Speellng.

Self-sabotage. Procrastination. Rotting in bed.

The way the world is going right now? …survival.

Lifting weights, shooting, weighing less.

lowering my expectations

hopefully, pretending to be straight or asexual; and being able to be happy without friends, as these will be needed survival skills

Protecting my privacy. I am gender nonconforming and on HRT. So with the current political atmosphere and the fact that it has enabled and encouraged hate speech and attacks, I'll new to be more careful on platforms that my identity is more prevalent.

I'm not going to hide, as I'm not hiding by posting here. But I'm going to remove my data from corporate platforms that have connections to law enforcement and have poor security that insist on keeping my personal details. Can't trust the federal government or any company, starting next year if the Project 2025 or Trump's plan are truly put in place.

Making burritos. I've taken to adding in a bit of salsa and sour cream, and then finishing it in the oven with a layer of cheese on top and drizzling some hot sauce afterwards. I'm currently figuring out side dishes to go alongside them, and then i'll move onto the next dish that catches my attention.

update: oven broke lol

Aiming.

I started learning how to make karaoke videos. Because the songs I like to sing are not readily available in karaoke format on YouTube.

I made a channel for it and everything 😉 I'm getting ready to publish my 2nd video very soon.

My goal is to try to do 1 song per month at a minimum. But, I do also have a day job and life stuff to juggle. So the YouTube channel is just a hobby.

Legal writing & holding local public officials accountable fo bad actions.

Purescript, Haskell, Functional Reactive Programming, Nix, KiCAD, and beating off.

Making it to the end of the year will be a feat in itself

Me

Using a guillotine

gunsmithing and 3d printing (just check my post history)

Basic music theory and guitar playing.

Also, learning how to use an Altair 8800 clone

Exobiology in Elite: Dangerous. Just started last night and is already making some progress.

Running, hopefully.

I switched to arch on my main PC, so probably better at managing Linux. Ramping up my road biking workouts, so I'll probably be faster (I normally do a 500mi riding event from Christmas eve to new years and hoping to crush that this year).

Flute! I started learning it last December, it's been nearly a year and I've learned SO much. Going to keep at it and get even better!

Deno2 and typescript. For no particular reason the release of Deno2 has prompted me to build a web app in my spare time. I mostly a sysadmin, I haven't written anything but APIs and utility scripts for at least 5 years.

Reading japanese, living life. Hopefuly I want to be better at overcoming my trauma but that outcome is kinda independed of my actions towards that.

Software development. I'm still not very good, but I'm better than I was at the start of the year.

Singing

Oh no is it that time of that year already?!

Maybe I should do the things I'm planning to do all year.

Swimming, I used to swim in high school but I've been out of practice for a couple decades, I got back in the pool a couple of weeks ago and struggled to swim 500 yards which is something I used to do in 6 minutes so I've been going a few times a week and pushed myself to 600 yards the last few sessions, anyway I want to try for 1000 yards by the end of the year.

Crying

• Setting and enforcing boundaries around holidays.
• Sticking to a consistent sleeping schedule.
• Exercising most days than not.
• Listen to me first and keep tuning out all outside noise.
• Managing things step by step in the best way circumnstances allow.

I want to get better at deeply understanding people, which probably starts with getting better at listening

Traditional wetshaving

Art.