Happy new year to all- here's hoping you had a good one, and hope yet that it's better than 2022.

The previous year was a... dubious one for me. All year long, I made great strides in my passions and work life- I started getting more regularly into art, more involved in the things I wanted to do overall, and became a part of some fantastic communities. However, it also came at the cost of some pretty crap days, weeks, and even months. March was when I wound up getting my first strike at work (the first one in a long time, anyway), and May had me sleeping in the guest bedroom of my house for at least three weeks due to the ceiling collapsing in my room- of course, those are the most notable offenses, but that's also just the start. To make a long story short, while I'm grateful for the progress made last year, and the memories are things I can look back and laugh at, it's certainly nothing I'd like to relive.

A memory I would HAPPILY replay every week for the rest of this year, however, is MAGFest. I attended the one last year, and while, sure, I had fun at that one as well (even cosplayed!), I didn't have NEARLY as much fun at THAT one as I did this one: panels, good food, excellent games, the merch hall, panels (Thrown Controllers baybeeeeeee), and TONS of popular faces decided to swing by this time. Even the hotel was better than the one I stayed at last year!

That said... I'll confess: I still have FOMO. I did literally everything I wanted and set out to do without fail, and yet, I should've done twice as more. More panels and more indy video games, for sure (and maybe going to that bar on Saturday night wouldn't have hurt). Ah well- more to look forward to next year.

In the mean time, here's to a much more productive year overall, and more art to come: starting with something I should've posted a week ago...