I started this blog thinking it would help me balance life as a worker in tech and life as an artist. For the most part I’ve failed to do that so far. I stopped writing. I made excuses and prioritized my job. It became difficult to occupy two mindsets — productive worker and critic of work — at the same time. Ultimately, only one of them supported my survival. To be alive today, in America, has a cost. It’s funny that we call it freedom. Live free or die? Was that ever the case? Because the America I live in ain’t free. So I focused my attention on the areas that paid, and I didn’t have the time to write here. But I didn’t miss anything, and maybe I’ll get more time this year to sort through it all.