A plan to get back on track.

I think I'll make it a point to reopen this.  It's as good a venue as any, and if I call in some help to stay on task and keep striving forward maybe it'll show some progress too.
I've now worked for 4 years after graduation, at a fun though stressful job that doesn't actually have any future direction.  That is as a field service tech/engineer at Sky-Skan Inc, and while it brings plenty of technical and practical challenges, it absolutely just feels like idling.  So I now find myself trying to guess how much longer I'll be able to keep working here, and trying to decide what to do next.
An opportunity passed by me not too long ago; not to say I didn't jump at it, but a combination of being out of shape at interviewing and what should have been some core technical skills meant I got the interview (where Green Andrew had used to work) but wasn't too impressive about it.  I am trying to not consider it just a courtesy interview, but in the end I didn't get it and that was that.  Regrets but no hard feelings.
But next... try for another job? Could be one that is less mania and less travel, chances for better pay and upward motion and learning actual applicable skills.  (How is it that I feel like I've gotten through these last four years having hardly learned/grown at all??)  (Draw connection here between my feelings about innate vs striven for talent and success.)
I don't think I can take a break completely; I don't see myself making good use of that.  But I definitely want to revisit goals and skills and develop them more, possibly in the 1-2 year future, and then make a big jump at something... whatever it will be... that actually holds a real desire for me.

To that end, I want to try opening this blog again as a works-in-progress showcase for various projects.  Programming, electronics, mathematics, astronomical... I'll try to develop that list soon.  And then post as I start, struggle with, and complete them - turn it into a showcase and portfolio.

Just the first few ideas, things that have been in the works (or just in my head) for a long time:
Capacitance calculator program
"Cylon" LED strip (arduino)
Subaru info/awd interface (arduino)
Rework some of the A-calc derivations and identities
Practice formatting/viewing GIS data
and we'll see what else.
Thanks for your attention and support - you know who you are :)