Hopefully putting myself out there more. I have a spinning and weaving guild that I've joined, but I've been too burnt out to go to any of the meetings. 😓
I hope that orange bastard Trump goes to prison or dies in 2024. I prefer prison because he needs to pay for his crimes, but dead is good too. The only thing is it would have to be a really dumb accident out in public so there wouldn’t be any conspiracy theories. Maybe he could fall off the stairs while getting off his plane and crack his skull on the tarmac.
People debate whether we landed on the moon - one of the wisest watched televised events ever. I would be surprised if a Livestream of him doing just that would be enough to avoid dozens of conspiracy theories.
A miracle keeping the orange fuhrer out of politics and news, perhaps a conviction with actual time to be served. I know, I’m calling for a miracle as I said.
Pretty much all the major brands are reportedly going to make laptop models with the Snapdragon X Elite chip, so any one of those really. I'm probably going to buy a Lenovo one since they have a good track record.
I’m curious to see how this pans out when they start to ship. The hardware looks really promising, but I’m curious about the rollout for software support.
I’m excited to see real benchmarks from shipping laptops with off-the-shelf software.
But nobody on the software side will take porting to arm seriously if the hardware doesn't exist. Some essentials like browsers and the adobe suite got ported to arm already but as soon as there's an actual audience lots more people will bother putting out arm builds.
I’m really excited to start working with the engineers at work to learn how to rework the broken boards that go in the products we produce. I don’t know much about electronics and I’ve certainly never been to college, but I’ve apparently displayed an aptitude for understanding stuff so they wanna work with me to get the ball rolling. They’ve been able to convince management that my bench in the RMA department needs all the equipment a rework station should have. It’s all super exciting and I can’t wait to start.
Honestly, nothing really. It feels like each year more fucked up things are happening, so I lost the positivity I had for the upcoming years.
Don't get me wrong I am in a good place personally, but with all the stuff going on in the world it sometimes feel hard to believe it's gonna get better any time soon.
Same - I’m a natural optimist and live a good life. But I can’t see any solutions for the horrors of the world. I only see new disasters brewing up, and being backed by more and more people.
But I’m finally starting in my new position at work next year and that good for me.
Same. I only have the ability to directly control a few things in my life and the rest is just constantly getting worse thanks to the actions of other people. Optimistic for me is just being able to tread water at this point and I'm not optimistic.
Some of the 2020 and 2021 base models (key ignition) are still affected. It's only on the 2022+ models where all trims have immobilizers as standard. Really dumb move by Hyundai/Kia to save a couple of bucks per vehicle. I otherwise love my car, but this issue and the "solution" they put out made sure I will never buy from them again.
I got tired of jumping around between streaming services to get deals and save money. I noticed that a couple major music streamers seemed to collude to raise rates at the same time, and I'm tired of that. I'm setting up my Plex server with some Black Friday deals and am looking forward to enjoying having that at my disposal.
Getting back surgery (and fixing the problem, instead of, like, not ever being able to walk again). Then getting the green light at work so I can start work on a project I've proposed. And lastly, getting one of my side projects past the finish line.
I'm starting a new job in January, which will give me financial stability and job security for the first time in years. It means I can go back to University and pursue my dream of becoming a zoologist, heck I'll even be able to take a holiday with my girlfriend without worrying about rent!
Got a milestone birthday coming up but not sure what to do for it, once I have plans that'll be something exciting.
I've been working on learning gamedev as a hobby for a couple years and hope to release my first proper actual commercial game next year too which is pretty cool.
No holidays planned as of yet but we normally do that over the Christmas hols.
I'm going to 36 weeks of military training that will also be a substantial pay cut from my civilian career, but worth it in the long run as it'll be the necessary experience to switch my civilian career to my field of interest. Not looking forward to the training, but I'll be in such a better spot once I'm finished. Looking forward to that!
Here's one little thing that's helped me a tad. I make my bed every day, first thing in the morning. It feels good to start the day out with at least one thing just done and in its place.
Hopefully my garage/addition will be built next year and I can finally start working on cars indoors again. I'm turning 40 next year, not looking forward to that so I may not even have a party. Hopefully going to find different employment again, I have an interview on Monday for something I'm far from qualified for but I'm giving it a shot anyway, if it doesn't pan out I'm trying to take the test for an emergency dispatcher position that starts in January and if I have the fortitude I might try to get in to nursing school but I'm on the fence about that.
I have a newborn niece by my brother-in-law. His fiancee also has two young boys from a previous marriage. I am looking forward to opportunities to build my relationship as an uncle with the boys. My brother and husband both don't want kids, so it sounds like this will be the only real chance to have a close family relationship with Generation Alpha.
Interestingly, they are into a lot of the card games that were popular when I was a kid like Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and D & D. We are thinking about giving them a trip to a game shop for Christmas and some money for games.
I'm gonna play a new campaign in D&D. And I DM a different one, where I am going to play with some homebrew stuff I made up myself, so I'm really hyped for that!
I initially misread this as 2014 and I am actually surprised I was a bit excited. Like if the past decade was a coma dream or something, wow that would have been ideal. Ah. Anyway.
I’m looking forward to physical therapy rehab in the spring, maybe feeling good and healthy again. And then seeing Taylor Swift in Vienna in late summer. Hopefully by then, Trump is either dead or in prison. Hopefully prison first.