ah, to live in 2024 when one candidate is a businessman, liar, convicted molester, tried to overthrow the government, is twice-impeached, and is an 84 year old. and the other is a an attorney general with conviction about right and wrong and the importance of telling the truth. and it’s a toss-up.

Scary times. i don’t know that my friends here in MA really feel it.

I held an election party to understand the local ballot issues in MA as I’m voting here now. I haven’t really looked into the candidates yet, nor the Medford specific issues.

i went to a corn maze this past weekend with my owlhouse roommates (the place i moved out of). it was a good trip.

the weather was crisp (the 50s), the corn was tall, we got lost, we found the exit, we went to find the bridges, then we rescued a crying kid who had lost their parents. i guess as a kid the corn maze can be quite scary. but from our perspective i found it funny to yell “XYZ, we have your child!” In the end we brought the child to the maze entrance/exit to the surprise of apparently other adults in the group. all was well

i do think about how intensely the young can feel emotions. there is something beautiful and tragic in it. sitting in a church building probably hundreds of years old, with a spectrum from young kids to senior folks, hearing them light candles and tell us what they have been sad or happy about this past week. lurking in the back. i teared up and caught off guard i couldn’t stem it. these sharp, true, vulnerable emotions, alone in my headspace since no one there knew me.

i have dedicated the next while to enjoying tech again. not the applications, not the opportunity cost and the meta of what i could dedicate time to, ignoring the wider world, just the fun of crafting and solving purely technical problems. i’m not quite in the right headspace yet. but moving closer each week