The last few days were better than the couple of weeks which came before. Visiting friends from afar and closer to home, exchanging presents (at long last!), walking on damp but safe sidewalks, enjoying the benefits of public transportation once more, and getting out of the house combined to give me a somewhat more cheerful outlook on life. It wouldn’t have taken much to improve on my headspace from a week ago, of course.

On the downside, it looks like our company’s insurance rates are going up again and I’ll be paying $100 more per month. Say goodbye to anything resembling a discretionary budget, folks! Oh well. I was enjoying life too much as it was, right?

On the upside, I put the new domain into place over at the newly-renamed but otherwise-unchanged anime forum. One of these days, perhaps, I’ll be able to afford some sort of advertising to bring in new faces…