Oh dang, is this a new fad? We're still doing fads?

So. April.

Man, I think a big chunk of adulthood is routine. Working the day job. Finding ways to relax. Repeat. Oh and housework and chores, can't forget those.

But as I say that, April was a fun month.

To that work part, the day job has been cool. I got a piece out on social media and I have another that locked and should hopefully be out to the world soon (assuming it doesn't die after lock, like something of mine did last year). I've been at this company for over three years now and moved from a support role to a primarily creative position a few months ago and it's so cool to finally get stuff I'm making out there. And it's still surreal to be getting to work on the projects I work on, so even when I'm up at 4am in several hours of overtime getting stuff out, the fact that I'm working on Thunderbolts is still pretty cool. Does it make it worth it? Is any job or creative endeavor worth 15+ hour days? I don't have an answer to that. But I've had worse jobs for lousier stuff, so overall, I'm fairly content. To think, twenty-two years ago I was making gif cartoons on this very website.

The wife and I have a couple friends in San Diego and we headed down to visit them since one had organized a Fish Taco Biking Tour. Which was exactly what it sounds like. So we spent the day biking around the city, then went back to their place for drinks and Wingspan. Because grownups. An old friend of mine from New York would do annual taco crawls and I asked him to send me the rubric he gives out to rate each one so we got to describe each taco with a haiku.

April also saw my brother-in-law get married, a wedding that I was asked to officiate. Did manage to compile my scattered notes on the back of work calendars, a pitch outline, and envelope into a decent ceremony, even if I was making final notes at the venue's bar right before the ceremony began. Because I'm organized like that. But congrats to him and his wife! The Lego Rivendell was on their registry and we contributed the final chunk to that one's fund. Because Rivendell is a great set.

A local brewery hosted a 20s-themed Murder Mystery too, that the wife and I attended. The organizers got the memo from our answers to their google form and we were cast as a Hollywood power couple — except I was the diva wife and she the French artiste husband. Us in drag for a Murder Mystery is par the course, but us cast as an actual couple? That's new, haha.

All that, of course, are the exceptions to the routine of the everyday life of work, housework, and all the rest. Written out here it makes it sound like I had an exciting April but those are a few days out of the month. I guess a blog is to highlight those exciting days, like how social networks used to be about documenting those fun and special times.

A lot of April was spent on the couch with the wife playing Clair Obscur, which isn't as ~exciting~ as the above, but I'd say is a pretty special time too.