How odd...
LiveJournal just told me that my journal is 19 years old, yet the earliest entry was in 2001... silly thing
I just haven't really posted in a few years.
Still having overuse issues. Still gaming too much. Actually started a YouTube channel for Deep Rock Galactic, and that actually contributed to even more overuse issues. Lol.
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Indeed!
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Fantastic to hear that Jet's now working on his PhD!
Do take care of yourself.
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I'm not really here at all, but just wanted to say gosh! and if you make your way over to Bluesky, say hi (LMK if you need an invite!)
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oh, hey! Thanks! I'm mostly on Facebook, of all things. I'll peer at Bluesky, but I don't know how much I even can post... good to know you have a place, tho.
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and yesterday Bluesky went open so you don't need an invite any more and lots more folks I know are showing up!
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Well then. I'm on, but I don't know how much I'll be following. We'll see!!
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Holy cats! Jet's going for a PhD? What's he working on?
Also, if your posts are supposed to autocopy to Dreamwidth, this one didn't. (I noticed an email notification from LJ, which is how I'm here.)
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My Dreamwidth posts here, normally. I didn't post this one on Dreamwidth as it didn't make sense, and that mirrors my Blogger. XD It's interesting how the LJ notifications still get more traffic than Dreamwidth does.
Jet's doing biomedical engineering, and optics for optical imaging (mostly lasers on retinal topology at the moment, but other applications as he actually does his "real" research). Intriguing stuff, and I'm realizing just how far things have gotten in the time I've been away. I'm happy and amazed at how quickly things progress at the actual front line of research.
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Just popped by due to a notification from Dreamwidth in my email, haven't been writing in years and might not ever go back to it, but I read a few of your posts from 2021 and wanted to tell you how sorry I am for your loss of Isabel. Grief is different for everyone but it seems always that there are times it hits like a tsunami and other times it recedes as life goes on with new challenges and new griefs.
As for myself, this year has been like no other year in my life, as I stepped back from a nearly lifelong primary career as a healthcare provider last summer to pursue a new career, only to find that the rug was being jerked out from under my feet as the jobsite for my second job/career shut down in January. So I've had to process a different type of grief and am still unemployed and wondering what I should do next. During this time my beloved FIL passed away, although I still have my MIL but she got Covid in July and hasn't been the same since. My in-laws have been for decades the family I didn't have. My family of origin is out ( ... )
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That's a lot!!! So sorry that your career changes didn't work out the way you wanted them too. And, yes, I'm more active on Dreamwidth now than here. And grief takes so much energy. I am so sorry for your losses.
It's amazing to have found family, but it's all the more obvious when we lose that chosen family, too. I was so hurt when I lost my MIL and my FIL when that happened. It's amazing. I'm having to deal with my real parents these days, and as much as I haven't *liked* them for a while, I'm grateful that I've reestablished my relationship with them and gotten to know them in their mellower old age. My husband and I have been helping them through a lot of the rougher patches of their late life, and I've gotten to really like my father again. Which was good for me. It was so odd to understand that even though I have the roughest relationship with my mother, I still grieve her losses of self and ability that age brings.
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