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First off, I loved Far Cry 5. I thought it was a fantastic game and I loved the open world environment and how beautiful the world looked. It really felt like you were in Montana. The plot was captivating and the battles were fun. I rated it five stars for a reason. This post will contain spoilers to the game, so be warned.

January was a cold month. It's been a while since it's been this cold for this long. We also got more snow than we have in years past. Tess loved the initial snow, which is always cute. Other than that, it was mostly a quiet month.

I mentioned in my last week notes that I went to a Menzingers concert in Allentown on Saturday. What I didn't mention and what I have been trying to process is that during the show there was an incident prior to The Menzingers coming on that stood out to me. A fucking nazi asshole came out and started giving the nazi salute. I still sometimes can't believe I witnessed that.

For a first-world problem, this is probably pretty up there, but I have a small complaint about Apple Mail.

Ever since the end of 2015, my blog has been running on some form of static site generator. First it was Jekyll, then Next.js, now I'm running 11ty and I can't see myself ever going back to something like WordPress, Ghost, or some other content management system (CMS) based on a database. Writing in markdown is the way to go for my needs.

I recently listened to the audiobook version of Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America by Will Bardenwerper. It's a look at primarily the Batavia Muckdogs, a small town baseball team in Batavia, New York. It's a book about baseball as much as it is about small town America and what minor league sports can mean to a community.

I've had an idea for my next side project for a little while now. I'll share more in a little bit, but I wanted to just muse a little bit about building it and what platform I would like to use.

For Christmas I got the first three books of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. I recently started reading the first book, Children of Time. It made me think about how I go into a brand new book or even a series.

Holy crow did I read a lot this past year. Between the audiobooks and the actual books, I managed 67 books read which is a new record for me.

I didn't play as much as I hoped, but still got some in.

Recently Grok, Elon Musk's AI agent extraordinaire has been in the news for allowing people to produce child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This should be a huge story, but instead, the mainstream media is making a mockery of itself bending over backwards to either ignore it or completely miscategorizing what is happening.

It was a lighter year for movies in 2025. We watched more TV than movies this year.