I did some canning this weekend for the first time. Just tomatoes and pickles, but it was fun nonetheless. My garden has been producing a lot of cucumbers because my partner had a communication mix up we both planted them. At least I really like pickles and it was fun to control what went in them. I'm hoping for very vinegary with strong herb presence.

Spending today catching up on my online backlog. With stress high this year, even just checking my email has become a chore. Hoping to get in front of it for once so I can give myself permission to work on some personal projects like my website and some of my retro technology.

Speaking of, I have decided its not really worth it to hunt down original software for systems at this point. All four of the ones I have can be connected with SD cards or direct downloads. That will get me to a usable state much faster. It also creates an avenue to self fund my little hobby by selling the drives and software I do have at this point. This will make things easier for potentially packing everything up in a year.

Janna and I are still talking about hitting the road, but I am starting to think she'd rather do it alone because shes not really on board with me just working odd jobs to cover expenses. Time will tell.