Life Springs Anew From The Rot

Okay I promise I won't keep stretching the rot analogy in my headlines after this. I'm just proud that I'm still writing.

A little over two months ago I broke my leg. It was during a late ice storm and I was trying to take the trash out. I slipped and it full on felt like my leg bent underneath me. There's also a good 100 yards between the house and where the street is, so I had to limp back. Our dog, Callisto the cute Corgi, likes to come out with me to take out the trash and she just had this look of impotent concern as I slowly hopped towards the house. She's a good dog.

I mention this because I finally got the clean bill of health from the doc today. There's still a slight fracture that hasn't fully healed on the leg bone but the ankle is fully okay now. He had some concern early on that we might have had to do surgery. Very grateful that it never came to that. For the first two weeks I had to just sit in one place and heal. If that didn't mean leaving the 5yo twins to my poor spouse to handle all by herself, it actually would have been pleasant.

I'm also making progress on the Appalachia Cinema Preservation Society! Among which was an official logo commissioned by a designer. I contacted them via Fiverr and was completely wowed by how quickly they worked and gave us what feels like the perfect logo. If you're ever in the market for a logo - hunt down Fairy Solutions.



I love this logo so much. Every time I look at it I found something else that makes me smile.

I'm making progress with the project as a whole and a lot of work on the website. Hoping to have some big stuff to announce there soon.

I'm also tinkering with the idea of working on a personal site again. I just bought a pretty dumb url that I'm looking forward to bringing to life. Between the ACPS website and thinking of a personal website, I'm just kind of surprised that I've had a resurgent passion in coding again. I haven't been this excited to build something in a while. It's been rough being in this industry because more and more I just feel the question of "are we the baddies?" just has a louder and louder affirmative answer. I want an escape hatch from that where I feel I'm doing good and not just making evil rich men richer.

Right now ACPS is running through Github and Heroku which isn't the best. For my personal site, I want to self-host and even go the extra mile and have it so that whatever server I have it running on is solar powered. I want to eventually get ACPS there too. I feel an energy to fight back against the inevitability that Evil feels in my industry.

Anyways, thanks for reading. Keep fighting the good fight. Just living to see tomorrow is gonna piss some of the bad guys off so you're doing great. 💚

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