Hello! I am alive, and blogging again

Hello! I haven’t written anything on this website in a hot minute so it felt like time to do that. It’s very easy for me not to blog because I feel like I don’t have anything interesting to post about, so this is going to be a probably not-very-important blog post.

Some fun things happening in my day-to-day:

• I’ve become a bit of a sports guy lately. My local hockey team had a dissapointing season, but I’ve been enjoying football (aka soccer) and have season tickets for our local team. It’s been great to get really into the sport I played a lot as a kid. Makes me want to play again locally! There are some casual adult leagues, which I’ve been thinking about joining.
• Been listening to lots of music, as usual. I have a Last.fm account I’ve been updating regularly now, so if you want to see what I’ve been scrobbling (truly the silliest name of all time) you can look at my profile here.
• I’ve been biking a lot more now that the weather has warmed up! I’m only in office 2 days a week but have mostly been biking to work on those two days. We’re in the finishing stages of a protected bike lane close to the soccer stadium, so I’ve been monitoring progress of that, and using it when I can.
• Also been playing lots of fighting games. Mostly the new Under Night game, but also trying to dabble with other games - Guilty Gear Xrd, and maybe trying a team game. Riot is working on their game 2XKO, which seems very fun, but I haven’t really played a team game, so I’m thinking about trying DBFZ, Skullgirls, or maybe Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, as we have some local players that like to play it.
• I’ve been messing around with music making a bit also. Mostly electronic stuff - I’m on a big dance music kick at the moment. I’ve also been making slow progress on trying to learn how to DJ also, which has been a good experiment in trying to get better at identifying what music goes well together. It’s easy to feel discouraged about my progress here sometimes because I haven’t finished songs or anything, but my short term goal is to just keep making small things, and use that momentum & consistency to help make bigger ideas, like whole songs.

Things I’ve read/watched lately

• A brief history of web development. And why your framework doesn’t matter.
• Inside the Coyotes' stunning move from Arizona to Utah
• Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
• I Completed Pokemon Emerald’s Ridiculous Pokedex (video)
• Smiling Friends, S1 (I watched on Max - really fun absurdist Adult Swim show. Big fan!)

That’s all for now! Hopefully I will be posting more :-)