It Has Been a Time

Dear Readers,

It has been a time.

I got to go the final XOXO. It felt like a found family reunion — for me, and for many folks who had attended before this year. I got to see Open Mike Eagle sing “Birdhouse in Your Soul (<–video link) at our very own karaoke. I saw both Never Post and Annie from Depths of Wikipedia bring the house down during a glorious night of performances.

And I did that after battling COVID — it didn’t hit me all that hard, physically. Mentally? I was, of course, a wreck. I took my antivirals to hopefully ease the long term pain, and the doctor cleared me for the conference.

I’ve also had some really exciting, promising interviews…and one pretty rough one. 😂 I’ve hit some lows a bit, again, but also bounced back. I’ve gotten incredibly excited about different web projects, heard about (and hell yeah-ed about) new css that’s coming soon, and considered how to create my own css crimes. And I’ve also looked around and gone, “wait, it’s been almost two months since I was fired up and working on my new site using eleventy?!?!?”

Anyway, because most folks likely won’t see this yet, here’s a logo I built in CSS for a meetup that doesn’t exist / I haven’t started yet:

See the Pen tacoma-logo-rubik by Jim Withington (@jwithington) on CodePen.

It’s a time of highs and lows, y’all. 🎢