Birthdays and such
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It's my birthday. I don't really like birthdays in
general but it feels extra weird now that I'm
having my second birthday of the pandemic.

I'd hoped to at least hang out with people outside
my home but, alas, that was not to be this year.

I always get darkly introspective on my birthday
but, god, I'd really rather just focus on all the
things I want to do and be and accomplish.

It's the day after the solstice I'd rather focus
on the light and hope coming. I don't particularly
celebrate christmas but the solar events have
always had a lot of meaning for me.

I gave my musical performance. It was streamed so
I'll go ahead and either link to the VOD or my own
personal recording soon. I think it went okay? At
the very least I think it did what I needed it to
do, which was be listenable if melancholy piano
music.

Wouldn't it be great if I could start doing in
person performances again, like I did for the
first time literally a few weeks before covid hit?

We put the last of our christmas decorations and I
managed to pick up [REDACTED] for [REDACTED]. I
also got Amazon gift cards from my father, for a
very not trivial amount of money. Since Jeff Bezos
already has his money I might as well use them to
get something nice for myself. Maybe a synth.