Returning to my thoughts here after a couple of years break feels very strange. I remember several of the plans I had just after graduation from Champlain College to continue and expand my web presence. I abandoned most of them as I realized that I was enjoying the simplicity of working at JiffyLube cleaning cars, changing oil and continuing my education in a different direction. I had intended to put up a personal website to showcase my work to potential employers but stalled when I realized I could barely stand to display any of my previous work outside of Arco and Korku. I had intended to continue posting on this blog but quickly forgot about it and failed to keep to any kind of schedule.
Initially my work at JiffyLube served only to gain experience working a 9-5 job and to gain some pocket change for my last year at Champlain. I quickly found that the work appealed to me in its simplicity. I didn't need to worry if I would need to pull multiple all night work sessions to complete a project and each car had a repetitious regularity that I found meditative. My new appreciation for auto work combined with my emotional exhaustion of the final year at Champlain to drive me to expand my horizons beyond coding. I had known nothing about cars or how to maintain them when I started work at JiffyLube and learned from the ground up all the basics my parents had never taught me.
I lapsed in maintaining this blog because at the end of my time at Champlain I was accustomed to using this space for homework, it was mine but not mine to do with as I pleased. Without a clear idea what to do with this area outside of homework I did not have any interest in continuing to post here. Returning here with an idea of what I want to use this space for, I hope to continue updating this space on a weekly basis. Each week I intend to talk about my personal projects I am working on or gaming topics that interest me, sometimes I expect there will be overlap.
-Vasily McCausland
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