Oh! Hey! Thread still here! And I skip these most years because I feel like the update is mostly the same every year, but then I see everyone else's and delight in hearing from people I don't hear from all that often!
2019 started with fleeing a job I really really loved at one point, that turned really toxic. Over half the software team left within 3 or so months. That kind of toxic.
My current job is... not really a dream job either, thanks largely to a couple of fairly stereotypical techbros in particular, but it pays more and I care about it less. I can stick it out there for a bit.
In the mean time, we were found by a third cat by our usual method of "oh hi sucker humans I am starving on your back porch and you appear to be a sucker". I have gotten deeper into my expensive habit/hobby of building guitars which I one day will get good enough at to sell. Spouse is still heavily involved in fencing as a coach, referee, and (now that he's finally over 40) newly-successful competitor in what we lovingly call the old-farts division. I'm out of the sport for a few years now, and I miss it like fire but also don't miss the level of both joint pain and competition burnout. I bake a lot of bread.
2020 began with our offer on a SHINY NEW HOUSE [link] , which we close on in a month and holy sheepdip how are we ever going to get ourselves together to move even a mile away dear lord I do not have msbelle-level gtd superpowers. Like at all. But it's very pretty and we'll have enough room to actually have people come by! Including wandering buffistas!