My boat has no rudder or steering, but the motor is thrumming along just fine, and I'm skipping across the water at a pretty good clip towards nothing in particular with almost constant directional changes as the waves and breezes bump the prow of the boat around to the left and right. It's all fine and good out here where the nearest land is beyond the horizon, but there's always the chance of a low-lying shoal just under the waves, or a breaching whale, or surfacing nuclear sub to consider as possible sudden impediments in my directionless journey.

Let's hope they don't appear.

Music

I'm making music with two different collaborations, right now. Rarely/never in the same room; mostly just sharing files over the internet with far-flung friends. It has spurred my entirely dormant creative itch, and it's nice to feel that again...

Travel

Heading to San Diego in a week for the kickoff of the Major League Rugby 2020 season. It's a rematch of the Championship we won last year. Got more than 100 local fans going together, staying together in the hotel, and sitting together at the game and the after party.

Then going to the UK in March for two weeks, with the brother and his wife. Get to see the Wales v Scotland rugby match in Cardiff while we are there.

Then going to Utah for a weekend to see the Seawolves play the Utah Warriors.

Then going to Washington D.C. to visit my Aunt and Uncle.

And that doesn't even get us to June.

I somehow have the feeling I should be embarrassed about traveling. Like it's excessive or ostentatious or something. But the fact is that my wife and I have good jobs, no kids, few expenses, and our time is our own to spend doing what we want to do. And we are having a great time having adventures with each other! We are 50, healthy, and able to travel comfortably and semi-frequently. I need to be OK with that, and proud of it, rather than ashamed about it, and not talking about our adventures.

(FUCK, it was hard to write that!)

Hubski

I LOVE the influx of text posts here on Hubski this last week! People talking about their thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Just putting it out there and trusting us to "be hubski" with them. It's a nice change from the regular "here's another dumb article about the world falling apart" content that has been so common here recently. (Honestly, because the world IS dumb and falling apart, but no more or less than it always has been...)

Love y'all.