1st post in a while. Lots going on, from exhaustive work demands, mental health challenges and a brief "guys weekend" with my core "geek" friends from Apple and beyond. We've now known each other for over half of our lives or close to it. Do you know how there are movies that feature a group of old farts that have known each other for decades? That's us sans the swimming pool with the alien pod that revitalizes our vim and vigor. I have a couple of 'cliques' of friends I've known for this long or longer. I'm grateful and conscious of the gift that is, as I am of the gift of having lived long enough to obtain this perspective. It was a good weekend. I want to do more and include more. I'm coordinating an open house to bring more and more of these factions into the same room at once. "Crossing Streams," as it was deemed, seems warranted. I'm back home, back at work, and I felt the stress tighten around my next as I got pulled into work issues even while heading to the airport. Something, besides my sanity, has to give. I'm working to find that balance. I find solace in routines but grow restless with redundancy. How's that for a quagmire? Lucky pee'd on our bed (a lot) while Jen was coming to get me from the airport last night. A welcome home message, I guess? I got through the workday with very few breaths between meetings but felt good about my engagement and some progress made. Still, there's a lot going on and will be throughout the year, which factored into my mental health issues. Balancing the vast array of personal struggles throughout 2022, facing some financial challenges on the horizon, and recognizing what might be a fall ahead in the distance of these rapids causes me to hyperventilate.
