Let me tell you something random about me today that came up recently but that I don't recall ever discussing with anyone outside of my family before ( Read more... )

While I've barely posted anything on here last year (at this point there are still more posts from 2015 on the blog's front page than posts from 2016), I do want to keep up the tradition of my annual "year in review" post. Time for those forty questions!

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The time has come! I've actually been looking forward to making this post because 2015 has been an interesting and overall positive year for me.

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At the risk of sounding insensitive for saying this right after a post about an actual living being dying: My watch also died this week, and this made me sad ( Read more... )

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Time for my annual year in review! I can't believe I've been doing this since 2005 (though I missed a couple of years). Let this be the year when I finally replace some of the questions that never lead to any interesting answers with something better.

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While walking to and home from work today, it felt like I got my first taste of autumn. While the weather was still nice and sunny, there was a certain chill in the air, and it seemed as if the sun had (very suddenly) moved in such a way that I found myself in the shade in places where I used to get warmed by sunbeams on my way ( Read more... )

Something interesting happened today. Or rather, something very mundane happened today that was nonetheless meaningful to me. I left the house in shorts for the first time in about ten years ( Read more... )

I've been asked to come in a bit later than my intended usual starting time on my first day, presumably because they need to make some preparations for me and don't want me to sit around staring into space until everything's ready, so I got a bit of time to write this morning. And I realised that I missed an anniversary of sorts earlier this month ( Read more... )

I didn't feel like doing my annual year in review last year, and maybe that should have been a warning sign. I later wrote about not having anything to talk about, but in hindsight I think that it was more of a case of there being things that I didn't want to talk about, mostly because I didn't even want to think about them myself. This year, I ( Read more... )