April 19th, 2025

I complained recently that I have too many subscriptions, and too many blogging platforms. I am starting the process of moving my main blog here to micro.blog. I am close to the end of my allotted funds on Pikapods and not interested in paying for multiple services anymore.

If I’m being honest I am also struggling with the why of all of this so reducing the amount of services I use (and I’ve paid for and have been trying to find a use for) will hopefully make things a bit clearer. It certainly will reduce the cognitive load of thinking about them constantly.

One more month until my oldest graduates from college. She’s moving back home for a bit until her job starts so we’re preparing for that long trip out to New York City and the detour to Champaign, Illinois to pick up my son who is finishing up his first year of college. The house, which my wife and I have gotten used to having to ourselves again, will be much busier over the summer.

We’re at the midway point of dealing with my Mom’s things after she had to move to a long term care facility. Her house is about to go on the market and I will be very relieved when that burden is off my shoulders. It’s been decades of worry that will be over soon. Needless to say I will be happy when it’s over.

Other than that life goes on. Work is work and I am thankful to have a job. Things are getting a bit weird as we have to ride out the current state of affairs in the United States. Trump’s obsession over tariffs and his constant waffling certainly aren’t making things easier but at the moment business seems stable. I hope that remains to be the case. My 401k? Well, I’m afraid to look. There is nothing I can do about that anyway that I haven’t done already.