Be happy, despite whatever others tell you or talk about in 2025. You have a choice when it comes to doomscrollling.

What was the funniest book you read in 2025? Was it intentionally funny, or so bad you had to laugh? #books

“The future isn’t what you want it to be. It’s what we made it.” — Harry Seldon

Vicious Rumor: Apple to drop XCode in 2025 in favor of a new development paradigm. #apple #programming

Sometimes, you have to do the wrong thing to know what’s right. — ancient proverb I just made up

Back in my day people worried about whether a phone call was a toll call or a long-distance one. Sometimes, we worried about whether we had a nickel for the phone booth (think Photo Booth, but with a phone). Now, we just dial whatever we feel like or text. #progress (?)

Plan for 2025: — Improve my handwriting so that the SuperNote Manta recognition works consistently. I think it’s the best with my chicken scratch. The key to handwriting recognition is to train yourself to write the way the engine expects, not the other way around. #supernote #handwriting

How were you pleasantly surprised by 2024?

“He slammed his fist against the table. It hit hard, bounced, rolled onto the floor and onto the sleeping cat who promptly batted it behind the fridge with all of his other body parts and various dust bunnies.” #writing #throwawayline

“I don’t write life. I write fiction. Life is to be lived, not read.” #writing #life

“Live to your strengths.” #life

Envy is just a form of jealousy. Who are you jealous of? The rich, powerful, or the celebrities? Jealousy is a form of self-deprecation and degradation. You are complete as you are. You can be better, without using those you are jealous of as role models. #life

“He stood around, waiting for life to drive by. That’s what it did. He stood wondering why it hadn’t stopped and passed him by.” #writing #2024

Let go of the things that don’t matter. There are no people who don’t matter. #life #success

My plan for 2025: — Be a better human.

Stop making the same promises/resolutions you make every year but never accomplish. Accept that if you were going to do it, you would have done it by now. Focus on what you know will achieve and on improving what you can. #life #newyear #resolutions

What are you doing to celebrate? Anything? I plan on having a glass of Prosecco and play some Animal Crossing.

Time to update my To Not Do list for 2025.

Happy Hogmanay to all!

Good morning everyone. Happy New Year to the other side of the planet! I hope everyone has a safe, peaceful, and happy year. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Make friends, not fear. #life #success

What will you miss most about 2024? Me? Being as old as I am.

“Everyone is old enough to die. There is no such thing as someone being ‘too young to die’. We die when we die. Whether a single person or an entire country, death doesn’t value any life more than any other. After all, that young person may have grown up to be a total shit.” #writing

I could probably pump out the last 5K words tomorrow, but I don’t want to kill myself on New Year’s Eve, so I’ll write the usual 2.5K a day and finish on the first. #writing #newyearseve