I'll echo what is an increasingly common intro to a gopher post: LTNP 
(long time, no phlog).  With a new baby in the house and two older kids 
and other family members that all deserve attention, I've struggled to 
find time to even read gopher.  And man am I sleep deprived right now...

Some things I'm working on, albeit in very small fits and starts 
scattered across my sparse free time:

* Continuing to push a LUG at my local makerspace.  One current group 
project is to build a DIY version of the piratebox [1] and deploy it in 
the library where the makerspace is located.

* Several collaborative projects on rawtext.club.  One (which I haven't 
had my *own* hands on for some time) is a refactoring of linkulator, 
making it run on Unix Domain Sockets rather than its previous use of a 
setuid binary wrapper that calls a bash script.  Another is an email 
inbox monitor that parses incoming mail and responds in variably 
programmed ways.  And another is "GitBBS", written by other rawtext.club 
members, which provides a basic flat-file bbs functionality powered by 
git clone/fetch/pull commands.

* I still have a gravity battery powered Raspberry Pi project on the 
back burner.  But given all the commotion at home, I just don't have the 
time or space to work on the next physical construction phase.  I'll 
pick this project back up when time allows.

* And I just switched my personal laptop from Ubuntu to Arch, so I'm 
learning the ins and outs of Arch system administration.  This is not 
much of a "project" but still fun.

* I've also been spending more time than I should worrying about the 
state of politics in the U.S..  Mainstream media has so thoroughly 
crippled popular discourse that this next election seems entirely 
unlikely to address the major societal problems for which a unified 
government response is truly needed.  I want to create a web tool that 
tracks topics on the front page of mainstream news sites and allows 
users to visualize the gaps or areas of overemphasis in each one.  
Anyone want to team up with me on this?  It would be like another layer 
on top of tfurrows' NotFox website [2]

* Despite my sleep deprivation, or maybe because of it, I've been doing 
a lot of exercising.  My two antidotes to lack of sleep are (1) drinking 
tons of water and (2) exercising.  Luckily my office gym is one floor 
down from my office so I run down there whenever I have 30+ minutes 
free.  (EDIT: Oops, I forgot to mention coffee.)

* And, I've been paying more attention to the neat cross-over of people 
who are both interested in pubnixes and ham radio.  I've seen some great 
intro material by jboverf [3] of circumlunar.space and kraptv from 
skylab.org.  I've also enjoyed the ham posts from shane of 
ascendingcreations.com [4].  I certainly do not have time for ham right 
now, but I'll keep paying attention so that when the time is right, I'll 
be fluent enough to dip my toes in the water.

[1] https://piratebox.cc/
[2] http://notfox.com/
[3] gopher://colorfield.space/0/~jboverf/10_ham_radio_quick_start.txt
[4] gopher://ascendingcreations.com/1/shane/