Classical guitarist Joaquin Gustav performs on The Rooftop at NO DUMPIRE on Saturday morning.
Ladies and gentlemen and fabulous people of all genders on the internet, I have been having a VERY bad couple of weeks. I was in a car accident two weeks ago, which aggravated the neck and shoulder pain I am experiencing, due to the deterioration of a couple of joints in the cervical part of my spine. On top of the stress of dealing with the worsening of my pain, and the additional stress of dealing with insurance agents and arranging to get my car repaired, this week I accidentally deleted several directories in my Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage while transferring files from my old Windows notebook to my new one. On Friday I had a meltdown while I was on the phone with my university’s tech support, while I was struggling with my neck and shoulder pain, made worse—of course!—by stress. Frustrated, overwhelmed, embarrassed, and in pain, I finally threw in the towel, took the rest of the day off sick, and went home and to bed. I am ashamed at how poorly I am coping with everything happening in my life these past two weeks.
All of which is a very roundabout way of saying that I am grateful for Second Life, which is still, to this day, one of my preferred escapes when reality becomes a bit too much. I know that some of my readers are probably wondering why I choose to spend much of my free time in a 22-year-old virtual world, which the mainstream media likes to portray as quaint, outdated, and populated by weirdos. (Hey, as I say, embrace your weirdness. Be a professional weirdo. This world is not served by billions of cookie-cutter humans who think alike, look alike, and act alike.) But I digress.
Second Life is the perfect model of a fully-mature, ever-evolving metaverse, which many newer entrants would be wise to study, learn from, and emulate. One thing that the mainstream media gets wrong is the reason for Second Life’s appeal. That appeal—what keeps its userbase coming back—is not its weirdness (although that is certainly part of it). Second Life’s main appeal is that it is an unparalleled blank canvas for people to be whoever or whatever they want, and create whatever they want. And nowhere is that more evident than in SL’s vibrant music scene.
For example, first thing this morning, my main avatar, Vanity Fair, ascended the ladder to get to The Rooftop, one of several venues located in a region called NO DUMPIRE, created and maintained by a dinkie raccoon avatar named Zed. This morning, I enjoyed a one-hour live music set from classical guitarist Joaquin Gustav, chatting with friends in SL while sipping my morning coffee.
Second Life is packed with musical venues, where I can park Vanity (or another avatar from my small army of alts) down in a club, to hear a deejay or a live musical performer or a singer/songwriter. Everything from fancy ballrooms like LOVE, to the decidedly anti-consumerist dumpster chic of NO DUMPIRE’s many venues.
As I write this, Joaquin has packed up his guitar and now DJ Zed is spinning an eclectic set of chill music. His usual avatar is a dinkie (i.e. tiny avatar) raccoon:
DJ ZedThe Rooftop at NO DUMPIRE during Zed’s deejay set
It beats the hell out of just turning on the radio, and listening to whatever limited set of music that radio station serves. Why do that, when you can support a live deejay or musical artist in Second Life, AND serve a fabulous look? Here is Vanity Fair dancing to the tail end of a song during Zed’s DJ set:
Second Life and its many clubs, venues, festivals, and other events exposes me to musical artists and deejays from all around the world (for example, Joaquin Gustav hails from from Buenos Aires, Argentina, a far cry from wintry Winnipeg, Canada where I live). I can join SL groups (like Joaquin’s group) for my favourite artists, so I’m alerted as to when and where they are performing next. And I can tip those performers whose music sparks joy and gives pleasure, using Linden dollars which artists like Joaquin can cash out into their local currency. AND NO ADVERTISING.
And it’s not just on a Windows, MacOS or Linux desktop that you can log in and listen to a virtual world venue’s music stream. Second Life’s new Mobile client (available for both Android and iOS phones and tablets) allows you to bring your music with you wherever you happen to be! Even on Mobile, the sound quality is excellent.
So, that is why Second Life is my radio station. Ladies and gentlemen (and fabulous people of all genders), I hereby rest my case. 😉 Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I was curious this morning, so I went into WordPress and checked out my blog viewer statistics. I used to check them much more frequently during the heady heyday of the metaverse boom-and-bust, circa 2019 to 2022, when traffic to my blog surged to unprecedented levels and then crashed, as shown by a screenshot I took of my WordPress statistics last March:
One notable event during that time period was Facebook rebranding itself as Meta on October 28th, 2021, amid Mark Zuckerberg’s expensive push to transform his company into a metaverse powerhouse (with somewhat mixed but still undeniable success, notably on the hardware side, with its Quest line of wireless VR/AR headsets).
