// misc, personal
  • The spark of creativity has fizzled. Which is fine, as I've come to accept that it comes and goes.
  • It does leave several projects I had in progress or wanted to work on up in the air.
  • These included a new backend for this site (considering going to Statamic, and a completely new website dedicated to electronic music.
  • Instead of productive creativity, my brain is currently absorbed by slither.io. Talk about a fruitless endeavor. It is fun though, and not every moment needs to be filled with being creative.
  • These are lessons I've only really come to understand here in my mid 50s.
  • Mid 50s. Fuck I'm old.
  • In other news, the wife and I spent three nights out last week. For two people who tend to stay within their comfort zone, this was pretty amazing.
  • We went downtown to see Sarah and meet her boyfriend. We had dinner at Georgia Brown's. In a word: divine.
  • That was Monday. Tuesday, the Mrs. and I were back in DC to see the Nationals lose to the Rockies. Had a really good time and given how easy it is to get downtown now, we've decided we need to try to get to at least one more game before the season ends.
  • Wednesday we went to a brewery for their "One-hit Wonders" music trivia. Again, great time, and gave me ideas for my own music trivia, which was on...
  • Sunday, I hosted music trivia for the wine club at the winery the Mrs. works at on weekends. It was the first time I've done music-related trivia (I host trivia in a non-music format twice a month there), and it went over like gangbusters. From the patrons to the staff, I had nothing but compliments about what a good time they had and even praised my music selection. I'm very much looking forward to doing more music trivia type events.
  • This probably should've been a regular blog posting and not a list, but oh well.