Wow Time Flies#

Yeah, just like most of my journaling and writing attempts, I forgot about this for a while. Whatever, it happens don’t @ me.

Whats been happening?#

A lot! Like, a lot a lot.

Our summer was jam packed, here is some of the top events:

Kim and I got engaged! News doesn’t get much better than that. I couldn’t be more excited to get married to such a wonderful woman.
Two of my best friends got married. I was the best man for one and a groomsman for the other.
We went on a wonderful vacation with my family to Lake Placid (where event #1 happened)
We saw Linkin Park on their From Zero tour and My Chemical Romance on their Black Parade reunion tour
I completed the New Hampshire Mammoth March - a one day 20 mile hike
LAN Party 2026 happened! It was a great time - there was a lot more RTS games in the rotation this year which was a huge plus to me.

I will post more details and picture of all of these soon and link it here.

An engagement ring box made of canary wood and sapele
A cutting board as a wedding gift made of cherry and sapele
A cutting board for us made of walnut, sapele, and cherry
A set of 4 charcuterie boards as bridesmaids gifts made of black limba
A shot serving board as a gift for the host of the LAN party made of black limba
A DM screen made of old recovered red oak
A catchall tray made of black limba and purpleheart
A wallet that I hand stitched
A box made of recovered red oak
A box made of cherry and walnut for my desk
A sign for my shop made from walnut ply

I have been getting m4ore into physical media - the concept of ownership has been top of mind for me. I have been buying more blu rays and am trying to start collecting CDs.