Then, in 2022, the hype cycle for artificial intelligence started, an unexpected surge of interest driven by a tidal wave of new, generative AI tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT, and the world seemed to move on—as seen by a noticeable decline in visitors to the RyanSchultz.com blog! (It also didn’t help that through most of 2024 and 2025, I was swamped at my paying job as an academic librarian, having to put my blog on hiatus for a while as I went on half-time sick leave for six months for treatment of burnout. As a result, I barely posted anything during most of 2025.)
Anyway, as I said previously, I was curious, so I checked to see what my top ten most popular (i.e. most viewed) blog posts were last year.
One of the things that never ceases to amaze and amuse me is how much traffic certain blogposts receive: the relatively rare ones where I write about sexual topics! Let me be clear: while I am not a prude, I am also not that terribly interested in writing about adult/sex-oriented metaverse platforms, because I find pixelsex boring. Therefore, I will leave that particular niche of the metaverse to others to chronicle. 😉
Anyway, 2025 was no exception to the rule, with three of my top ten most popular bloposts being about such adult topics (by the way, all three links are quite safe for work):
Which just goes to prove the old adage: sex sells. Or, at least, that there’s lots of people searching for sex on the internet. (I really should rent out prime advertising space on that sex-in-VRChat blog post; I bet I’d make some income off that! Even though I freely admit in that blogpost that I have absolutely no idea where the sex is in VRChat. Sorry, folks. 😂😆🤣)
In the number two slot is the count of people who just went straight to my homepage at https://ryanschultz.com, without clicking on a link to specific blogpost. No surprise there.
My coverage of the many changes in Second Life during 2025 (most notably, the new Avatar Welcome Kit with its LeLutka Lite heads and Legacy Basic bodies) takes up four of the top ten spots:
And the final 2 slots in my Top Ten are the two lists I maintain, the first of virtual worlds and social VR platforms, and the second of non-combat, open-world exploration games.
Both lists seem to be referred to a lot by other writers on the internet (and, increasingly, by generative AI tools which scrape the web, including my blog). For example, ChatGPT has referred its users to my blog 448 times in 2025 (and, to be honest, I’m not quite sure how to feel about that):
Speaking of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, I do have plans to write more often on this topic, both as it applies to the ever-evolving metaverse, and more generally as well. Stay tuned!
No, I will no longer be writing about Second Life, although yes, I still will be playing it.
Well, as long-time readers of my blog know by now, I am absolutely terrible at sticking to any promises I make about my blog content. Right? Right??!?
My four-week Heated Rivalry-inspired endorphin high ended when I got into a car accident last weekend (ironically, on my birthday). Both vehicles involved were damaged. I was badly shaken up, and the accident triggered some body aches, and, of course, aggravated my already-existing neck and shoulder pain. It was my first car accident in almost twenty years, and I feel like such an idiot. Now I have to fit in visits to my insurance agent, my car dealership, and a bodyshop in between visits to the physiotherapist, massage therapist, and doctors. I have been exhausted, and I have been taking some sick days to rest, relax, and recuperate. Frankly, I’ve been a bit of a mess these past few days.
To get my mind off my current troubles, and to avoid a depressive spiral, I have been doing a deep dive into the Heated Rivalry fan fiction community over at Archive Of Our Own, as well as popping in to check the latest fan art, memes, and fan fiction recommendations on both Reddit and Tumblr. And so it was, that I decided to take two of my minor male alts (i.e. alternative, non-main avatars) and transform them, as best I could, into the gay hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov of the hit Crave television series Heated Rivalry, based on the Game Changers series of novels by Nova Scotia author Rachel Reid. (Some people who are artists can draw fan art; I instead choose to use my 18+ years of Second Life avatar creation and styling know-how to create models for my own form of fan art.)
I posted the results in several successive Primfeed posts (which most people probably don’t have access to, since you need a Second Life account to access the posts, as I have my account set to private), as well as to Tumblr, where they have been favourably received (you have to agree to view potentially mature content to see my pictures, even though there’s no nudity or sex, and you might have to actually sign up to Tumblr to see this, I don’t know; all the pictures are reposted below, anyway).
