Yesterday I had burgers and fries with these two gentlemen:
Gregor and Joe were kind enough to head to my neck of the woods for a mid-week break and I enjoyed it immensely. We talked for well over two hours and covered all kinds of ground with candor and humor.
Careers, writing, online origin stories, mid-life hurdles and setbacks… it was all fair game. It was a refreshing and much-needed safety valve.
We ended on an interesting note that I’d like to explore more in-depth in a future post: the different journeys we each took until we ended up getting involved in the Homebrew Website Club, a friendly social group that meets about every two weeks over zoom to encourage each other with our personal projects.
In fact we just met tonight and it was as interesting and invigorating as ever. It’s my regular dose of the “I found my tribe” feeling that fueled so much of my early years on the web.
I say future because — oof — I am so beat today and going to crash out as soon as I hit publish on this.
Just Keep Swimming
This week’s post is a short one just to keep the weekly cadence going. I remember these ebbs and flows from the last time I did a writing challenge.
Sometimes everything just flows like it did last week, where I had the bare bones captured about 5 days early. I even had enough time to ask for feedback on an early draft. I added and swapped out the photos, layout, captions and generally just twiddled around with getting everything just right.
And then there’s nights like tonight, where life gets in the way and is draining on every level. It’s a win just pop something up.
I’ll take the base hit this time, it’s cool. As Joe likes to say: Onward