This is a small update for a Now post.
I updated my About page to reflect some changes in the last year, both in my life and with how this site is organized.
I have been slowly (once a week) returning to volleyball after over 6 months away due to injury. My shoulder is still not 100%, even after PT, but at this point, I think the only thing that will make it better is using it without overdoing it. I definitely need to add back in the cardio I have been missing.
Ancestral Worm has a solid set of material and we’re working on recording demos to get out on Bandcamp and book some shows. I’ve been doing some gear swapping that will have to show up on the Uses page once things settle down.
I’m headed to Disneyland for the first time since I was under a year old for a work event later this month and then down to Florida for a funeral/memorial for Elsa’s grandma at the end of the month. Nothing is fully finalized, but the next trip after that is likely going to be Portland/Seattle again, this time with Elsa in tow.
The winter weather this year has been brutal on my mental health, so the fact that next week we’re going to be consistently in the 60s during the day exciting me far more than it probably should.
Oh, and of course, I am trying mightily to find the right balance of staying informed and doomscrolling, since it seems Trump and the GOP are finding no roadblocks to destroying our federal government and accelerating the downfall of my home country. I, like many others, feel powerless to stop it, in the face of having hollered for years that this is exactly what was going to happen. I’ve become less and less mad these days and increasingly just sad, and I know that if nihilism fully creeps in everything will get worse.