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       What a year
       November 14th, 2023
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       What a year it's been. I've barely been on gopher or gemini at
       all. So much going on!
       
       What's eating up all my time? Well, at the start of the year it
       was work, and then getting sick, and then more work as we took on
       a whole extra client that we were pretty sure wasn't gonna stick
       around. That turned out to be correct, and by not staffing up to
       it we avoided having to fire a bunch of people, which I'm thankful
       for. But then I was spent as well.
       
       Summer happened, some travel, some not travel, things started
       settling. Then I traveled for work to a different client thing and
       got covid again. That sucked. My cough is mostly gone, finally.
       
       Then I decided to take Icelandic seriously and enrolled in the
       University of Iceland in a full-time college program. Now that's
       dominating my mornings all week every week, followed by my job
       dominating the afternoon and evenings. In the small gaps I get
       that aren't filled with study, I've been playing in a few TTRPG
       games. Well, running them, mostly, but that counts as play.
       
       I'm in my last regular week of classes now, and final exams are
       two & three weeks out. Then I have the holiday break before the
       second semester. Thankfully this is only a two semester program,
       so by June I'll be back to my own life again.
       
       Oh! and Season 2 of Solarpunk Prompts has started up. I'm writing
       and recording that somewhere in the middle of everything else.
       
       I miss you, gopher! I'll be back, I promise. *sigh*