This year was a year of slowly getting back to my normal nomadic habits after a couple of years of staying put.
I spent a lot of time at the lake house, including preparing for the demolition of the old house.
At the end of the summer I spent 3 weeks in Milwaukee visiting Amanda and Ben and Rowan. I also got to meet a friend and coworker, Todd, in person for the first time.
Towards the end of the year I met someone new.
My snowy back yard.
Denali keeping an eye out for birds.
Sara and Price at the lake.
Sara and John at the lake.
Dad and Denali watching a sunset.
Good time at the river.
Sunset during SBFC week.
The annual meeting of the Super Best Friends Club. This would be the last summer we cram into the old house!
Denali hoping a boat will pick him up and take him on a ride.
Dad and Mom at the lake.
Dad and the kids.
Granny passed away this summer. I was lucky to have spent a lot of time with her over the last few years. She loved being at the lake, watching a sunset on the dock.
My sunny back yard.
Lupini in action.
Lupini
Fourth of July fireworks.
Manhattan skyline from Greenpoint.
Before my second haircut since I started growing my hair out in November of 2021.
Milky Way over the lake.
The old lake house right before it was bulldozed to make room for the new house to be built.
The original cabin (the shorter structure on the right) was built in the 1940s by my great-grandparents. It was a single room that was later split up into 4 bedrooms.
The structure on the left was built around 1990 and contained a combination kitchen + dining room + living room, plus a bathroom.
I have many memories in this house and I’m excited for all the memories I’ll make in the new house.
This is my friend Todd. He and I work together but we live in different places. This was the first time we met in person after a year of Google Meet being our only source of interaction. We walked around the waterfront in Milwaukee, where I was visiting the Smiths for a few weeks.
Down the Hudson River.
Price and Sydney visited me in NYC for my birthday. This was taken on Governor’s Island.
More from Price and Sydney’s trip to NYC for my birthday. We were at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
The start of something new.
This year I got really into making music. I was tired of having to plug and unplug equipment every time I wanted to play. This is a patch bay, which cleanly connects all of my gear’s inputs and outputs in one place (the back of the patch bay) so that I can sit down and play with as little friction as possible. Additionally I can route signals from one piece of equipment for another to, for instance, add effects (the front of the patch bay). The patch bay is mounted in a rack case that sits on my desk so it’s easily accessible.
Me during Autumn.