Poll: How are you doing currently?

Mostly good

1. Son graduated High School and was excepted at college

A bit sad

1. 19 families will not be able to watch their children do the same. 2. Americans cannot seem too differentiate between a right to own a gun and the right to own a gun that can commit mass murder.

one must imagine sysiphus happy.

Past few months were going really well, until Monday I would have answered “very good”. This week went downhill very quickly. So, currently quite bad and taking time off to take care of myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Take care of your mental health folks!

I voted kind of okay. Feeling somewhat trapped in basic loop, which is particularly annoying considering how it's no longer winter and nice outside.

Job's doing pretty well, pays pretty well for my geographic region (nowhere close to SV wages though), main client is pretty good and the project should have high impact and I'm doing significant work on it, but it's not in a field that particularly interests me.

In my spare time I'm helping a non-profit as kind of a mentor for junior engineers as well as a little dev work here and there. Sometimes I feel guilty about not putting more time and effort into it than I do.

Also trying to work on my own video game projects in my spare time as well, but finding the energy and motivation for it has been pretty low lately.

But it really just feels like my life revolves around three C's: coding, cleaning, and cooking. And taking the dogs on walks a 3-4 times a week. Haven't done a whole lot social lately, most of my friends have kind of drifted a bit since the pandemic. Wanting to go out in nature more but it feels like I need most of that time to make any progress on projects.

And I want to go on trips but they've gotten so expensive and my wife has very limited PTO this year anyway, so we only have one significant trip planned much later in the year and even that is a compromise from what we originally planned (now only driving one state away for a week, instead of go halfway across the country to see a couple national parks for two weeks).

But hey, could be a lot worse. And financially we're a lot better off than most Americans, especially right now.

When student loan payments start kicking in again in September that's going to hurt, though. Not for me, mine are paid off, but my wife has some pretty large ones. She's been paying them down some during this time, but not with as large of payments as she'll need to when they start up again (it's a little over half a mortgage payment every month).

They are randomized