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A page that updates periodically about what I'm up to and into right now. You are viewing the version of this page from December 29, 2025.

Making

I have some freelance in the hopper and I've been doing some light tinkering with my little computers, but the long drought of Real Art drags on. I did put up my 2025 top albums list, even if the blurbs are a little shorter than previous years, and it felt good to get something out the door after many weeks of stagnating.

In the hopes of kickstarting a creative revival I have started sort-of screwing around in Blender. Made a classic donut that looks okay. The little bit of 3D stuff I know is all Rhino and Grasshopper and NURBS so this world of mesh sculpting and geometry nodes is very strange to me. Might as well plug away at it while I have nothing else to do.

That job I interviewed for right before Thanksgiving did not pan out, and I haven't hit on anything else since. So that sucks, like always. Let me know if you are hiring a mid-level designer

Doing

I've been all over the place, man. Virginia for Thanksgiving, then back in Pitsburgh for a big slog of an early winter, then back home for Christmas. Lauren starts a new job next week and we are going back to Adams County again in a couple of days. Seen a lot of the most dismal parts of Pennsylvania this month. But, you know, it's all for family and you gotta appreciate having everyone together when you can.

It was a pretty low-key set of holidays, all around. Basically everyone in my family decided to do our Christmas shopping at the grocery store, so the gifts exchanged were stuff like nice olive oil and popcorn seasoning and fig spread. Can't complain. I'm 27 now and I need a Trader Joe's gift card worse than I'll ever need another desk trinket.

Thinking

It's very nearly the end of 2025, which if I can be candid for a second has probably been the worst year of my life. I was unemployed for the whole thing and depressed for most of it. I didn't really achieve anything notable or even make anything I like that much, and I mostly fucked around on the computer doing small-time stuff that doesn't add up to anything.

None of these problems are attached to what year it is and I don't imagine that their root causes will collapse when it becomes January, but I also know that you gotta have something, so I am squeezing what I can out of the corny notion that 2026 will be a fresh start. I finally worked out a regular therapist and I am about to try a third medication and maybe that'll be the charm. And I'm about to reorganize my desk and I bought a Far Side calendar.

Reading

I've been on a nonfiction kick since I finished Embassytown (which was great). Reread Ken Jennings' Planet Funny and it held up, and I'm working my way through Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations.

Listening

Putting together my top-albums-of-2025 list made me revisit a lot of releases from this year, and Djrum's Under Tangled Silence really hooked me again. Check that out.