Big Changes, New Directions, New Adventures

I'm reviving the Blog; but before I start adding content here are some highlights: 

• I retired from Roller Derby at the beginning of 2017
  
  
• I matriculated as a part-time student in the Museum Studies program. I currently have 9 courses remaining before earning my BS (/snort)
  
  
• I dipped a toe back into the SCA in 2017 and even went to Pennsic. Full-time work + Part-time school left little time for much in the way of recreation
  
  
• I rescued a stray cat in 2017. He was a stray and seduced me with his Most Handsome Face. His name is Boy-Kitty Jonesy, and he's my constant joy
  
  
  
  
  
• I wound up in the ER in January of 2019. The final result was having my gallbladder removed in June. 
  
  
• 2020 has been a trying year thus far. The COVID-19 epidemic spurred first a Work-From-Home situation as the RIT Campus closed during Spring Break in March; and then I was furloughed on 4/27. I'm scheduled to return to work on 8/3. 
  
  
• Tensions from racial inequality issues and inhumane treatment of Black Men and Women have spawned protests, tearing down or defacing of confederate monuments, the Black Lives Matter movement, and front and center challenges to racial inequality and bias in several aspects of our daily lives.
  
  
• I acquired a used DSLR camera in 2015, and it has grown into a pretty serious hobby. My preferred subjects are nature and wildlife, with an emphasis on Birds. This is my reason for reviving the blog. I'll need to do some housecleaning around here, I think... but at least for the remaining month or so that I'm on furlough, I'll be sharing photos and thoughts on my photography experiences, life in the Age of COVID, life with Jonesy, and anything else that might strike my fancy. 
  
  
• Oh yeah, and I shaved my head. More of a buzz, really... I was diagnosed with Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia in 2015 and was taking medication and using medicated shampoo etc. I decided it was putting off the inevitable so I just shaved it off. Quite liberating, really.