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New Year’s Day 2025

If you missed the ball drop or all the fireworks, today is New Year’s Day. Pass the pork & sauerkraut and let’s have a holiday.

👉🏻 Turn The Page 📖

Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sorry, just had to throw that in there. We’ve got a rather significant page turning as we jump from 2024 to 2025.

We’ll be getting a new administration here in the US. With any luck, Canada will get Pierre Pollievre.

Not sure who else’s deck is shuffling, but there seems to be a trend of common sense, conservative parties taking hold throughout the world.

Don’t worry, despite the obvious mandate, I’m sure Congress will find a way to F it up like they did in 2016 and feel ever so justified for having gotten in the way.

AI is improving at a dizzying pace. Maybe we’ll get lucky and ASI will occur and we can get a computer-run government like Gil Gerard’s Buck Rogers encountered in New Chicago.

Things are never as good as they have the potential to be. We won’t have the best case scenarios that people fantasize about, but it will still be better than it’s been under Admin46.

2024 generally sucked, so I’m glad to be rid of it.

🍾 Pomp & Circumstance 🎉

Incredible Drone Display is World’s Biggest Ever – Guinness World Records

An improvement in sky shows is the invention of drone swarms. Pyrotechnics are still awesome and everybody loves a good fireworks show, but drone shows are really cool.

Also, it’s time for resolutions and big plans in the new year. I usually don’t, but I have a few in mind that I mentioned in the previous post.

I need to get a better work / life balance. I need to continue my A1C diet. I need to get out and walk around more. Can I guarantee I’ll do any of it? Probably not, but I will be trying.

U2 – New Year’s Day (Lyrics)

Naturally, I can’t end this segment without showing you a decent fireworks show. Who puts on a more spectacular show than the House of Mouse?

They may have contracted the Woke Mind Virus, but economic necessity may be the innoculation this revered American institution needs to get back to the business of being fun like they used to be.

Magic Kingdom New Years Eve 2024 Fireworks – Fantasy in the Sky Full Show in 4K | Walt Disney World

🎇 Things That Have Never Been 🌟

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Whelp, I still haven’t finished The Lights of Pine Hollow, so I’m feverishly banging out episodes to keep up with the passing Days of Christmas. Epiphany is coming, so I need to put a bow on this year’s tale and get it formatted for paperback sales.

As for what happens after I’m done all that, I need a rest.

I don’t think it will be all of January like it was last year. That was counterproductive and slightly annoying. Maybe a week or two will do.

I’m itching to get back to my main project and I’ve also been putting some preliminary work on the world-building for Tales Of Olde Auringia.

But, I’m still busy with the Holiday Season Serial Romance, so I need to stop typing this and start typing that.