The new mix was called The Alligator and The Owl. The new mix was (at least) two discs long and much less melancholy than any playlist I’d assembled before. And appropriately so – 26 has so far been the best year of my life, starting with one amazing day.

The first disc is done, and you can listen to it here as a single 74 MB mp3. Work on the second disc stagnated for months, and so did my writing practice. I’ve been trying to resume the latter; the former, I’m reconsidering.

Occasionally, Christina would suggest I finish the second disc. Last time we talked about it, she suggested scrapping it and starting anew. That’s probably what’s going to happen.