So, I decided this evening to finally share some pictures of my works-in-progress, as well as include detailed styling notes for both my Shane and Ilya avatars. First some pictures (please click on each one to see it in a larger size):
Ilya Rozanov Styling Credits:
Head, Eyes, and Hairbase: LeLutka Kris head (a freebie from a previous LeLutka December event)
Head Skin: Varka by Gloom (Velour Ivory skin tone; this was a previous weekend sale item Dreamer Pixelmaid told me about)
Eyebrows: Nuve Charlie eyebrows (EvoX, light brown tintable; free group gift; the Nuve group costs L$350 to join, but you get dozens of EvoX eyebrow fatpacks!)
Facial Moles: Ellie beauty marks and moles for EvoX from Guapa (not a perfect match, but close enough for now)
Neck Moles: Izzie’s neck moles (medium)
Hair: WingsDG ER0714 brown pack (this was probably the hardest thing to find; I tested out a lot of hair at a LOT of different places before deciding this one came closest to Ilya’s shaggy, curly hair!)
Body: Meshbody Legacy Special Edition Basic (free, from the Avatar Welcome Pack)
Body Skin: Velour Picasso Homme fit figure in Ivory skin tone (along with chest, leg, and happy trail body hair and body moles included in the package).
Toenails: Purec Nature Nails Male (free group gift; group is free to join)
Shape: My own, starting from the included body and eyebrow shapes included in the Varka skin package, and playing with the face, head, and body sliders to match up with internet pictures of Ilya Rozanov/Connor Storrie (still a work-in-progress, although I am very happy with this result).
Animation Overide: Tuty’s sLIFE Free Male AO (free)
Plaid Jacket: Rowers Beck Jacket #1 Legacy/Athletic (got this for free with a Rowers store credit from a previous Shop and Hop event)
Shorts: Hardcore (HD003ST) Men’s Slim Fit Shorts black (I bought this for free using free Hardcore store credit from a previous Shop and Hop event)
Head: LeLutka Eon Lite head (free, from the Avatar Welcome Pack)
Head Skin: Nick skin from Alexandrite (Velour Moon skin tone; this was also a weekend special deal that Dreamer Pixelmaid told me about)
Eyebrows: Nuve Dylan eyebrows (EvoX, black; free group gift; the Nuve group costs L$350 to join, as I said above, but you get dozens of EvoX eyebrow fatpacks!)
Eyes: Florest eyes from Alexandrite
Freckles: Voglia Freckless at 25% (a gift from a previous shopping event, which will do for now until I find the perfect Shane freckles!)
Hairbase: Dura black hairbase BoM EvoX (F1-01; free group gift)
Hair: Jack hairstyle by ADE (free group gift; group is free to join)
Body: Meshbody Legacy Special Edition Basic (free, from the Avatar Welcome Pack)
Body Skin: Velour Eros Lite for Legacy (Moon skin tone; this was a freebie from Velour from the very first LeLutka December event, six years ago)
Shape: My own, starting from the included Nick body and eyebrow shapes, and playing around with the face, head, and body sliders to match up with internet pictures of Shane Hollander/Hudson Williams (still a work-in-progress).
Animation Overide: Tuty’s sLIFE Free Male AO (free)
Plaid Jacket: Hardcore (HD008JK) Men’s Jacket with Hoodie R/B (I bought this for free using free Hardcore store credit froma previous Shop and Hop event)
Shorts: Arcback Shorts Blue – Legacy Basic (free; I believe I picked these up at the new Avatar Shopping Island here).
Bed with built-in cuddle poses and animations: Dutchie’s gay sex bed (I had Shane and Ilya test out the in-store model to take the cuddle poses, but I’m pretty sure I am going to go back and actually buy this, because the animations are marvelous! UPDATE Feb. 1st, 2026: Yep, I bought it!)
All other pictures taken on my super-secret desert island where I can rezz objects like pose stands for a short period of time before they are automatically returned. And, no, I am not telling you where it is! One new place I can recommend is The Fitting Room (I wrote about it on Primfeed here, but my Primfeed is set to private, so you’ll need to set up a Primfeed account to be able to read that post).
