This is not the post I was going to write tonight. But life happens, and so, I must blog about its happenings.

Looks like I’m heading back to Cincinnati, back to my parent’s house. You see, I’ve decided to help them pay a large portion of the down payment on their house required to get rid of the insurance on the mortgage.

As you would have guessed, this completely destroys my runway. Of course, I would have food and housing taken care of, but I’d be going back to my parents house.

The last time I was there was after I finished my freelance stint after I graduated from college. I left after getting angry at them for their impatience in my inability to get a full-time job, and largely myself, for not being able to get a full-time job. (Really, it’s because I aimed WAY too high with what I had, such as the low GPA coming out of school, thinking that my experience in web development would pick up the slack. It did, eventually, which is how I ended up back in Urbana, IL, but not without a stop up in Minneapolis for a job for… six weeks.)

Going back feels like a failure to me. I was ready to see how far I could take my company before falling back on them again, and was planning to leave for Seattle or Portland for a new set of life experiences. I guess those can be put on hold for family.

It’s mildly annoying because now I’m all wrapped up in moving yet again. I don’t mind the moving (in fact, I would be enjoying it if I was moving to somewhere new), but I mind the fact that I’m not spending time on doing what I should be doing: creating a product.

I came back from California with a renewed sense of scope (amongst other things, which I have yet to blog on). Now, I have this renewed sense of urgency. Let’s make some magic happen with a mixture of these two.