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