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This weblog has been inactive for quite a while. 1,579 days (or 4.326 years), to be exact-ish! I'm honestly very surprised that it's been that long, because it feels like much less time has passed.

I am still very much alive. I have made some career transitions from developer to web manager to full-on, non-technical management for my day-to-day work. Lately, I've missed application development and web design as a hobby... so, I got on the phone with my web hosts and got this blog working properly again. I hope to post updates of a personal nature in the future, but know better than to fully commit to it right now.

More to come!

Just a quick note to let you know that I am still alive and well here in sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico. The past two years of my life have been an absolute whirlwind. Ups and downs, strikes and gutters (as the Dude says).

Suffice to say, I'm happily re-employed at the New Mexico Department of Transportation, and even though I was away from the agency for 5.5 years, it feels as if I've never left. I am very lucky to work with a group of fine people that will literally do anything for friends, and we have a lot of fun as well. Tonight, several of us will camp in the Pecos wilderness now that parts of the forest have been re-opened.

Does it seem as if, as you grow older, time seems to pass more and more quickly?

That’s how I've been feeling these days... But enough. The month of July has been a lot of fun: fair weather, outdoor adventures, good booze and great friends. It has also been insanely busy month, as far as my occupation is concerned. I’ve recently taken the tactic of trying to convince myself that I enjoy stressful, high-pressure situations. Seems to be working out, but if I've lost all of my hair by Christmas then I might have to take that back.

As I write this, a Bowflex commercial is playing on TV: "I gave all my fat clothes to my fat friends!". What an a-hole, huh? I’ll bet his "fat friends" were like, "Oh, thanks" but peed on his car door handles afterward or something.

Uh-oh, looks like I’m hitting the bottom of my blog-worth thought barrel. I’d better go for now - that whiskey’s not going to drink itself, now is it?