Hallo Welt!
Once again, many years has passed since my last blog update. In the past three years, many exciting things have happened! That means I get to just put a bunch of disjointed thoughts here about what has happened. 2022 - Rehab from second shoulder surgery continued into 2022 (but we went to Arizona on a road trip that winter for family Christmas time, which was awesome—filled with piñatas, Scottsdale, food, and fun—and we visited SpaceX’s launch site in Texas and spent NYE in New Orleans on the way back) - My boyfriend went to Ukraine as a volunteer in 2022 about a week after the Russian invasion, and he still does humanitarian work there - I started a new task at my job (lots of travel, less on-hands lab work, lots of learning)—the highlights included a few trips to some boat builder, working with other engineers and scientists in the industry, and being involved in some logistically challenging testing - I ran my first 50 miler in 2022 (it was five loops of mostly trails, with about 1-