Last Octo­ber, I made a deci­sion to tem­porar­ily close Ret­ro­specti­cus, with the orig­i­nal inten­tion being to clear up some time and energy that I des­per­ately felt I needed to focus else­where. At the time, I didn't exactly real­ize how pre­cious that time and energy would become, but I'm glad that I made the decision.

In the span of three months, I designed and pro­grammed an entirely new online store, I also co-programmed and directed a film fes­ti­val, nego­ti­ated a job trans­fer, and phys­i­cally re-located my apartment.

Yeah, the last few months have been busy.

And now that I have a bit of time for myself, it feels appro­pri­ate to bring Retro back. There are a lot of changes under the hood, but that's a dis­cus­sion for another time, I think. In the mean time, much upon much has hap­pened in the last sev­eral months and if I can pos­si­bly remem­ber them all, I'll try to include them here in some form.

When I upgraded Word­Press the other day, I logged in and real­ized that I had a pend­ing entry — the last of my dragon*con 2004 recaps. Look­ing at what I wrote months ago just this evening, I real­ized that while what was writ­ten hap­pened, the con­tents of that entry didn't even begin to doc­u­ment the impor­tant things: the con­ver­sa­tions had, the lessons learned, the alco­hol con­sumed. So I scrapped that entry, as I'm sure the tale will be told at some point when I'm actu­ally ready to tell it. But like I said, in the interim, there's plenty more to talk about.

I missed my lit­tle cor­ner of the web. It looks (almost) just like I left it.

Time for some Spring clean­ing, bitches.