Status of My World

Well, folks, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I know I’ve gone from the guy who would post multiple times a day back in my prime, to the guy who posts once a year or so, but, hey, that’s how life goes sometimes.

I’m still the COO at the Makerspace. It’s still challenging as fuck, but, it’s really…beneficial for my mental health.

Work is work: both exhilerating and exhausting. New products are always being released, and while I’m generally known around work as the ‘security dad,’ I still have to put the foot down every now and again to get folks to take me seriously. Admittedly, there’s nothing like an $800k bill to remind folks that I called this out as a risk 45 days ago for them to finally listen to me.

The 2020’s haven’t really been nice to me; I’ve lost 3 people super close to me in the last three years. I’m tired of my friends dying.

Aspen is Aspen. She’s a diva and I’m sure I’m only enabling her more. She got a clean bill of Health at her last visit and she’s got a love/hate/love relationship with Yuri, her groomer. She loves seeing her, then remembers that she’s getting a bath, then loves going outside with her. She comes back in about an hour and a half later, Yuri frazzled, Aspen nice and clean, and then it’s onto the next one.

Storm season really didn’t pan out well for me here in Texas. Denali’s almost 10 years old, so I’m looking to get rid of her soon-ish, but, it’s the ebbs and flows with a truck payment that I really don’t want to deal with right now. I did upgrade the radios in Denali, but, without the weather, it’s not really worth it.

For now, we push through. We figure it out. We move on. My youngest brother’s getting married again in a few weeks, so I’m going to spend time with my family. I need to take some time off of work so I can disconnect and relax: I did take the week off for GTA 6, but, honestly, I’m kind of at the point where I’m not even sure that it’s worth the wait. The older I get, the less time that I want to spend playing video games and the more time I want to spend working on things that bring me happiness.

Love you all, be safe, and if you need me, you know where to find me.