Notes on 2025W01

The first week of 2025 and I am still thoroughly in vacation mode. Let me the one millionth person to say: Happy New Year, Feliz Año Nuevo, and あけましておめでとうakemashite omedetou.

Tess and I returned from our holiday trip to Massachusetts with Erin. We had a great time visiting Tess’ family. Erin and I were both excited to see a little snow too.

We spent New Years with some close friends eating caviar and amazing roast beef, and playing Sorry! with the girls. In the morning, we went over to some other friends’ place for brunch.

The remainder of the week, an attempt was made to relax, but got hung up dealing with a case of head lice, moving logistics, and some other things.

Despite all that, I played a lot of Caves of Qud.

I published some more catch-up posts and photos for 2024:

I added my StoryGraph profile to my Where Am I page. Find me there if you want to see what I’m reading.

And now, some links:

modernity is stupid is a great rant about technology, politics, and the state of world. I read it a few weeks ago but forgot to share it.
An Unreasonable Amount of Time by Allen Pike, suggesting that magic, in the Penn and Teller sense, is simply devoting far more time to something than most other people would consider reasonable.