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title: "Notes on 2025W01"
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slug: weeknotes-2025w01
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date: 2025-01-05T12:00:00-08:00
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categories: weeknotes
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tags:
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  - Weeknotes
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  - Holidays
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  - Christmas
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  - Massachusetts
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  - New Years
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  - Friends
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The first week of 2025 and I am still thoroughly in vacation mode. Let me the
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one millionth person to say: Happy New Year, Feliz Año Nuevo, and
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<ruby>あけましておめでとう<rt>akemashite omedetou</rt></ruby>.
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{{< tess >}} and I returned from our [holiday trip to Massachusetts][ma] with
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Erin. We had a great time visiting Tess' family. Erin and I were both excited to
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see a little snow too.
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We spent New Years with some close friends eating caviar and amazing roast beef,
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and playing [Sorry!][sorry] with the girls. In the morning, we went over to
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some other friends' place for brunch.
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The remainder of the week, an attempt was made to relax, but got hung up dealing
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with a case of head lice, moving logistics, and `some other things`.
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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:
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* [Kona]({{< ref "/photos/2024/kona-hawaii" >}}) (photo)
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* [No Matter The Rubble]({{< ref "/photos/2024/no-matter" >}}) (photo)
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* [Christmas][ma]
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I added my [StoryGraph][storygraph] profile to my [Where Am I]({{< ref
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"/about/where-am-i" >}}) page. Find me there if you want to see what I'm
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reading.
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And now, some links:
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* [modernity is stupid][modernity] is a great rant about technology, politics, and the state
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of world. I read it a few weeks ago but forgot to share it.
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* [An Unreasonable Amount of Time][unreasonable] by Allen Pike, suggesting that
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magic, in the Penn and Teller sense, is simply devoting far more time to
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something than most other people would consider reasonable.
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[ma]: {{< ref "/blog/2024/christmas-in-massachusetts" >}}
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[qud]: {{< ref "/blog/2025/qud" >}}
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[modernity]: https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity
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[sorry]: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/154343/sorry-with-fire-and-ice-power-ups
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[storygraph]: https://thestorygraph.com
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[unreasonable]: https://allenpike.com/2024/an-unreasonable-amount-of-time
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