2025

The new year brings with it resolutions typically.

I guess I have to make some as well.

I’ve not written regularly, either here or elsewhere. I’ve been too preoccupied with programming. I’ve been eating poorly.

I had a bit of a revelation over the past month. I had a pile of vacation time I had to burn or lose last year. So I took off the time between November 26th and today, January 1st, 2025. It’s a good problem to have. I painted a room and I mostly built an arcade cabinet to put into my Florida Room.

I got a table saw and a dust collector for the shop. Oh, I cleaned up the basement/garage and built a shop. There’s also a jointer/planer on order that should arrive at some point in the near future.

But all this is to say that I did a lot of non-programming things on my break, and I think I’m better off because of it. I did more reading last year than I did in many other years recently.

All told, I think my resolution is that I need to keep doing that more, and make sure I don’t burn out on work and programming. (Not that I don’t love programming!)

I also think it would be healthy to get back to writing here. For a long while it was every day. And I think it would be nice to get back on that cadence.