I Want to Be Your Tugboat Captain

I felt like writing, and I remembered, there is Tugboat Captain's Log.

Life goes on. It's a silly phrase, but it certainly captures a certain mood. I am working quite hard these days, and it's not clear to me whether I am making progress on things I need to do or I am scrambling to stay where I am. Lately, it feels like the latter. I feel like I don't have the resources to make progress right now, except slowly. Slow works in good times, when there is a good amount of time, but not these days, so it's tread-water time.

I'm being so abstract. It comes from not wanting to reveal who I am.

Aside from business, life is all right. There is just too much stuff happening now to make much sense. None of it is terrible, not personally. Nationally, internationally, universally, I feel like we are heading in a fucked direction, but personally? Life is not bad at all, despite everything I said in that first paragraph, and almost all of that has to do with my job. I enjoy the return of spring. I enjoy running. Coffee still tastes great. I have been listening to music I like, and still feel life flow through and around me in a pleasant way.

I miss the salad days of the blog, though. I hope you guys return. Or not. It's fine, really, us putting out these isolated statements periodically.

Life can be better, and it often is. I remain hopeful.