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title: "Where did the time go?"
date: "2024-11-11"
tags:
  - "Excuses"
---

Whoa - where the hell did all the time go?!  I knew in the back of my mind that I was being a huge slacker by not updating in a while, but almost 5 years?  That's crazy!  My initial reaction was that the timestamp of my last post had gotten screwed up somehow, but the details of what I wrote proves that the time is right.

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I'll fill in more details in upcoming posts but some highlights of the last 5 years:

- Continued working on my software and hardware projects
- Starting playing around with 3D printing
- Took a fairly intensive master's degree program in software engineering
- Cataract surgery for my right eye (my left was April 2018 which I never wrote about)
- Made it through all the craziness of 2020 and beyond

I'm sure there are other things, but they're not coming to mind right now - I'll bring them up if I think of them later.

If you've been here before you might notice that this site looks completely different now.  I had been using WordPress because I wanted something easy - I had a feeling that if I picked something that needed some coding I'd end up getting lost in all of that rather that writing, but with dispute between WordPress and WP Engine (and some stuff done by Mullenweg that I think is pretty shady) I decided it was time to bail on it completely.  The site has switched to Eleventy, and I've done some minimal tweaking to make it look the way I want for now.  I'm sure I'll end up making some adjustments as I go, but I need to just make the switch and go with it.
