Happy New Year?

Happy new year and decade, everyone!

I've been absent for multiple months after finishing school and getting my degree, and then taking a couple of months to rest. Reason being, I was looking for a job. As that proved unexpectedly difficult, I put some rules into place for myself to better help focus my efforts. Among those rules: "No new games until I find a job." So I spent a lot of time applying to places and doing other relevant work necessary for finding a job.
Recently though, I felt it was just out of my hands for a large part and putting in more work wasn't going to produce any better results - I just had to wait. That also freed up some time I could use for some programming projects I've had and I finally decided that I might as well get back to playing some games as I wait. I don't want to jinx it, but I feel like I've made good progress with one job application and could land that job early January. So I've been a bit more lax in my search lately and have quite a few reviews scheduled over the next days.

On another topic I've been thinking about for quite a while now... I think 2020 is the year I'm going to finally make my own website. I've wanted one to showcase some smaller and larger projects I've made as well as anything I'll make in the future that's worth showing. I would of course also migrate my blog there, and perhaps add some nice features Blogger doesn't quite allow for (or at least they aren't easy to make/use here). I've completed enough on my list of programming projects that my own site is starting to surface as something I would want to do soon. It would be a large undertaking, as I like making things from (mostly) scratch, and that requires me to learn quite a few new technologies, but I believe the end result will be worth it.
What projects I might have before that are to learn Rust, fiddle with Tensorflow some, and maybe develop my image viewer/editor some more, but I doubt those would last me even close to the whole year.

So, in brief: I am back for now and hope to have enough time to continue after I get a job. I'm also going to start working on my own website, and will port the blog over there once it's finished. For the next week or few you can enjoy a game review I've queued up for every day. Maybe you'll find something you'll like. I know I already did.