The Fitting Room offers private change rooms and photo studios.
UPDATE Jan. 30th, 2026: Okay, I finally found a good, large, front-facing picture of Shane Hollander from the internet (thanks again to Dreamer Pixelmaid!), and I spent some more time fiddling with the head and face sliders to make my Shane Hollander avatar look a little bit more like Shane Hollander/Hudson Williams. Here’s what he looks like today:
I’ve still gotta work a bit on the head shape (or perhaps, use a different head than the LeLutka Eon one). UPDATE Feb. 17th, 2026: I have now decided to switch out the Eon LeLutka Lite head for the Gen LeLutka Lite head from the Avatar Welcome Pack, and I’m much happier with that one:
This is (as a drugged-up Shane Hollander in the famous hospital scene from episode 5 of the TV show would say), BET-TER. 👍😉
Also, based on a helpful suggestion from Graeme Strange on Primfeed, I found a modify/copy/no-transfer gay cuddles/sex mat, which can be made invisible, and therefore can be incorporated with any Second Life bed! While I still like the Dutchie’s bed I mentioned above, and I am probably gonna go back and buy it, the Devinz mat cost only L$1,499 and was therefore an instant buy for me. Thank you, Graeme!
I couldn’t find it on their SL Marketplace store, but here’s the vendor at the Devinz Designz PG & Adult Furniture Store (exact SLURL), plus a few poses of Shane and Ilya cuddling that I took yesterday evening using their gay sex mat (click on each picture to see it in a bigger size):
UPDATE Feb. 1st, 2026: Okay, I bought some more hockey equipment for Shane and Ilya. First, some more pictures (please click on each one to see it in a bigger size):
I already talked about the hockey T-shirts above in my avatar styling credits, but here’s what I added:
The hockey pants from Meva (which only come in a Gianni size) fit my avatar’s Legacy Basic body fairly well, with a few alphas required in the hips. upper leg and knee area. These come in a very complete fatpack to change the texture of multiple parts of the pants and knee guards, and are L$495 here: exact SLURL (the Meva store has a central spawn point, so use the Show on Map feature and follow the red arrow/beam to the menswear section).
The only decent black hockey ice skates I could find were part of a hockey gacha from Sese PA, which I bought for L$120 from a reseller here on the SL Marketplace: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/11-Sese-PA-Winter-Hockey-Skates-black/26694430 (again, I needed a foot/ankle alpha and a toenail alpha for the Legacy Basic body used here).
To cover the bare skin between the skates and the kneepads, I just created a new underwear layer, using a wool fabric texture, adjusting the waist and length, and tinting it dark grey.
WARNING: This is yet another one of my Ryan-Schultz-patented meandering editorial blog posts, written during the week I turn 62 years old. I promise you, I will soon return to regularly-scheduled programming about (as the tagline of my blog now states) “News and Views on Social VR, Virtual Worlds, and the Metaverse, plus Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI’s Impact on the Metaverse.” (Hey, at least, this time, I didn’t write a whole goddamn paragraph for the blogpost title. 😜)
My birthday always falls in the very coldest of winter weather here in Winnipeg, and today has been the coldest day this season by far:
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According to the Environment Canada website, with the windchill factored in, it feels like -48°C (that works out to -54°F for you metric-system-averse Americans). Even worse, it’s going to stay this cold for at least the next seven days, according to the forecast:
This is the time of year when we intrepid Winnipeggers, bundled up in layers covering every square centimetre of skin except for the eyes, stumble between our homes and our cars, and then rush from our cars to our workplaces, mumbling the following hallowed mantra: “noearthquakesnovolcanoesnoearthquakesnovolcanoesnoearthquakesnovolcanoes….“
But fear not! While I beaver away in my (thankfully heated) cubicle at the University of Manitoba Libraries, I am surrounded by the sights and sounds of gentle waves rippling along a sandy beach in Bora Bora, one of the Apple Vision Pro’s expertly-designed immersive Environments:
The clouds gently hover, and the palm trees sway, as I work away on my MacBook Pro, using the Virtual Display feature in my Apple Vision Pro headset. Simply by reaching up and turning the upper right knob on my AVP, I banish my drab workspace surroundings in wintry Winnipeg, and replace it with a tropical paradise!! (Drinks with umbrellas not included; they would frown upon that at work.)
