---
title: "Notes on 2025W01"
slug: weeknotes-2025w01
date: 2025-01-05T12:00:00-08:00
categories: weeknotes
tags:
  - Weeknotes
  - Holidays
  - Christmas
  - Massachusetts
  - New Years
  - Friends
---

The first week of 2025 and I am still thoroughly in vacation mode. Let me the
one millionth person to say: Happy New Year, Feliz Año Nuevo, and
<ruby>あけましておめでとう<rt>akemashite omedetou</rt></ruby>.

{{< tess >}} and I returned from our [holiday trip to Massachusetts][ma] with
Erin. We had a great time visiting Tess' family. Erin and I were both excited to
see a little snow too.

We spent New Years with some close friends eating caviar and amazing roast beef,
and playing [Sorry!][sorry] with the girls. In the morning, we went over to
some other friends' place for brunch.

The remainder of the week, an attempt was made to relax, but got hung up dealing
with a case of head lice, moving logistics, and `some other things`.

Despite all that, I played a lot of [Caves of Qud][qud].

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I published some more catch-up posts and photos for 2024:

* [Kona]({{< ref "/photos/2024/kona-hawaii" >}}) (photo)
* [No Matter The Rubble]({{< ref "/photos/2024/no-matter" >}}) (photo)
* [Christmas][ma]

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I added my [StoryGraph][storygraph] profile to my [Where Am I]({{< ref
"/about/where-am-i" >}}) page. Find me there if you want to see what I'm
reading.

---

And now, some links:

* [modernity is stupid][modernity] is a great rant about technology, politics, and the state
of world. I read it a few weeks ago but forgot to share it.
* [An Unreasonable Amount of Time][unreasonable] by Allen Pike, suggesting that
magic, in the Penn and Teller sense, is simply devoting far more time to
something than most other people would consider reasonable.

[ma]: {{< ref "/blog/2024/christmas-in-massachusetts" >}}
[qud]: {{< ref "/blog/2025/qud" >}}
[modernity]: https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity
[sorry]: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/154343/sorry-with-fire-and-ice-power-ups
[storygraph]: https://thestorygraph.com
[unreasonable]: https://allenpike.com/2024/an-unreasonable-amount-of-time
