Saturday, 30-August-2025

<How’d I post this without text or pictures? Who knows… but thank you for bearing with!>

Every year, there’s an event on the rivers in Sofia called, aptly, “The Rivers of Sofia”. It’s one of the many events that Andrea remembers fondly from her days in Bulgaria, having joined in as an attendee, so I’d heard quite a bit about it on our drive over.

In short, the idea was that it helped clean up the canals around Sofia. They’d gotten a bit messy over the decades, and this event worked by holding the event at different parts of the rivers every year. Cleaning them up in preparation, and then leaving them better than they’d found them.

Simple, efficient, and absolutely well put together! We walked, we talked, Andrea got recognized by tons of people… it was lovely. And as the evening fell, the whole event lit up magically – the river brightening, bands playing… it really was a magical summers evening.

<A meta-post, about posting, and so this isn’t dated. But it was posted on 08-Feb-2026, for those curious kittens>

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted something to this blog.

I’m not gone, and the blog isn’t forgotten. It’s simply a casualty of insanity – mine, mainly focused on a lack of time. I graduated Trinity, and thought I’d finally have a minute to get caught up with the blog… but, in trust, I fell face-first into the job hunt. Then, into frustration about said job hunt. Then working on a startup, then… well, I’m getting ahead of myself.

My apologies to you, dear reader, for this lapse. And, in truth, for the low quality of posts that are to come.

The photography should make up for that, but please bear with me in the shortness of the descriptions. I figure that it’s better to get these stories up, in whatever form I can, than to let the backlog become so monstrous that I end up giving up… or worse, trying to use ChatGPT to write the posts automatically, or some other crap.

Instead, I’ll do my best.

And that’s the best any of us can do.