Work has been rather hectic lately, leading me to not have a ton of time for personal projects. I have, however, made a lot of progress of finding the balance that I need to be able to resume those projects. I have spent a lot of Labor Day weekend getting some relaxation, seeing some family, and optimizing my home workstation to make it easier to work from. Having already done that with my in-office set up for work and my work-from-home part of the workstation, I am pretty much ready to move forward with a lot of projects.

One of those projects is going to involve getting back into coding and game development. I am starting small with a few pet projects including the development of a mod for the Steam game Feebay where I will have some custom-made Puyo Puyo card sets for use in the game.

Recently, I have been moderating for a game called Lowmoor: An Adventurer's Chronicle where I have also been having a lot of fun. The game is a breath of fresh air. The developer, Bogu, is very serious about his current projects and I love to see someone that loves making games actually do it and follow through with it. It inspires me to continue on my own path as well.

I've decided I am likely going to completely redo this website either today or tomorrow as this software doesn't quite have the exact feature-set I need, but I am finishing up a few other things today to be able to set up the right stuff for a long-term blog. I am also investigating some self-hosted project management and time management tools to keep myself on track.

Finally managed to get my new website up and running! Got it set up just right, and have it self-hosted in my own environment. Will work on the backup strategy here shortly. Just glad to finally have this done.