How are things? Outstanding. Those of you who've known me for any length of time know that I'm running out of superlatives to describe how rad my life is from one month to the next. I am awash in wonderfulness. I am the embarrassment of all my hipster friends. My life positively gleams with unironic contentment. Srsly.

 

The first (only?) biggish development since last time is the recent update to my Facebook relationship status. For those of you who are not total dorks, what I mean is that I now have a lovely girlfriend: Ms Jenny "Jet" Summers. I met Jet at our big 4th of July party in Oregon last month. At the time, she was just one among a dozen delightful people I met that weekend.

She lives across the sound in Port Orchard, but her good friend Robert Tierney lives in Bellingham. We met up again at a birthday party here in B'ham a couple weeks later, and by the end of the weekend we both realized that there may be something more to us than friends. In short: I think Jet is someone truly special, and I hope you all get a chance to meet her sometime. Assuming you haven't already. If you have, then you already know it. :)

 

I'm sure you want to know more but (A) I am probably not going to tell you, since I enjoy being coy; and (B) there are also a lot of other things I want to mention here, if very briefly.

 

I still haven't sold my car. I have, however, let the insurance lapse again and won't be driving anywhere. So it's parked until I can get around to cleaning it again and tossing up an ad on Craigs. I'll be back to riding my bike to the greenhouse this weekend: a sure sign that my schedule is uncrunching itself once more and all of these new developments are falling into a nice new version of my old routine.

 

Last week I made the final payment on the smallest of my four major debts. Paid off! The minutia of my personal accounts is utterly unexciting, but suffice to know that this is a big milestone for me. 

 

Things are going fine at the mill and the nursery as usual, but it's my side-projects that I've found the most interesting lately...

 

... er, and for now I'm going to cop-out completely and just hand you the 8 meaningless project headers from my dashboard folder w/o any explication at all. None of these are super-secret or anything, I'm just getting tired of typing. I promised I would get this entry up tonight and I really don't feel like launching into any more descriptions tonight.

 

For the record, they are:

(active) "RUINnation", "Skyperun", "BNA", "A/V"

(mid-build) "Nodeslam"

(still in the idea phase) "E2M", "Windpunk", "Wheatberry"

If I get motivated tomorrow I'll try to expand on each of these further.