- I have successfully paid off all my debts. I have a perk at work where we can take loans out of our 401K, and this I did a bit more than a year ago.
- I have nearly moved once, and for real twice.
- Both ZAST and Blur are no longer in my possession. ZAST was turning into a moneypit, so I walked away from that one. Blur ate its second timing chain the day before my birthday.
- Plans were made and broke to move across the country.
- I purchased an urban commuting bicycle and kitted it out for my transportation needs after the above mentioned move, it has one mile on it due to the heinous risk to bicycles in my current area.
- I have more Mora knives than I use, however one is my box opener, another is regularly used in the kitchen, and a third is used for a utility knife. I have two others that will be going into some sort of survival kits.
- I am still using WiFi exclusively, except for the cell phone. I have had to replace the laptop.
- My extended camp kit has been completely changed, the 18' tent was deemed excessive.
- Several of my firearms have been sold off, partially due to living circumstances and lack of security. I felt it was more important to keep them out of undesirable hands and replace them later with more appropriate tools.
- I made a vague attempt at attending Munches and found the few I attended cliquey and unwelcoming.
- I have attended several regional burns.
- My 9V scale which was so integral to my food preparation was replaced by a slim glass topped scale which uses a 2032 lithium cell, about once a year.
- I've moved from doing nearly everything in OpenOffice to cloud based Google Docs, Sheets, etc.
- I am using Google Keep for shopping lists, Journalling and all sorts of things and it syncs to everything I own.
- The paper shredder finally died while processing Polaroids.
- I got a gym membership again, and canceled it six months later.
And now for the new stuff and I'm going to forget a lot:
- Latest move placed me in a two bedroom apartment with a life partner and her daughter, and I just moved everything out of storage and am in the process of doing another heavy reduction in preparation for the next move.
- I have been (personally) car free for six months and the next move must take into consideration the need to remain car free.
- I have a lot of mobile technology and changed my calling plan to allow the mobile hotspot to work.
- I have started gaming again, and have chosen Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition and my primary game of choice. Which has required an explosion of rulebooks. All my prior editions I have discovered in electronic formats, not so with the 5e. Also I now have two foot lockers of D&D supplies, which now need to be sorted and reduced. Instead of going to 3D scenery again, I used a large magnetic whiteboard, magnets, and poster printed maps. That has already been reduced to using Roll20, and the laptop with a large TV as a second monitor for the players.
- I have given away most of my oil painting supplies, as I do not have the ability to leave an easel set up for long periods of time. Instead I switched to oil pastels so I still get to manipulate physical media. Recently I started dabbling in digital media and purchased a digitizer tablet to make it friendlier.
- I am back in therapy for anxiety, depression, existential and suicidal thoughts. I am fighting the day job for time to work on my own creative pursuits. I have a large backlog of projects I want to work on, but being hounded to work overtime and being threatened with no job for refusing. . .so I had to "doctor" up and I qualified for FMLA protections.
- I now have a 1080p capable camcorder (they don't call them that anymore) and have been recording audio only for the past several game sessions I have run, and posted them up on the Youtube.
- I am trying to consolidate my efforts to becoming a published creator, the only thing I need is uptime, but when it hits, the dayjob is usually in the way.
Seems like it or now, stay tuned as I attempt to produce content, one more time!
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