I'm still here.

It has been some time since my last confession.

It's been a while, but sometimes you get busy, ya know?

And a different sort of busy, the sort that left me wanting to escape to a different place. I spent a bit of time playing an old favourite, Civilisation.

I really like to write, consolidate ideas, and share insights in this forum, but it's rare that I have such a gap.

I also miss it.

I always have plenty of unfinished drafts, but I also usually have a few recent experiences that are like an itch waiting to come out.

There are also a few other factors. My laptop is just within warranty and I'm finally getting a line of pink pixels fixed. I'm also gonna wipe Ubuntu off it and go back to Windows.

I feel my OS sojourn was successful in that I realised in a career of learning such as development, some of us need to learn to swim in a pool, not the ocean. Not the best analogy, but close enough.

My workplace is always (usually) Windows, any exploration on my laptop can be within a VM from the comfort of Windows. I've also got accumulated decades worth of keyboard shortcuts, and the muscle memory alone keeps me to the original style keyboard, not the weird ones that Macs use.

And it turns out we're also gearing up to move house, well, start by putting our place on the market. That sounds like fun, right?

You'll find me escaping occasionally, back here, writing with passion about what I find to be an interesting career. That, and reading/listening to stuff about science. There is some amazing stuff going on in this world!