I have already written at length about my continuing neck and shoulder pain, due to a couple of deteriorating joints in the cervical part of my spine, the first serious sign that my aging body is starting to wear out. However, having now had some everal months’ experience with this discomfort, I now know that the two biggest triggers of that pain are:
Sitting too long in front of a desktop computer or notebook computer, hunched over my keyboard; and
When I get stressed, my neck and shoulder muscles tend to tighten up, and soon my shoulders are aching.
So, I now spend between 4 and 6 hours per workday using the Mac Virtual Display on my trusty Apple Vision Pro headset with my MacBook Pro, because I have discovered that, instead of looking down at a small screen at arms-length, my neck gets less sore, and I can work for longer stretches, looking up and ahead at a large, clear, ultra-high-definition screen hovering in the space over my desk, which is designed to appear as if you were looking at it from about 1.8 metres/6 feet away from my eyes:
Focal distance in the context of VR headsets refers to the distance at which the lenses allow your eyes to focus comfortably. In the case of the Apple Vision Pro, the actual focal distance is set around six feet.
This means that, regardless of the virtual distance of an object in the digital space, your eyes will focus as if that object were six feet away.
Also, when I upgraded my AVP from the first edition (with the M2 graphics processing chip) to the refreshed model (which contains a top-of-the-line M5 chip), I noticed that the eyestrain I used to experience after about an hour and a half while wearing the unit has completely disappeared. Hooray! And the new dual-strap knit band fits much more comfortably on my big fat head. Aside from the occasional neck-wrenching mishap, the Apple Vision Pro is worth every single penny I have spent on it. And I will be first in line to purchase the next edition of this wonderful headset. As I said before, I am all in.
Thankfully, I have finally received the final report from the Ergonomics Office at my university, with a detailed shopping list of recommended equipment to purchase. Like many of my younger work colleagues, I will be getting an adjustable-height sit/stand desk, risers to place my MacBook Pro and my brand-new Dell Windows notebook at the proper eye height, new desktop monitor holders and keyboard trays, etc. I am also learning (with the help of my ergonomist and my physiotherapist), how to take regular breaks, to stretch, walk around the office, and do some neck, shoulder, chest, and upper-back strengthening exercises.
The good news is that, because of all these changes, I am now in less frequent pain than I was a few months ago. But it has come at a cost. You see, I need to save what I like to call my “good neck” hours for my paying job as an academic librarian, which means that I have has to cut back significantly on my extracurricular, after-hours activities that used to require me to spend similarly long stretches of time sitting in front of a desktop computer at home.
One of those activities that I have had to cut back on is, unsurprisingly, my beloved virtual world of Second Life. Trying to navigate my small army of avatars and alts through all the Advent calendars and Christmas gifts in December just about did me in last month, and I have decided that my body is telling me that I desperately need to rebalance my real life/Second Life ratio a little bit, and spend more time in (gasp!) the real world. 😜
Speaking of the real world, I have maintained my boycott of mainstream social media platforms, in order to continue to focus on my good mental and emotional health. And for the same reason, I am not really paying attention to the traditional news media right now, either; if I have zero personal control over it, I simply don’t want to know. Every so often, my eyes hover over a newspaper headline at the supermarket checkout line with the latest story about Trump and Greenland, I grimace and roll my eyes, and I promptly move on with my day, focusing on those things I do have some control over (like my job, my friends, my community, and my obsessive little hobbies like Second Life). I have found that, simply by avoiding toxic social media and if-it-bleeds-it-leads news media and the doomscrolling both trigger, I have never been in a better headspace overall, and I intend to continue this approach moving forward into what appears to be yet another year of batshit craziness, train wrecks, and dumpster fires.
Trump who? Greenland what?? Don’t care, not my circus, not my monkeys.
I find I don’t miss Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X/whatever the fuck Apartheid Clyde is calling it this week, at all, and I spend precious little time on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Substack (although I do check the latter from time to time, mostly for AI/GenAI news). The only social media spots I pop into now are selected subreddits on Reddit (like r/AppleVisionPro and r/VisionPro), Primfeed (think Twitter/X, but only by and about Second Life), and now Tumblr (for the wonderfully creative Heated Rivalry fan art, memes, and fan-edited music videos using clips from the TV show). Even a couple of Discord servers devoted to Heated Rivalry have popped up, where fans share fanfic recommendations! It lifts my spirit and makes me happy.
