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Thu Jan 1 10:00:01 UTC 2026
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Slept from three to nine.
Partly cloudy until late afternoon, then cloudy with a chance of flurries in the late afternoon.
Highs around 20.
West winds 5 to 15 mph.
Wind chill readings 5 below to 5 above zero.
On vacation.
# To do
* [x] review 2025 for myself
* [ ] Ask if Dr. Lipson takes my new health insurance (Priority Health). If so, schedule appointment?
* [ ] set 401K contribution (Kathy Suma says that changing the contribution amount in Vanguard will fix it. I changed it Dec 29.)
Read more of The Devils.
Nap in the late afternoon.
2025:
* Read sixty-four books, including The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series, Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes series, Milton Mayer's they Thought They Were Free, Cory Doctorow's Enshittification, and Uketsu's Strange Houses.
* Played twenty-one sessions of D&D (and that doesn't count a few Call of Cthulhu sessions).
* Grew tomato plants from seed, though I started them too late in the year to reap more than a new tomatoes.
* Friendship with Ed finally broke down over politics. He even dropped out of the D&D game.
* Got laid off from the Forest Service CTO job by DOGE.
* Spent several months job hunting. Interview included the State of Michigan, DTE, and (most interestingly) the Detroit Institute of Arts. I was bummed not to the get IT director job at the DIA.
* Got rehired for the Forest Service working on an application for the nurseries and seed extractories.
* Bought a new 34-inch 4K monitor.
Servings: grains 4/4, vegetables+fruit 4/5, dairy+meat 4/4, nuts+beans 0.5/0.5
Brunch: lebneh with flatbread
Lunch: potato chips
Dinner: strawberries, Japanese curry
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