Had nice quiet at-home dinners three times in the last week with other couples. These were people my wife and I have done Big Things with - like organizing huge in-town raves, establishing Burning Man camps, building enormous multi-story art, and other crazy shenanigans.

But we have all kinda been focusing inwardly over the past few years. Home projects. Personal betterment. Cocooning and nesting, really.

Over the last few weeks we have been having dinner with just a couple of people. During the week. For a few hours in the evening. Just chilling, chatting, and eating. Catching up. Reminiscing. Enjoying each other's company.

It has been lovely, and nurturing, and really perfect. It's nice to have shared history, and to have the particularly insane bits be firmly a part of the past, rather than the future.

And tomorrow I am joining what I hope will become a weekly Texas Hold-Em tournament! I've missed playing cards with friends, and this is a circle of friends I haven't been able to spend time with in years.

Oh! And yesterday my wife and I planned a trip out to the coast with another couple to go tuna fishing in August...! I haven't been deep sea fishing in a LONG time, and am looking forward to a chance to connect with this couple (we know her well, but never met her husband or their newly-adopted kids), and are quite honored she asked us to be the other couple to join them.

Life is pretty nice.