Ed Note: This was written over a week ago, but the basic facts of the US/Israel vs Iran war remain exactly the same.
It's early summer so my garden is humming, most of the summer bloomers are pushing petals out now and I've been spending a lot of time scratching in the dirt and preparing for their arrival.
I've also been working on ruffregistrar.com and that is coming along very nicely, I'm close to launch and getting tiny butterflies because I have real skin in the game. Every second the site runs costs me and it may take a while to get my first paying customers, so until it really launches it has been taking a lot of the rest of my free time. Meanwhile I've been working with one of the co-ops my kids are in to start alpha testing things to make sure they work.
Real work at seekr has also been busy, but fun. I don't want to talk too much about what I work on, but I'm on the platform engineering team which means a lot of my work touches every engineer in the company.
The Knicks are NBA champions! 👀
I'm an extremely lapsed basketball fan, mostly thanks to growing up a fan of the Knicks and the 76ers, I can't be blamed for checking out after the Marbury and Carmelo Anthony eras. I'm happy for them though.
We have all the ingredients we need for an amazing summer, but the political and economic tensions continue to provide a bleak backdrop of storm clouds off in the distance. The US/Israel war with Iran seems all but certain to go on indefinitely in a truly Orwellian fashion where we are always in a ceasefire and "days away" from a peace deal, but we're still attacking them, they are still attacking us, and the Strait of Hormuz is "open", but only if you're friendly with Iran and willing to pay a toll, or you'd rather roll the dice with an American Navy escort.
I've always been a close follower of the news, and never in my life have I ever been more tempted than right now to just tune it all out. But then I remember all of the people who are suffering at the hands of my government, and I realize that the least I can do is not look away.