Aristotelian Logic

No grand tragedy, no abrupt change in perspective. My journal has been silent for a while for a pair of reasons, one mundane and one rooted in sequential ordering.

The mundane reason is honestly that I have been busy. Little kid is big enough to try walking, and needs a watchful eye to keep out of trouble. Big kid needs an even more watchful eye, because mobile and clever. Unfortunately, with The Pandemic going on, big kid's preschool was closed for a few months - which has resulted in no small amount of cabin fever.

Also there's a bit of a pandemic going on. I've been working from home since sometime in March, and it's mostly gone well - some frustrations but ones rooted mostly in what I'm working on, not any of the expected reasons. Things have otherwise gone about as well as they can on that front - the immediate family has avoided illness so far, and our province managed to shut everything down quickly enough that we've hit the nice quiet period. What will come next, one wonders.

As for sequential ordering - that one's a little harder to discuss. A couple of friends-of-the-family passed away last fall, one almost immediately after the other. They were mentors to me growing up, and I decided that I should write something of a eulogy here. So in my head, that had become the 'next' post I was going to write.

And then...I didn't. I still want to, but I haven't yet. It's a heavy subject, and part of me feels that this isn't the time or place - but it's important.

So maybe I'll get that written next. Or maybe I won't. A matter for another night.

In brief: At my goal weight, I'm working on a Ph.D in CS, and I've been married for 31 hours as of this post. Life is good.

Pictures of at least one of these things to follow.