Update Now page and add comprehensive About page

- Updated Now page with current September 2025 information
- Added new About page with full biography, career history, and awards
- Includes 30+ year tech career, LocallyGrown story, and personal philosophy

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@@ -12,33 +12,52 @@ title: Eric in the Present
 [pics]: https://pix.kestrelsnest.social/@eric
 [ericsayshi]: https://podcasts.kestrelsnest.social/@EricSaysHi
 [grimmlunch]: https://grimmlunch.org
-[steampunk]: https://www.atlantasteampunkexpo.com
+[locallygrown]: /posts/locallygrown-origin-story/
+[randomrecipe]: https://www.youtube.com/@RandomRecipeProject
+[conpossible]: https://www.conpossible.com
 
-This page is all about what I am doing *now*. It was last updated on January 7, 2023, and will be edited as things change.
+This page is all about what I am doing *now*. It was last updated on September 23, 2025, and will be edited as things change.
 
 ## Where I am now
 
-Living in Athens, GA in a home I had already been renting for five years before my partner and I bought it several months into the pandemic.
+Still living in Athens, GA in the home my partner and I bought several months into the pandemic. Same house, same neighborhood, same roots growing deeper.
 
 ## Who I am around now
 
-Our house has three people and three cats. The people include me, my partner, and my youngest daughter who spends every other week with us. My eldest child moved away to Georgia State University in the fall of 2022, something I'm still processing.
+Our house has three people and two cats. The people include me, my partner, and my youngest daughter who spends every other week with us—she's a sophomore in high school and doing great things. My eldest is now a senior at Georgia State University.
 
-The cats like to keep me company while I'm working, so you'll find plenty of photos of them in [my gallery][pics].
+We [lost Charlie](/posts/2023-07-24-goodbye,-charlie/) but our two remaining cats continue to keep me company while I'm working. You'll find plenty of photos of them in [my gallery][pics].
 
 ## What I am doing now
 
-I'm on the management team and am a senior developer at [Infinity Interactive][infinity]. In practice, that means I get loaned out to companies who need some help building great software. I just wrapped up a two-year-long stint helping a DNA foundry build the software that tracks everything in their lab. Now I'm helping a biotech robotics company get their new flagship robot out the door.
+I'm the Vice President of Technology at [Infinity Interactive][infinity]. Our whole industry is in turmoil, so work is hard. We're doing a wide range of consulting—from technical infrastructure and software development to workflows and solving both simple and complex problems. Basically, all things having to do with technology and helping organizations organize what they have.
+
+Just completed a massive six-month migration of [LocallyGrown.net][locallygrown] from dying Rails 3 infrastructure to modern SvelteKit. The migration to new infrastructure is complete, but now the real journey is just beginning as we can take advantage of all the things the modern platform has to offer. Time to write new features, grow the service, and take it to the next couple of decades.
 
 ## What I am reading now
 
-[The Nova Incident](https://dmoren.com/the-nova-incident/) by [Dan Moren](https://dmoren.com/)
+Just finished a new short story by Dan Moren set in his Galactic Cold War series—it was wonderful. Currently a few pages into *Service Model* by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
 
 ## What else?
 
-- focusing my anger on the destruction of Twitter by [creating my own][blog] [federated][mastodon] [social][pics] outlets
-- releasing episodes of my new super short [daily podcast][ericsayshi] and slowly reviving my old [Brothers Grimm podcast][grimmlunch]
-- thinking about costuming for a [space-themed steampunk event][steampunk] in February
+### Emerging from the LocallyGrown Marathon
+The LocallyGrown work consumed 100% of my free time over the last five months. Everything got dropped. I'm slowly emerging from that intensity and starting to pick things back up. Kind of in recovery mode, just slowly coming back out and getting to be myself again.
+
+### Creative Projects Resuming
+- Working on a corset vest sewing project that I'm super excited about
+- Eager to get back to my YouTube cooking series, the [Random Recipe Project][randomrecipe]
+- Haven't released podcast episodes for [Eric Says Hi][ericsayshi] or [Brothers Grimm Lunch][grimmlunch] in quite a while, but want to start again—I just need to do it
+- Eyeing some leather working projects with supplies sitting ready for this fall
+
+### Upcoming Events
+- **Wild Rumpus** (end of October) - Athens' big outdoor Halloween parade festival. Need to decide on and create my costume soon!
+- **[CONpossible][conpossible]** (2026) - I'm the Costuming Track Director for this annual convention that started as steampunk but has expanded to embrace all of the "punks." This year's theme is "Through the Faerie Ring"—magic mixed with technology should be a lot of fun
+
+## Where my head is
+
+Really just trying to emerge from the LocallyGrown marathon. I knew it was going to take a lot out of me, but I wasn't quite ready for how much effort it took and how all-consuming it was. Slowly rediscovering equilibrium and reconnecting with the creative projects that feed my soul.
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