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That’s what I’m going to call this (short, I hope) chapter in my life.

I quit my job. I don’t have another one waiting. But I’m pretty sure I’m going to get hired by one specific place, and failing that, there are plenty of other opportunities. I’m going to be fine.

In the meantime, I’ve got all this time and am almost surprised to say, I’m doing a lot of what I wish I would do with spare time: learning, experimenting, gaining experience, even reading.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I noticed that who I am has fairly suddenly transformed into a person I thought I would never be: the one who wakes up early, cooks for himself and eats well, goes to the gym, and does productive things in his spare time. The laziness seems to have left me. (Maybe I’m having a manic episode? Heaven forbid.)

I need a page with my recording portfolio on it. This has been on my to-to list for years and I’m going to start on it. Right now.

Forgnot has dumped some pretty serious ideas into my brain, and made me realize how many of my mental muscles have atrophied in the last couple of years. What if, he suggests, my depression isn’t all chemical, but there’s something I can get to the bottom of, and maybe do something about?

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I have it that I don’t have anything to teach anyone in terms of life. I can help you tune your web server, or set it up for better performance; I can teach you some music theory and help you write better songs; I can teach you some things about sound engineering, recording, woodworking . . . I can tell you all about being a gay Mormon–I spent a long time and got really, really good at it! Look how useful that is.

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I was going through my archives today and found an unlabeled sql dump from 2007. Lo and behold, this is the database dump that I made of my old Mediawiki site, hoping to transfer it from one host to another. Alas, I had no idea what I was doing, and after failing to migrate the site, I assumed the data was lost forever.

So here’s this file now, and it contains all this material that I wrote during the Very Long, Dark, Confusing part of my life that I’m now glad is over, and I’m wondering if I even want to bother reading it. There’s not much material there, and it’s so, so Mormon-centric. I just, I don’t even.

Nah, I’m just going to bzip2 it and leave it there for posterity. It’s 562 KB compressed. Who cares.