Hello
Well, I have been wanting to write a blog for many years already... I am a computer engineer by formation, a software engineer by occupation and a writer by illumination. First thing I remember about writing is how much I hated writing when I was at junior school. By the end of high school this started to change, and when I went to the university I was quite an avid writer, though of course I never shared that writing with anyone.
A couple of years ago, when we discovered that my wife was pregnant, I decided to handwrite a journal about it and it was so exciting that in a couple of weeks I finished the first notebook, but N was born before I could finish the second notebook. And then I took a very very long hiatus from writing... being parent to a baby girl with zero network of support is tough and time consuming, but a couple of days ago, when my mind was about to explode, I sat and wrote again. And the idea of blogging returned.
Besides parenting, in 2023 I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. That alone caused some quakes in my life, which was amended with some therapy. Some medications made my mental state degrade considerably, and when I found a good one, many cracks were exposed in my neurological, mental and emotional health. I've been thinking about blogging also as a way to express these feelings, hoping that it will help me find balance and reduce the load on a (hopefully currently) not very capable mind.