making uploads to FA, I had posted my personal works in the scraps section, figuring my artistic skills were not strong and wouldn't be center-stage. That's still the case, but I would like to eventually share. I used the main gallery to post commissions and gifts for me, made by other people, especially in gratitude that they took that time for me.
The top project I wanna finish, and am nearest to finishing, isn't particularly "furry" but I'd like to share it when I can, keeping it vague until that day. I'm absolutely giddy when I think about it, but then again I'm some sort of nerd. For the time being, I should probably focus on doing what I'm saying rather than only say what I'm doing, and continue to be mindful of the Dunning Kruger effect.

In Real Life, conditions are still quite backwards, and while I have a continuously growing sense of uncertainty due to the struggles of myself and the rest of the world, I remain optimistic. I keep moving closer to goals and I keep gaining useful clarity.
IE, in my priorities, I've realized that if I had a button I could push that offered strong short-term gain but delayed long-term goals, I would get stuck pushing that button for hours, to an unhealthy extent. That's not just hypothetical, either; I've found that button in the form of playing music. Sometimes I'd often focus on music I like and get caught up imagining if it was performed acapella (sung without instruments). Sometimes that focus is on repeatedly playing my favorite parts. Sometimes I'd listen to a heavily-layered song like Pendulum's "Propane Nightmares" and marvel at it, trying to recognize all the unusual choices for sounds, patterns and tweaks. It's not wrong to have a hobby, but if I'm mindful, I can just snap out of it, ask myself "am I always pushing that button" and move on with my life. I imagine lots of people have similar problems with browsing social media and/or their phones.

At the moment, I'm infinitely proofreading this post, and it's time to "stop pushing that button". I haven't expressed myself in writing very often and it's nice. I should instead push the "Create/Update Journal" button and move on.

Have a great 2021 folks!