Unplanned and Unprepared. Life Happened.

It's been a bit. When I started this blog I was in a stable place and a stable condition. I thought that I was done with moves and surprises. I would have been perfectly happy to just work for another five or ten years till I retired.

If I'm being completely honest with you but since moving back to Western PA just about six years ago, things have been odd at best and difficult at worst. I've questioned why we moved but for better or for worse, this is home.

Then I lost Facebook and that was one of the drivers, if not the main driver that drove people to this site. Then my job situation changed drastically. At first it was fine but it was clear that the company really didn't have a spot for me, and as they transitioned from "work from home" to "return to the office" it became hard for me to justify a commute of over 100 miles each way.

The jobs that I worked after that were temporary in nature or not the right fit for me. I'm approaching 60 quickly and suddenly the idea of retirement is very, very real. I am entering the last third of my life.

To say that I entered a depression would not be far off. In the last year or two, little was accomplished.

Life became...complicated.

Friends past. Friends were lost.

That doesn't mean things didn't happen, that doesn't mean progress was not made, but a lot of things sort of got put on the back burner and more than a few things just are not going to happen.

So, yes, the blog is back. Yes, I'm hoping to do about two or three posts every month now that I'm back. Yes, I'll be covering nature, writing, home improvement and solar punk. Yes, it will be political at time.

But it is also going to be different. I just don't know in what way yet.

That's the fun part.

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