It's been a long road back to daily routines and normalcy in general. Heavy mental and emotional loads, and that finicky heated moment where you're almost but not quite out of the woods. Still getting situated after my company was bought out. They kept me and I got a bump, but it's very different from what I'm used to.

Kind of lucky that my wife hasn't started her new job yet, she took the kiddo to the Nothe Fort in Weymouth four times last week. He seems really fond of WWII-era stuff.

Now that we have a projector that's worth a damn, I've gotten back into Armored Core 6. Still stuck on the same level as before (CEL 240), but I'm showing some improvement. Playing this in 4K at 120" is almost unbearably immersive. The sensory payload is like nothing I've ever experienced, I was actually a little bit shaken afterwards. Good fun, but need to be in the right frame of mind for it.

We also went to a cute cheese and curd shop in town this weekend; Cherry Tree is a strong recommend. We got three types of interesting curd (key lime pie, lemon meringue, and carrot cake flavour) as well as a truffle gouda to go on a pizza I'm making, mushroom and sausage.

The pad thai and peanut satay from last week was good enough, but nothing to write home about. I don't have a recipe worth submitting, but I do recommend W2Kitchen's video about pad thai from scratch.