Hey again Xanga. What's all this Xanga 2.0 nonsense? Gorram newfangled malarkey. Back in my day, we had REGULAR Xanga, no fancy numbers added, and it was uphill both ways through a foot of snow, and we LIKED it. Now excuse me while I continue to yell at this cloud.

...anyway. Let's see. Today is my first work anniversary at Avitide! A company that started with such promise. A company that has devolved into a game of Musical Chairs for its dwindling employees. Well, I've avoided losing the game for four years now - but Musical Chairs ins't exactly known for producing a lot of winners, in the end. Point is, long term prospects here are down - but resume' padding is up! (Four years industry experience, baby! No more chicken-and-egg can't-get-job-until-you-get-experience-which-you-can't-get-until-you-have-a-job-which-oh-boy-this-is-a-lot-of-unnecessary-dashes-now-okay-I'll-stop.)

Oh. Also. I be married again! Yay! Dr. Jacqueline Mtage Kihwele is my lovely wife. We are officially* (*Totally unofficially, nobody changed names) House Kiki. Kihwele and Kier. It's very Katchy I MEAN CATCHY OOPS TOO MANY Ks THREE Ks IN A ROW ARE BAD. We were going to get married for mostly immigration reasons... and then her H1B visa worked out and she technically didn't need me, but we were like... fuck it, we're in love, why let the government dictate what we do? I mean, fuck the current US government in particular. Fuck it right in the face.
...but I digress. Married! Yay! So apparently there are still good people left in the world. Holy fuck she's amazing. Let's check back in four years and see how I feel. (Jacque if you're reading this: of course I'll still be in love with you, you're amazing.) Life throws a lot of curveballs but I have a very good feeling about all parts of my life outside of short-term career prospects. And Jacque is the reason for that.

Eh, what else... some miscellaneous drama related to a woman I very briefly dated three years ago, who broke up with me three times (fascinating since we were never formally a couple) and has had this weird passive aggressive on-again off-again friendship with me ever since. Yeah, I might just avoid her forever now. Especially since Jacque doesn't like her. Too bad, she was a decent friend.

Other friends: good. Surprising level of drama for mid-30-somethings. But otherwise a solid group of geeks and gamers. Oh..I'm pretty much all cut off from any Seattle people by now, which is perfectly fine. (Only even thinking about them now because I discovered old blog posts.) Still some good people there... but meh. Far away. Relationship maintenance is hard. So nah.

The last four years! Lots of treadmills and Switch games and map art and coffee and trail running and Ingress and board games and random geek shit and beer and science and snacks and sex and socks. And hundreds of other normal life things. Yup. Nothing to report, except for everything.