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2025 was one hell of a year.

Recently I finally got around to cancelling my subscription to Microsoft's Office 365. I had switched to LibreOffice and determined that there was no reason to keep Microsoft Office around anymore. It's led me to look into what software I subscribe to.

I just watched A House of Dynamite and oh man does it show the insanity of nuclear weapons.

Now that I'm using Linux Mint as my daily driver, I realize that I don't have an application lined up to use to handle organizing and processing my photos. This is going to be needed for my photography site.

I've mentioned before that I've been trying to purchase more music rather than relying on streaming services. Something I've started to wonder about is how my music purchases have changed over time.

For all who celebrate, I hope you have a safe and Merry Christmas.

I've been dual booting my desktop between Windows and Linux for a while. Despite this, more often than not I booted into Windows, primarily for gaming. It often didn't even matter though since I would still spend more time on my MacBook Pro as my primary machine. That hasn't been the case of late though. Enter Linux Mint.

This past year has been a doozy to put it mildly. The beginning of Trump's second term has been chaotic and cruel and has put me all too often in a bad place worried about the state of the world and the future.

One of the things I've mentioned over the last month or two is that I've struggled to stay in the fitness groove, especially when it comes to lifting. Some of this was caused by getting sick, but other times it was me just not wanting to lift, probably because it would be a legs day. I didn't necessarily revert to being lazy, often times I would skip legs day for a run instead. But in the end, the result was the same, I got out of my rhythm.

Every year now I've been posting a look back at the books, TV, movies, and video games I consumed the previous year. I find it a rather interesting exercise looking back at what I've read, watched, and played and thinking about what I really enjoyed and what I might not have.

I listen to a lot of podcasts from American Public Media. One of their podcasts is How We Survive, which focuses on climate change and how it affects us. I'm a little behind on it, but season 7 focused on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and I'd recommend it.

My formative years were in the mid-1990s. I remember my family's first Windows computer and us first connecting to the internet and World Wide Web. I remember the dial-up sounds, AOL, and a shared phone line causing many disconnections. I look back at those times with rose colored glasses. It was an amazing time, first seeing what the internet could do.