Still all over the place, but a little notice that you should be watching my Macintosh Garden temp site if you want to see new work from me! I'll still be working on cammy.somnol content and drawings (mood permitting), but that's been the thing I've been spending the most time on lately. I just got the majority of my old Neocities album reviews ported over and rewritten and sorted by artist to be much nicer to browse, and new ones are starting to trickle out. I've also collected a ton of my old longform writing from Letters or the Scratchpad or wherever else, all the stuff I still like, for your browsing pleasure.
This stuff will all get moved to mari.somnol when it comes time to redo that site. As I've said, I don't want to do this stuff on mari.somnol right away so I don't have to worry about design or making it nice and official just yet. It's all been very freeing, though it's certainly come with the realization of just how silly, overblown, and ridiculous I can be with hindsight. I was already kinda behind before the lockdowns happened, and then the world shut everything down for basically nothing and I just retreated online and really started writing very authoritatively about philosophy and the future as a defensive mechanism since I had no fucking clue what would happen next.
Thankfully, things are back to normal, and I feel a lot more like myself than I have in many, many years, especially since the trip. I'm glad I came out of it as well as I did--it just also means there's a paper trail of delirious essays from some guy on the internet with no life experience and no clue what he's talking about, and I had to read it again to collect material for this site. Mildly embarrassing, but I know I'll find it charming and want to read it again someday, so it stays up. I'm also working on gaining that life experience, so no one can fault me there either.
Speaking of that though--I got my learner's permit again yesterday! I had one back in February 2020, then three years came and went and it expired. Thankfully, I nailed the knowledge portion of the test first try this time, so I'm really a stone's throw and a lot of practice away from having a real license and being one less step away from coming and going freely. Once I have a car, I can finally sell off the old Rediscovering discard pile and a ton of vinyl I no longer want to start making space for stuff I do want, I can go film rambling YouTube videos (2024, marf's Woods, we're making this happen), I can go get my ham license, all that stuff I've been saying I'll do for years.
