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Sorry for the hiatus. Life has been crazy, and I guess I haven't had too much to say, though that's more of a reflection of my own state of mind than it is anything else.

Life goes on in the direction it did when I left you, my faithful readers. I'm still living in UT, working for the audiovisual department of the LDS church. I'm the primary editor for a rather large online video series project dedicated to educating folks to more easily trace their ancestors. It's a sweet gig, and I'm grateful for the work. I get recompensed pretty well, and I'm gaining good experience. Stability has finally come into my life, and it's a great change. I live only half a mile from work, and I either long board or drive, depending on how healed I am from the latest soccer game. (These happen at least weekly, and I'm surprised how quickly I'm improving, considering the last time I played was probably twenty years before.)

Utah has been good to me, for sure. I've really been enjoying the social environment, totally opposite of my expectations. I guess not being formally enrolled in school and having employment and independence makes a real difference in the way I view my world.

Another development I have relished is when I bought my 89 Jeep Wrangler. I love it, despite the atrocious gas mileage.

I've also been further expanding my creative collaborative process by developing a story of mine with a screenwriter and character development artists. And it's coming along. There's a learning curve, but I'm satisfied at what we've accomplished thus far.

Currently I'm on a trip to southern California with a friend of mine who needed to renew his passport. He's a Turkish national, and the closest consulate to Provo is in Los Angeles. So we stopped in on friends in southern UT, as well as where I lived most recently in San Bernardino county on the mountain. Today we're headed down to San Diego to attend the church where my buddy attended when he first came to the United States a couple years ago.

I see things going on about the same for now. I have work scheduled to continue until at least next July. I have been especially blessed in the amount of predictability and steadiness I've been given in my work, even within the office I work in. (I am amazed, considering the degree of instability that seems to have imbued every aspect of my life up until now.) I do believe that if you follow in the path you feel is laid for you, do your best, and remain patient, things work out, and you eventually get what you most desire. My life at this point seems to be a partial validation of that idea. And I believe the days and years ahead will further complete this otherwise optimistic view of the world.