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June 2016

Still alive…

I’ve just been saying more on Twitter than anywhere else because I’ve been really busy. A lot going on at work, plus I made a weekend run to Baltimore a few weeks ago.

And I’ve been spending a lot of my free time working on Groceteria, both on research and on the site itself. It feels really good actually having the time and inclination to do that again. I didn’t realize quite how much Id been missing it. I’ve been doing things here and there over the past couple of years, particularly for the past six months or so, but my activity level is way up now. And it really helped keep my mind occupied this weekend while all the shit was happening in Orlando…all of which just gets weirder and weirder.

And speaking of surreal: Der Fuhrer is in town tomorrow night. I’ve already planned ahead so I can avoid leaving the house till all the buildings stop burning and the street fights end.

Sigh. Should’ve emigrated when I had the chance…

What gets the credit?

I’m not sure if it’s due to my having gotten rid of the cable, or my minimization of social media consumption, or maybe the fact that my life is much less complicated now that I’ve made tenure and have also ended all the consulting projects and extra work I was doing the past few months. But I feel like the lights suddenly came on again and I’m actually doing things at night and on weekends other than just mindlessly staring at the TV and occasionally going on random and moderately unsatisfying drives.

For example:

  • I’ve gotten really very much into Groceteria again. I’m doing new research, filing and tagging all those articles and images I’ve been avoiding for a couple of years, doing software and UX upgrades, and even diving into some low-level coding for the first time in quite a while (which I’ve also been doing at work). I didn’t realize how much I’d missed my databases.
  • I’ve been reading a lot. Actual books. Not stupid clickbait journalism. It’s been nice.
  • Dinner. With other people. Imagine…