I hate to be a sourpuss, but I find this New Year’s stuff to be kind of silly. Especially since all of the evidence from my perspective suggests that the global population will drop by 1% thanks to various violent conflicts and religion-knows-what else.

Between that knowledge and the fact that I have a cold, I have no reason to celebrate, and there is nothing ‘happy’ about it that I can find.

Hopefully everyone who celebrated Christmas Day today had a decent one. And I hope that those who celebrate Christmas Day on the 7th of January enjoy it too.

My Christmas Tree for 2025. I don’t think I can cram any more ornaments on that thing now!

I’m snowed in for today; been trying to keep myself busy with jar candle making and other stuff, but it feels like a dull day, all things being considered.

My Halloween tree for 2025.

I think I have had one of the most stressful Saturday evenings of my life so far, but the big thing was I helped my uncle up after he suffered a fall. And save for some bloody fingers, he is doing OK.

I got word from Facebook that human civilization is expected to implode by the 2040s, according to an MIT supercomputer simulation. It makes me question why I was even allowed to live, knowing that my own predictions regarding the collapse of human civilization coincides with my own beliefs/theories, and therefore rendering my generation as the last to see old age (if we are lucky).

It’s dawning on me that I don’t process caffeine as efficiently as I once did. It may be the root of my sleeping problems, especially after longs days at work.

A true gem in the Iowa City area: Dane’s Dairy, an independently-owned ice cream shop since 1960.

I don’t believe that I will ever lose my keys now with this key chain setup.