Back to the grind in 2025
Begin as You Mean to Continue
I’ve set up my five guideposts for the year (part of a process I outline in my book, Rise to the Task) and the projects that fall under them. It gives me a flexible structure to work with, like a bamboo frame, and helps me keep my goals in mind across multiple spheres such as my health, my mental health, my financial well-being, and my aspirations.
This year, 2025, is all about doubling down on what I know equals “success” for me across all those metrics: writing fiction.
I love it, and it loves me. Yet, I have repeatedly shoved it to the bottom because of the old insecurities and fears of my youth, which no amount of schedules on the calendar can fix. But this year, 2025, is all about “beginning as I mean to continue” which is WRITING.
Fear? Check. Insecurity? Check. Determination? Check! Ambition? CHECK! COURAGE? CHECK!!!!!
Here. WE. GOOOOOOOOOOO!
Weekly Roundup
Back in the saddle! Whoop!
Updated the Bibliotheca with my plans for more stories in 2025! What’s new, what’s on deck, and something old(er) to get you by.
“Routines, Patterns, or Habits?” Back on my productivity bullshit with the first of a three-part series on how to successfully incorporate new habits into your life! Fitting for January, yes?
An Ode to the Perseverance of the New College Community over on the 4Winds blog, all about my feels regarding the second anniversary of the conservative takeover of my alma mater by right-wing jackasses.
The Skeptic’s Inspirational has officially launched! Daily bites of motivation, inspiration, and reflections suitable for everyone, no matter your spiritual or philosophical approach to life.
The Bastards of Yumeng continues with Chapter 39! Wow. Thirty-nine chapters? It’s up over 70k words, and so it’s officially not a one-shot anymore I guess ah ha ha ha. (This fanfiction is a WIP and is in the 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) / 魔道祖师-墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī fandom, free to read over on AO3!)
THROWBACK!
Something even further back in time, when LLMs had just broken the geek-containment field and people were all agog…which they still are, to be honest. As with most of my discussions about A.I., this is not specifically pro or con; instead, I talk about something that happened in my (misspent!) youth that gives me insight in how these newer (but not unexpected) technologies will impact people like you and me.
It’s a Keely-Boo World
The news is not great, but also not terrible, in the world of Keely-Boo. She’s had a good month, but a few days ago blood showed up in her urine again. *sigh* Well, good news is that I already have a vet appointment on the books this week, as the vet wanted to bring her in for x-rays if the incontinence continued. Given that it never stopped, yeah, time for more tests.
Her health otherwise is good, with no indications of cancer or parasites or any of that kind of ugliness. Might be bladder stones, might be a bad diet.
Until we know for sure, here is a photo taken this past weekend of Keely out in the driveway sans diaper, wondering what I’m up to! (You’d never know that I brush her out almost every day! Damn shaggy fur! LOL!)
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