I can’t even remember the last time I did bullets…
- Reader, I apologize. I haven’t really been keeping you up to date.
- I’m not going to really get into a lot of detail today, tho.
- But maybe some broad strokes.
- 2023 was basically a continuation of 2020.
- 2020 Wrapped:
- Bought a house
- Decided (with Ellen, of course) to (at least stop trying not) to have a kid
- Other stuff you’ve probably heard of. It’s not over.
- About the house…
- It turned out 2021 was a terrible year to get anyone to help you fix up a house.
- 2022 wasn’t much better, but we were able to engage a buider and, by the end of the year, gut the place, cleaning up the mould (most of which we knew about when we bought) and the mouse droppings (which we didn’t).
- So 2023 was spent getting a design to the point where we could submit a building permit and finding people and materials to do the job of giving us a place we can actually live.
- 2024 will, with any luck at all, be the year my wife and son and I will live together in our own house.
- We are, of course, blessed to have a place to live. And especially to own a house. And to be able to even attempt all of this. It’s not been easy.
- But, you know, I sold my house in 2016. (That’s a blog post I wrote for friends and family at the time. I decided to unprotect it for context-related linking). It’ll have been an eight year journey to moving into this house.
- About the kid…
- He’s an absolute, goddamn delight. And exhausting. But utterly delightful.
- Not sure what more to say.
- Work’s fine.
- Doctor Who is back.
- I played a lot of Picross. And Spider Solitaire. And Sudoku apps.
- And Pokemon Go.
- You should really listen to my Christmas mixtape. It’s good, I promise.
- Happy New Year.
