Did not get ahead of my reading schedule, that’s for certain. The fact that I needed to get, and wear reading glasses put a major damper on my desire to read this year. Mostly because I don’t keep my glasses on me, but in my office. I need them for the reports, because 99% of that work comes off of an Excel spreadsheet, and while I am good at wearing them while working, I don’t feel like going downstairs to fetch them to read when on the main floor, or if I’m out & about. Definitely spent more time with YouTube, Reddit, and Threads this year, instead of reading books. It’s a weakness, I know. Should I ever need new lenses on the glasses I’m going while lense as readers. And not bifocals. I thought I might wear them all the time, so I gave myself that option to do so, but I don’t. Money well wasted at that point. Ha.
I did read six books cover to cover (so far) and two partial reads. I need books to be about 300 pages, and read quickly, without too much naming complexity in the characters. Also, I need to care what is going on, and for those two hold out books. I don’t give a shit. If I could swap these books for large print versions of themselves I might read more, because the text would be readable without glasses. I’m just lazy.
Did not go out to watch many movies at all this year. Nuremberg looks good, but I doubt I’ll get to it while it is in theaters. We had two new Predator films this year, and I have seen fifteen minutes of one (which I liked) but never went back because I forgot about it almost instantly. Not sure what that says.
I didn’t do as much wood working, sculpting, model building this year either. Played my guitar a little more. But the phone took up a lot of my time. The Xbox Series X ate up many hours with Diableo, Gears of War 4, and Goat Simulator. I didn’t do much of any creative writing at all either.
Chopped wood, and got back into chainsawing wood as a past time. Also spent two days a week this year climbing indoors, which was pretty awesome. Did a huge purge of the garage. Purged the house of my extraneous stuff. Got rid of lots of toys, and general junk. We donated coats and clothes by the garbage bag full. I have taken books, and sports equipment to the local charity shop as well. My closet is as thinned out as it has ever been. I did buy two pairs of work pants that I have worn religiously, instead of track pants, and sweats. I do still have an enormous collection of t-shirts, but with how quickly the armpits get plasticized by deodorant, I can’t have enough clean tees at the ready it seems.
We could probably pull a full jumbo garbage bag worth of clothing out of each child’s bedroom/closet, but that takes a lot of time, and considerable effort, and planning.
Been a weird year.
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