5 years and 16 days since I last posted. Hell, 6+ years since it was a legitimate going concern.
No idea why I haven't written anything since January 1st 2020. There was no conscious decision. No epiphany. At that point I'd been posting regularly for almost 6 years. Then one day I suddenly stopped.
So, what all have the non-existent people who used to read this missed?
I don't remember much about 2019, there obviously wasn't anything too exciting or life changing.
Then there was the 18 month madness of Covid-19. The world was completely locked down and I was more than happy to take part.
Fast forward and the massive weight loss and strength training I'd documented so heavily 6 years prior had completely reversed itself. After so long of doing nothing all the weight was back and I was unhealthier than I'd ever been. Leading to a massive "widow maker" heart attack on July 10th, 2021, that I somehow miraculously survived. That was followed by 3 months of intense cardiac rehab (a fancy way of saying scheduled nurse supervised exercise wearing all sorts of monitors). The weeks following my hospitalization were some of the most calm and peaceful moments of my life. For once all the depression I've suffered through for most of my adult life seemed to be gone. I was happy every single day just to wake up. I wish I could say I'd retained that spirit ever since, but The Black Dog still comes barking, often when I least expect it. All said though, I've lost enough weight since then to say I'm proud of myself (and did it over time, not the completely maniacal way it was achieved before) and haven't smoked a cigarette in almost 4 years.
One of my last posts was about the trip of a lifetime, finally going back to London after 20 years. I'm happy to say in the last 7 years I've been back 3 more times and fall in love with my favorite place on earth more every time. Add in a trip to Rome and I've traveled more since I stopped blogging than I had the 43 years I'd been alive before.
I don't know what I'm going to post here, I just know I finally feel the need to do it again. Maybe it'll be Apple reviews and criticism. Maybe it'll be politics. Maybe it'll be random music videos. I honestly don't know. I'm just happy I kept this place alive in the background so I have a place of my own not dictated by social media companies (or fucking Nazis) to do it.
Onward and upward.