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The more they stay the same. At least so the saying goes. One thing that certainly hasn’t changed anytime recently is the fact that I am still awful at actually updating this in any sort of timely manner. Although really that shouldn’t a huge surprise.

So what have I been up to in the last 3 or 4 months? Not a ton. Certainly not motorcycle riding as I am just over that bike. After a month i finally got her back for about a grand total price tag of near $500. But I just don’t have faith in her anymore so to craigslist she goes. Although i rather suspect that she won’t be sold until next year just based on time of year and when people want to buy motorcycles. Thats ok, I will probably get more money that way as well. The unfortunate part of it is that I will have to wait a while before I can get a new motorcycle as they don’t come cheap and I will be looking to actually upgrade. Simple economics there.

I have also done a little bit of traveling with more coming up. A long weekend in Duluth was great and something that I am going to try and do more often going forward. Which isn’t real hard since I haven’t made a habit of doing weekend trips like that in years. Duluth had all sorts of awesome things that I had never really knew about because I just hadn’t spent time up there. Coming up is a weekend get away to Pittsburgh and then a true blue vacation to Florida. Both times should be fun although most likely in different ways.

Other than that I have been doing a lot of reading lately. On a recommendation the next big set that I will be tackling is at least of of Murakami’s works. Curious to see whether I enjoy them or whether I put them aside as they are a little out of my normal wheel house. Still always a good idea to try new things right?

Work is work which is fine. Nothing particularly exciting but it doesn’t need to be exciting, it needs to pay the bills. I am a lot less worried about finding the ‘perfect job’ than I was when I was younger. I still want a better job, with better pay an more interesting challenges but I am not opposed to sitting around stacking cash as well. Particularly if I can learn interesting things on the side that I might be able to use elsewhere.

And in other news its finally time for me to upgrade from my trusty old iPhone4. Thats right, not even a 4S. My next phone is going to be the Google Nexus5x. I might be writing this on a MacBook Pro sitting on my balcony but I have gotten tired of most of the direction that Apple seems to be headed and since it will hurt to break out of the walled garden whenever I do it, I might as well do it now. I kept hoping that apple would go in a way that felt better to me but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Plus with Google Fi its a great time to do it. The idea of a $30 cell bill is just awesome and way more in line with what it should actually cost.

Otherwise its just a lot of small projects that I am working on at home. Nothing that anybody else will find particularly interesting as they are really focused more on my learning something new rather than what I am actually producing. I suppose the lone exception to that is my efforts to relearn Spanish which are actually going pretty well. Tomorrow will actually mark 100 straight days of Duolingo. Provided I suppose that I actually do it, but I don’t think that will be too big of a problem considering how little I have planned.

And I believe that, for the moment, thats all she wrote. Or I wrote. Or something.

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