For the past four weeks, ever since my SL friend first told me about Heated Rivalry and suggested I watch the show, I have been riding a wave of feel-good hormones like serotonin and oxytocin from the Crave TV series about a hidden love affair between two professional-league hockey players (I wrote about it here). And I am not the only one feeling that heady rush after watching the show! Many commenters in posts on the r/HeatedRivalry subreddit talk about the impact the show has had on them, and many have watched the entire TV series multiple times. The best and most concise summary of this phenomenon (which one joker suggested we call “the Heated Rivalry Mass Psychosis Event” 😂) is that watching the show makes you feel as though you are falling in love. There are many Reddit and Tumble posts from people who, like me, feel that the show has given them an important insight on their lives and how they are living them.
The following Reddit post is one example I saved because I could relate to it so much:
One Heated Rivalry fan’s emotional response to the show. I could 100% relate to this person saying that they had cut themselves off from dating, romance, and intimacy, because watching the TV show made me realize the exact same thing about myself. I could share with you dozens of other examples from Tumblr and Reddit about how the show has impacted viewers. This show has genuinely struck a chord with many people in the LGBTQIA+ community (and probably in the straight world, too).
And—just as I had with the movie Brokeback Mountain, almost exactly 20 years ago—After watching the Heated Rivalry television series, I bought and read books 2 and 6 of Nova Scotia author Rachel Reid’s book series Game Changers (the original source material for season 1 and the already-greenlit season 2 of Heated Rivalry), and then dove head-first into the Heated Rivalry/Game Changers-inspired fan fiction posted to Archive of Our Own (AO3 for short). Here’s a link to AO3 of HR/GC fan fiction, sorted in descending order by kudos (fan likes). WARNING: please note that many of these fanfics have an adult content warning for explicit gay sex scenes! One of the ironic things I find about explicit gay fan fiction (also called slash fiction) is that it is primarily written by, and read by, an audience that is predominantly straight women (although, of course, it also has many fans among the LGBTQIA+ community).
Connor Storrie (left) plays Ilya Rozanov and Hudson Willaims plays Shane Hollander in the surprise hit Crave TV series Heated RIvalry (showing on HBO Max in the U.S.)
Yesterday, my hometown newspaper, the Free Press, devoted a full two-page spread about how Heated Rivalry has become a major pop-culture moment, with ripples spreading out far beyond the queer community and fan fiction writers. I had to laugh when I read a column (original; archived version if you hit a paywall) where three FP reporters were discussing their squeamishness about watching the gay sex scenes in Heated Rivalry. Straight people clutching their pearls over depictions of gay sex in mainstream media are just so funny to me.
I mean, c’mon, people. For God’s sake, if you’ve ever watched Bridgerton, there’s just as much (non-genital but ass-showing) nudity and (non-X-rated) sex happening there, and nobody needs to fetch their smelling salts for that! We do the exact same things in bed that you do, straight people (and no, on second thought, I am NOT gonna spell it out for you here). 😉 Please get OVER yourself.
Okay, end of rant…switching to other topics.
I have two things coming up that I wanted to share with you, my faithful blog readers. First, I have been honoured to be asked to be one of the keynote speakers at the 2026 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference, taking place in the virtual world of Second Life March 19-21, 2026. Of course, I said yes! I haven’t picked a topic or even a presentation title yet, but expect an announcement soon-ish.
Second, although it is not official official (and I really should wait until I get the official letter from university administration, which I was told should happen about the end of March), the University of Manitoba Libraries has approved my application to take a one-year Research and Study Leave (at full salary) to start later this year, where I am relieved of my regular academic librarian duties, and can work on a special project. Academic librarians at the University of Manitoba are members of the faculty union, and just like the the professors, we have the right (and the opportunity) to pursue research. Again, more details later. I’ve only mentioned this to a couple of people so far, but I think I can share that much detail at this time.
So 2026 is going to be a very interesting year for me, on several fronts! Heated Rivalry has inspired me to make some significant choices and changes already (some of which you will hear about, and others you won’t). Wish me luck!
