What's Up 3/29/2024 09:39:00 PM

It's been more than a decade since my last entry. A lot of things have happened. I got to travel some more, visited a couple of places that were on top of my priority list, so much that I thought I could live in peace and die in peace once I'd gone there. (What a joke. I'm still living, and I'm getting older and become more obsessed with money instead.)

I've gotten new family members. Technology has been changing rapidly, and virtually everyone has the internet in their pocket now. Google search results have gotten progressively worse, though.

And of course, there was a global pandemic. In late 2019, a mysterious, deadly virus started showing up in the city of Wuhan, China. People dropped dead left and right of lower respiratory tract inflammation. In short, they had trouble breathing and they died. The virus quickly spread to every corner of the world, and in an attempt to control the contagion, governments urged (or downright ordered) people to stay at home. Travel--international travel in particular--was almost impossible as borders were closed. And masks became ubiquitous. (I'm still masking every time I leave home, even now, even when the pandemic is technically over. Because COVID-19 doesn't disappear just because you're willing it to stop infecting people.)

I started swimming regularly. My form is terrible, but hey, at least I'm moving my body and not injuring it. And I walk a lot now, even more than when I was younger.

I don't know if I'm going to start writing regularly here again. The medium of choice for self-expression these days is video--via YouTube and TikTok, which didn't exist in 2013. And it's not like I have anything to say. But let's just see how it goes.