Welcome to 2026

By fate

Despite my best intentions for 2025, most of my goals for the year weren’t really executed upon. This year, my work-life balance has been a bit out of whack. Large work projects distract from things that matter at home and make it difficult to concentrate on personal projects with little energy left over for hobbies. Adding in the continual flood of near-existential crisis in about every aspect of life right now – and progress on any sort of “goal” metric slows down. I found a local club to engage with and have largely switched back to Linux for day-to-day computing. Those are huge wins, but many of the other 2025 goals were partially met at best.

I’ve kept this blog mostly out of a sense of tradition and belief that the internet should have content from individuals. It’s tough, with AI swooping in and gobbling it all up into the LLM machines. I’m staying here, mostly because I believe that little blog websites and organic social networking outside the algorithmic fueled insanity of the major sites are critical to open communication and human connection.

At this point, I’d usually break down into a big list of goals for 2026. This year, I’m going to keep it a bit lighter. Mostly, I’m giving a lot of thought on how to revitalize both this blog and connections to other blogs - so I’m going to shoot for something simple with just 3 goals.

  1. 4 posts this year reflecting personal progress and the goings on here. My hope is trying to make a bit of personal accountability and public reflection might help spurn some movement.
  2. Focus on building some physical things. One per quarter so I can talk about it. This might be a home improvement project or random maker style build.
  3. Build energy through accountability. The goal here is simple - just track my physical activity and excercise routines.

Stay sane out there, it’s getting tough.