Phew, it's been a month! As mentioned in my last post, my job with NEON has officially ended as of the 20th. I'm also still “moving,” in the sense that I'm still cleaning up my old place and transferring things over to the new one. Moving while simultaneously working a physically-demanding job has been…a lot! But with the free time on my hands this week I've been able to get a significant amount of work done at the old place, and I'm on track to be completely done and moved out by the end of the month.
So yes, this'll be another short post, as my brain is still a bit frazzled by the thousand-and-one things that all need to get done between moving out and moving in. I've got some projects I managed to squeeze out among everything else the past few weeks which I plan to show off soon, once things have calmed down some more.
In all the hustle and bustle I haven't had much time yet to reflect on the end of my time with NEON. It's had its ups (great people, interesting work) and downs (rain!), but it's definitely strange not heading up Mauna Loa this week. I'll have a retrospective on this job when my thoughts have settled a bit more and I've had some time to recover from the previous two hectic months. By my count this is the eighth job that's come to an end for me, so, while it's never easy, it's something I'm (unfortunately) quite familiar with by now. Thankfully none of my coworkers are planning to move off-island (something else I'm familiar with from astronomy jobs ending), so as a band of fire-forged-friends we're able to keep in touch outside of work.
As per usual, I've amassed several project ideas over the past few months which I've been itching to work on. I'll still be somewhat busy in December organizing the new place and preparing for my family to visit in January, but I should finally have some time to pursue some new avenues. I've found myself interested in checking out Typst, a sort of re-imagining of \(\LaTeX\) from the ground up. I've also recently been thinking about getting into woodworking. The new house has a space that looks like it was used for that purpose, and for various reasons (I needed a lawnmower, and there were some amazing Black Friday sales on) I now own several power tools for the first time in my life. We'll see where that goes, but I'm excited. A hui hou!
