Life's been life on my end of things.
I somehow managed to come down with Shingles back in the last week of May and was ill for the entire month of June. It took another two months to recover from the madness and the nerve it spread through still aches semi-frequently.
Besides being painful it was also expensive, socialized medicine can't happen fast enough in the US.
Past that, I ended up having to go down south for my grandmother's funeral, although the event sequencing was kind of awkward. We ended up there for almost three weeks before she passed. While kind of sad, overall it ended up being like a long family reunion and I got to touch base with a bunch of extended kin on good terms. (Probably the last time that will happen.)
On the upside of things, my parents closed on some property and will be building a house in a much better town. And by much better town, I mean the new house will have Gigabit fiber, the roads don't have potholes, the town isn't 90% dependent on an army base for its income, and they don't leave half the city streetlights off at night to save money. (Did I mention they're installing Gigabit fiber?)
I also got my Project Fi Phone and SIM card yesterday, so I'm trying that out. Seems pretty nifty so far, and I'm finding I have signal in some black holes where Sprint said "no service for j00" previously.
I can't remember if I mentioned before I got sick or not, I have a 3D printer now! Thing is fun, but teaching myself Sketchup/Blender to build models for printing is a bit time consuming.
Other than that, kind of plodding along. Computer business will be closed when we build the house and move next year, and in anticipation of that I'm stealing time here and there to work on projects.