Boring personal information

Hi, I'm Gary, and I'll be boring you today. My last post to this blog was five years ago. How's that for un-Twitter behavior?

Ah, 2005. I was a spry 30-something lad with a sparkle in my eye. Now I'm a crusty 40-something who squints in the dark.

At times I get down, wondering if I wasted n years of my life. Then I remind myself it doesn't matter; the past is done, and the future has no limits. My kids smile, and know my military school threats are mostly in good fun.

Some color and music has transpired since my last post.

After an accidental decade apart, I reconnected with my best friend, triggering ascents of many mountains, with many more to come, and interesting times on the streets of Vancouver, Portland, and San Jose Costa Rica. I resumed playing the trumpet after a fifteen year break, triggering my kids' interest in learning instruments. I sat quietly in the presence of Buddhist masters with thousand year lineages, wondering if I should be stoic or laugh out loud. I haven't decided.

Today I shall write this post, play some songs, and try something new before I sleep. Oh, and that whole job thing, that's still happening, too. I switched teams, then I went to Apple, then I came back to Microsoft, then I switched back to my original team. Enough said about that.

And we're back

I wrote stuff on this blog in 2005, then I stopped and deleted everything. Now I'm back. Do people still read blogs, or have their attention spans, like mine, been reduced to