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Almost exactly three years have gone past since I last put pen to paper, or more accurately, finger to keyboard. So much has happened and lots of changes occured. So much chaos, and most of it good, and one very bad thing.
The Updates:
- Work: I am still at Tesla and rocking a new job as a Process Engineering Technician for significant more pay. And it looks like I am to be promoted to a Manufacturing Supervisor by the end of the year which comes with a six figure salary. This naturally means less-hands on work which I love so much, and more desk duty, but at my age, I need to start considering less strenuous work. Speaking of...
- Health: As we all know, the end of 2019, beginning of 2020 brought us the Chinese Bat Faver aka COVID-19. I skirted through it pretty well until I caught it mid 2021. Thankfully it wasn't much more than a common cold for me, but catch it I did, and it spread to wife and daughter. They too weren't much affected. But between that and turning 50 years old this year, I could feel age and years of physical mistreatment of myself starting to catch up and made the difficult decision to pursue a less physical job.
- Home: My wife and I bought a home. It's a lemon. A shifting cracked foundation leads to a lot of cracks in walls, and broken floor tiles. Also, frankly, the city we bought in - while nice neighborhoods abound - is largely a haven to homeless and crime, and it's not safe. We'll sell and move as soon as we are able.
- Wife: I was able to keep my job with the move after the home purchase, but my wife wasn't, and frankly been a struggle for her to find/keep a decent job since.
- Daughter: Still doing college and looking into a program where the college will pay for her Masters and PhD, and give her some spending coin too, if she agrees to be a TA at the same time. Good Deal!
- Son: Still living off-grid and being a bad-ass. I can't say much more than that.
And there are some other things which have changed about my passions and focus, which I hope to eventually get to, but I will save those for later.
The real low-point in the last three years is the death of my beloved furry-boy, Dima.
Cancer got him. We fought like hell to save his life, give him as much possible quality time as we could, but life had other plans and he died in our arms at our home. Eleven years with us, and I still had so many adventures planned.
Anyway, as I said, I hope to continue this blog. More later.
-Brent
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. - Carl Jung
