Now

What I'm doing
right now.

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Work
Active

CIO at a three-year-old MSP

Balancing the daily reality of keeping existing technology running, staying ahead of what's next, and making sure everyone on the team has what they need. The company just hit three years on April 1st. Still feels like we're building the plane while flying it — in the best way.

Perform
Active

Gigs with the Sherna Armstrong Band, SASS & more

Performing backup with the Sherna Armstrong Band — Hard Rock Casino Tejon on May 14th. Also performing regularly as SASS (Sherna and Shayla Sing) at The Vault.

Performing with a band on the 13th — a Sade tribute set. Details to come. That one is going to be something.

Learning bass in the background. There is an actual bass. Progress is slow and mostly theoretical.

Broadcast
Building

The Night Shift on @mspbackline

Live streaming my actual night shift — no production, no performance, just the work and whoever shows up. Working on building out the demo environment that I plan to construct live on stream.

Build
Building

Reunion website & this site

Working on a reunion website — details kept close for now. Also building out jalyahs.net, which is where most of the creative energy has been landing lately.

Running a home lab, learning DaVinci Resolve, planning to purchase. The demo environment build for the Night Shift stream is still in motion.

Read / Think
Always

Books, politics, paying attention

Reading and listening constantly — books, audiobooks, whatever I can get through. Politically engaged, attending No Kings marches. Trying to stay informed without losing my mind.

This site
Building

Building out jalyahs.net

Migrated off WordPress onto a static site — cleaner, faster, mine. Adding pages as things become real enough to put on the internet. You're looking at one of them.

This is a Now page — a single page that reflects what I'm focused on at this point in time. Updated whenever things shift. No schedule, no pressure.