• Day Job Gigs: - I recently began a new gig as a hybrid support engineer for a gaming studio. An awesome experience and a wonderful team to work with.
  
  I graduated May 2019 from the 2-year training program in IT Network Administration and cybersecurity I told you-all about. One of the big enduring benefits I gained from that is access to continuing technical training through a variety of media, such as LinkedIn Learning and Cisco Academy, that we utilized in some of my in-person classes the last few years.
  
  The caregiving gig has taken a smaller role in my life, we have more professional help with that nowadays.
  
  
• Acting projects: - My current schedule doesn't allow for fully-staged theatre projects, and hasn't for awhile. I'm keeping my acting chops from getting terribly rusty in other ways, such as table readings and staged readings of new scripts for playwright and screenwriter groups.
  
  And the occasional Meisner Play Date at a local acting studio. Those are great fun.
  
  Last year, before I started back to school, I had a delightful gig reading historical monologues in assisted living venues. I got to research and portray Lizzie Orway, the eldest Mercer Girl who emigrated to Seattle in the late 1800s, from working in the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, just a few miles away from her contemporaries the Alcott family, whom I'd researched heavily when playing Marmee in Little Women years ago. And, as luck would have it, I happened to visit family in Albuquerque, NM. We visited the Harvey House Museum near there, and learned about another avenue for women to make a decent living in days gone by. Fascinating stories in all of the above!
  
  
• Music Projects: Again, on sabbatical from most projects, except for singing in church choir and whatnot. Which is fabulous training for making a person brave and crazy. There is nothing like a performance with little or no rehearsal to make you less perfectionist about rehearsing, and more interested in learning all the new tools to help you practice unfamiliar songs on your own.
  
  Otherwise, I'm trying to carve out some time to learn a few new popular tunes to sing with my guitar. I let my busker's permit lapse this year, just unable to carve out opportunities to use it.
  
  
• Web Site Updates: What's in progress with this web site Dr. Ice and Dana's WWW Home Pages
  
  
• Writing Projects: I'm pondering where to go with some concepts I've been working on since completing the Screenwriting Certificate Program at the UW. For the time being, while I have very little free time, those stories are just one fabulous way to de-stress when life gets chaotic. :) I met some great people through the screenwriting program, and we've inspired each other with challenges and projects since classes ended.
  
  
• Other Projects: Technical support for the block watch team in my neighborhood, and for my aging relatives and their needs, including a concurrent effort in all branches of my family, including my in-laws, to study family trees, history, genealogy, and build timelines of family stories. These two projects are very fulfilling, are very engaging for even family members with dementia, Alzheimer's Disease and other health problems. Working on timelines for real people's lives, and discovering relatives that we never knew existed, it's very exciting for everyone. These adventures are also feeding a large number of story ideas for new writing projects. Good times! And some very compelling stories!