A page that updates periodically to reflect what I’m currently working on, and what I’m currently interested in. A concept by Derek Sivers that I first became aware of through longtime colleague Jack Grimes.

Last Updated: December 29th, 2024

Making

A lot less tactical, technical making happening recently and a lot more musical making here recently. Watching The Game Awards, and hearing the Balatro theme played live (even if it was converted to 4/4 over 7/4 time, cheats), inspired me to make a fun Balatro synthwave remix. Needs a little more polish, but I’d love to publish this one.

Doing

God, so much doing here recently. I boguht a car, woooo. We beat the dealership by a country mile (they didn’t want me to hit their gong, haha, which is a telltale sign that I didn’t make them a lot of money), but I ain’t mad about that. I started this updatein the air on my way to my hometown to visit vamiliy for the holidays, and I feel like I’ve been running a marathon for a little it here. It’s been buck wild for a bit here, but we’ll be okay.

Otherwise, work work, zug zug. No real exciting work happening in the Incus camp at the moment, but soon I hope to completel my PR to add DNS-01 support to its LEGO implementation. Will hopefully sharpen my Golang chops, and grant me buy in for the team.

Oh, and speaking of the trip back to the hometown, of which I’m Now (haha funny pun) sitting in the single post-security bar/restaurant/breakfast joint in the entirety of the vaunted Quad Cities International Airport. I got to see a lot of family and friends, including several surprises that I didn’t expect. Been a long week, but the disconnect from much of my life has been quite valuable. While I don’t think I feel refreshed, I do feel an energy to tackle challenges in front of me. I might like to take some time aside for self-reflection, but I think this was a good stopgap for that.

Thinking

Man… it’s been over a month since we did one of theses. I’ve been thinking about a lot. Rececntly, a family member came back into my life, and it’s been interesting to reintroduce them into my life. I don’t really want to get into the details of it all, but it’s not all been sunshine and rainbows. it’s not all been awful either, but it’s full of messy emotions and feelings and such, and I"m trying to sort my way through it.

I’m also thinking a bit about what it means to be me, what I want from things, and also how I’m feeling in, well, life. As mentioned above, I need more space in my life to do these refflections, and until I have the space in my house to make this feasible, I think I need to find a retreat for these kinds of things. Th enext question is however, “where”?

Playing

Why play actual game when can play Unnnamed Space Idle? This has been what I’ve been playing for the lions share of my time since I last posted. It’s… a time suck. But a fun time suck. But also a big time suck. I need to figure out how much I’m willing to put into this going forward.

Sharon and I might start up Helldivers 2 though. I guess it’s on sale (I haven’t even looked at Steam since the sale started). I think a little Super Democracy could go a long way to making me feel a little better.

Listening

Music has been interesting. I lost Whamageddon during the car ride to pick up a rental last week. Which, like, that doesn’t matter in the slightest but it’s a silly game played by silly people. It’s me. I’m silly people.

Now, regretful music listening aside, I want to get back to diving through Dance with the Dead’s discography. I think there’s some great fodder for the EotC soundtrack in there, assuming we’re doing more there. And well, in a few weeks, I’ll be at MAGFest, and there’s a lot of things I’ll be listening to there, the least of which being all o fmy friends and colleagues who make wonderful music with me.