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IT LIVES

January: FloridaFebruary: Friend visits (Not Pictured)

March: MexicoApril: Friend VisitsMay: Rhode IslandJune: NYC

Not bad at all so far. Lets see what the back half brings.

But I know it won’t be boring.

Yes after much prodding there comes a long delayed update. Why has it been delayed? All sorts of reasons, some of which I will mention and some I won’t.

So lets see, in October I went on the aforementioned trips to pittsburgh and florida, both of which were, as predicted, a great deal of fun in different ways. Would repeat both and with any luck I will get the chance to do so. Also took a short trip to DC in the beginning of December which was, as always, a lot of fun. Sometimes I think I would live in that city if it weren’t so damn expensive. Still I love it every time I go there for any reason or length of time. Since then the only trip I have taken is a short one to Eau Claire and then Wausau. Got to see some old friends from college (although man does the town feel different) and have some beers and then got to see my sister and brother in law. Overall a pretty good time for both parts. Coming up the only currently planned travel is to Mexico for a short bit. Should be fun as it was last year.

One of the things that has contributed to me not updating this as much is my efforts to find new (or any?) hobbies. I never really replaced video gaming when that sort of fell off for me and that needs to change somewhat. It hasn’t really worked per se but I have put some efforts in. More reading, more walking around the neighborhood, more going to the gym etc all is contributing to me sort of spending less time online. Although in fact I am not actually spending less time online despite my best intentions. Instead I often end up in the reddit time sink which isn’t great. Still, I am putting in the work and eventually that will pay some dividends either with some new hobbies or at least with a healthier body since I am doing a pretty good job of getting to the gym 3-5 times a week lately. Sometimes even more although thats pretty rare. While its not paying immediate dividends in my waistline I am finding it easier to go to sleep again so thats something.

Speaking of health, I might as well mention my current bugaboo. In October I started having some issues with dry eyes that would come and go. Towards mid November they started to get worse and in two doctors appointments about 5 days apart I was diagnosed with a Corneal Erosion. They are not something I recommend to others at all. Coming up on 2 months later and I am still not exactly ‘healed’ and whenever I am I will need new glasses as my rx in my right eye has certainly changed. How much the final change will be is yet to be determined. That has also contributed, noticeably, to my lack of time online. Spending 8 hours a day at work on a computer, however much time with my phone and then the rest of it probably didn’t help my eye. Might not have caused it but probably exacerbated the issue. That said I have still been finding myself spending an inordinate amount of time online, as previously mentioned.

Speaking of spending 8 hours online at work, sadly they aren’t the most productive hours of my day these days. I still do my job and do it well but it generally doesn’t feel like a ‘challenge’ in the good sense unfortunately. As such its that time of … year? decade? Life? Whatever where I am dusting off the resume and updating it to make myself look like the rockstar that I am and find something that interests me a little more and makes me excited about going to work again. Not sure what that is going to be but I am definitely spreading my wings a fair amount more than I was at this time a year ago. Not sure how it is all going to play out at this point but I am certainly curious to find out.

Sadly, I wish I could pretend that there was more exciting things going on in my life but I can’t even lie that convincingly to myself. The goal (or one of them) however is make things more exciting in one way or another. Its just somewhat harder the older you get I have noticed. Still beats the alternative however.