The final gemlog for the year, and the first for the new one.
It turns out that I accidentally labelled two entries as November, one done in late October in anticipation for the month, and one in early December to try and patch up a missing entry for the month. It seems like in the intervening weeks I have forgotten I have written one of them. Whoops.
I think I will fix this later.
Just six or seven pages have been made during this month, which is disappointing but it's the best I can do with the resources I have on hand. It's not really been a good month in general for this, and I am basically treading the metaphorical water to get myself going in all ends.
During the Christmas holiday I managed to make a small push but I didn't go very far as I don't really want to push too much. Ultimately though creative-wise I managed to get what I wanted to do during that time so there's that.
The end-of-year slump is in so there's not very much that I have to do, though I should hide that a little better as I got caught out idling at work, which is never a good thing. I don't expect things to pick up any more than it is now as we are now in the twilight zone between the ordinary solar new year and the lunar new year.
It's fine. The eczema got infected again then nothing. My weight continues to go up but I'm controlling it starting this year with a view of undoing all that weight gain within about half a year.
Mental health remains an issue. I really need a longer period off, but then I worry that...
... this will become the primary focus and I never really get to "relax".
This is ongoing but it's not very big. Mostly it's just me getting advice and then putting off executing them. I will get to them at some point, honest.
I haven't written much from the previous days, but have some I prepared earlier and I want to share again:
A little thing that I have written about my handwritten journals. I am happy to say that I am satisfied with this and will extend it further in the future. Handwriting things have always been a big part of me and I have made the jump to using paper journals just because my original org-mode setup is getting a bit stale and I want to do something a bit more.
A proposal for a new script for a language I speak. I have some opinions on it. This has been a real test of Gemtext as it uses so many tables and Unicode that rendering is always going to be awkward. I wanted also to work on some fixes so I haven't uploaded it to Antenna just yet.
Yeah, that's always been a thing. I've been getting that "tang ping" vibe recently, where you just do the minimum to keep your current lifestyle going and refuse to go further into careers. That's all well and good but while my system_2 wants to go beyond my system_1 seems not to, and this frustrates me somehow.
I am now using my paper journal to nudge me in the proper direction. A list of 100 things to do in that journal is fortuitous and I am using it to motivate myself. And I am writing this to tell you about it. Hopefully this all works.