I find that I enjoy communicating with the world at large through my blog, especially if I don’t think about it too hard. I am really looking forward to 2022, I think a lot of great things are coming my way. And the first one happened today; I closed on my first ever house. I owned a house a long time ago in the distant past when I was married, and I have owned this condo for a year and a half, but this is the first time ever owning a real house all by my lonesome. I got to FaceTime my parents and show them the whole thing. The house isn’t really anything special but it’s my house, and it’s in the bay area. I feel very grateful and lucky to even get to do this at all. Perhaps in the next post I’ll share the experiences I had looking for the house, such as the leaky house listed at $849,000 that I put an offer on which ended up selling for $1.3 million. But for the moment, I’ll just content myself with leaving this here. More to come.