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Keeping on...
May. 29th, 2023 06:40 amFiling taxes in two countries remains a project. Luckily as a living-outside-the-US-ian we get a free automatic two-month extension, which brings the two tax years kinda-sorta into alignment. I still have to calculate all the income and expenses and stuff for two different tax years for deductions and non-job income and so on.
My arm is much better. Definitely not 100%, but I'm mostly recovered for dexterity tasks like typing and piano. I can't lift a ton of weight yet and I get tired a bit more quickly. Still, not doing badly at all. "Tendon damage" sounds much more ominous than how it's been day-to-day.
Mostly life is just life. I have the big list of tasks I'm burning through, slowly. As I recover, I go through it faster.
Shopify is still basically good. The larger economic climate isn't great there, like everywhere. We had a second round of layoffs recently, but I kept my job. In theory there will be no more big layoffs, just like after the last round.
Krissy is getting the land she'd hoped to buy from a neighbour at a price that is expensive, but not as utterly ridiculous as his initial asking price. It's gonna take time to pay off that and the roof and so on. "And so on" is about to include our septic tank needing a full rebuild and replacement, because houses. I need to be thinking about whether I can find ways to make extra money here and there. But mostly it's just going to take time, fewer vacations and so on. We're not in bad shape, but I really enjoyed being basically debt-free. We are no longer basically debt-free. We have switched back to "we have a small mortgage." Which is fine, but feels quite different.
I've been putting a lot of time into trying to make a tech-social community happen here, mostly centred around the web meetup I now organise. It's a small community for that at the best of times, and these aren't the best of times. Still, I'm learning a lot about what people are looking for, giving some local talks, meeting the local organisers and generally doing useful stuff. I think longer-term it'll work out fine.
I'm off to run this morning with my wonderful wife, as I've been doing occasionally for awhile here. Say a couple of times a week on average? I rode to town and back on the bike yesterday, so I'm basically back on that after the wrist surgery. We eat well. In some sense my health is as good as it's been in a very long time. Then again, I'm also nearly 47. So, mixed.
My arm is much better. Definitely not 100%, but I'm mostly recovered for dexterity tasks like typing and piano. I can't lift a ton of weight yet and I get tired a bit more quickly. Still, not doing badly at all. "Tendon damage" sounds much more ominous than how it's been day-to-day.
Mostly life is just life. I have the big list of tasks I'm burning through, slowly. As I recover, I go through it faster.
Shopify is still basically good. The larger economic climate isn't great there, like everywhere. We had a second round of layoffs recently, but I kept my job. In theory there will be no more big layoffs, just like after the last round.
Krissy is getting the land she'd hoped to buy from a neighbour at a price that is expensive, but not as utterly ridiculous as his initial asking price. It's gonna take time to pay off that and the roof and so on. "And so on" is about to include our septic tank needing a full rebuild and replacement, because houses. I need to be thinking about whether I can find ways to make extra money here and there. But mostly it's just going to take time, fewer vacations and so on. We're not in bad shape, but I really enjoyed being basically debt-free. We are no longer basically debt-free. We have switched back to "we have a small mortgage." Which is fine, but feels quite different.
I've been putting a lot of time into trying to make a tech-social community happen here, mostly centred around the web meetup I now organise. It's a small community for that at the best of times, and these aren't the best of times. Still, I'm learning a lot about what people are looking for, giving some local talks, meeting the local organisers and generally doing useful stuff. I think longer-term it'll work out fine.
I'm off to run this morning with my wonderful wife, as I've been doing occasionally for awhile here. Say a couple of times a week on average? I rode to town and back on the bike yesterday, so I'm basically back on that after the wrist surgery. We eat well. In some sense my health is as good as it's been in a very long time. Then again, I'm also nearly 47. So, mixed.
