Tag: #newyorkcity

  • Pretty Much Back

    So… It’s been close to three months that I have been off of the blog, which is a very sad shame on my part.

    I feel compelled to update:

    I had a job, then my wife got a job, and we discovered that it was psychologically damaging our daughter to have both of us working from home, and both of us half-ass trying to help keep up with the kid’s school work. Then I got laid off from my job (thank you, Coronavirus) and I have become the stay at home dad now. I got the kid through her classes, and she has been promoted to go to kindergarten, and I am trying very hard to keep her skills up by working on her reading, writing, and math over the summer. I also quit drinking over the month of June, and did not gain any helpful benefits from doing that, and in fact, I put on more weight. My unemployment claim was denied. People are moving out of New York City left and right, and the town feels like a husk of its former self, and pretty much every day, the world feels like it’s coming to an end, but we are protesting with the hope that up until the end, if we survive, we’ll have a better world to live in.

    Oh, and I don’t have health insurance, and I started a novel, but hey, I bet half of NYC can say the same thing right now.

    How are you?

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  • A Lot Has Happened

    So… I have been away for a month, and that wasn’t my intention. I have had several life changing events happen to me and my family, and it has taken a bit of time for me to get adjusted to my new reality.

    Not that I am trying to be mysterious, but one of the bigger things that has happened is that a decision was made, and the wife, I and the kid have moved to the west coast, and we are Californians.

    Goodbye, New York City.

    Hello, Golden State.

    My wife got a really badass job, and it was just too big of an opportunity for her to pass up. It took a lot of work, but we were able to get all of us out, and now I am learning how to deal with people who are not perpetually angry all the time.

    I’m also learning that I was perpetually angry all the time. And that I have to start learning how to let go of so many things that I thought were important, but really weren’t. I see now that I was stopping myself from enjoying life, and the people I chose to share it with. I can’t fully blame New York for that, I made the decision to be that person. Now I have the opportunity to reinvent myself. In a place where it is sunny, often.

    There are so many things that I need to write about, and now I will add changing locations to the mix.

    Let’s see what happens.