Erika and I are coming off the long winter break, and I’m just appreciating so much that my work gives me a week between christmas & new years, and because NYD landed on a Thursday, they gave us the Friday of Jan 2 off too, so it really felt like a solid week and a half off!

Not in a resolutions kind of way, but I’m eager to become a journaling type, again, and I’ve already got this blog with the world’s best domain name possible, so why not actually try to get there, right here?? Processing with a bit of writing is something I’ve always done and I think my mental health does really well with that. It’s also good practice to just be in the habit of writing.

I’m coming up on year four of doing triathlon, and I think I’m finding an equilibrium of effort and interest. I’ve been taking it slowly, ramping up, and now I can comfortably do an Olympic-distance triathlon at pretty much any point, and a 70.3 with a known, predictable degree of training. That distance is hard! But it’s now gotten to the point where that feels like the kind of effort you (I mean, you know, “I”) can settle into, you’re not sprinting the whole time, you’re finding a sustainably effortful pace at a heartrate that doesn’t blow out. At this time, I don’t have any interest in doing a full distance ironman, but 1-2 “half distance”, the 70.3 and comparable, per year, is a lot of effort but very doable.

Speaking of milestones, I’ll be five years at my job next month and I’m so proud of that! I started in one area, hired to bring ops practices to a very networking-heavy team, and then I moved to another department in 2023, and I could stay here, and/or in this space (Certificate Authority/ies, if that means much of anything to you), for a very long time.

And speaking of another milestone, my wife and I will be celebrating our one year anniversary next month as well 🙂 it honestly just keeps getting better.