It's been tough to get back into the swing of things. While I had started out at a decent pace, today brought a level of dread and senselessness as I slipped into a fit of droning white-noise madness before coming into work.

Thankfully I snapped out of it as I remembered one of my many pieces of life-tips that I try to stick with, "You can't worry about the things that are out of your control"-- or some such thing.

I dragged myself out of bed, already late for work, and got ready for the days events. I wasn't able to make my morning medication (espresso), but packed a solid lunch, fed the animals, gave my wife a big hug and a kiss and went on my way.

Balance is hard to find and I'm still picking through the mud slide of brain activity, looking for surviving goals and objectives to place within my landscape of "so busy".

Reconnecting with design, code, art, and music is a big deal for me. I'm doing well enough as I try to make time for it, but I must be careful to not become completely obsessed with things. I've been down that road before, and the tunnel vision puts a major strain on every other aspect of my life. If I'm not careful, I will be oh-so-close to a breaking point on many fronts and something will certainly break away.

On the music front, I've been on overdrive as I get myself deeper into trip-hop and downtempo beats. It's great to be back, but that means I'm squeezing myself out of other open projects. I have some pretty big decisions to make on how to present older works along side my desire to release new materials this fall.

I suspect I'm being entirely too picky about it. I sure as shit need to get the old stuff out there, if anything to be a curated piece of my history as an artist.