2025 Summary: Not Dead Yet
NYE was excellent, spent at a barbecue and board gaming with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rdm, leecetheartist and the usual suspects, safely out of earshot of the NY concert and fireworks next to my place. We played Falling Towers [is that the right name?] Squishing of magician students under towers and extraction of their precious bodily fluids]. Also Vantage, which I think I understand a bit better now.
I got to sleep about 3 am, so today have been semi-conscious. Managed the parental wrangling but since M was out of hearing aid batteries, communication was limited. A friend of M's rang me up because she hadn't answered calls, waking me up from another doze. He tried to get me to use words but that wasn't a huge success.
I posted a brief summary of last year to Facebook, so here's a copy of it. I'm sure everyone here knows all this.
I was made redundant just before Xmas 2024. 2025 was my first year of retirement from the gulag, as a victim of the "AI plague."
Lease terminated, had to move. Found apartment in Claremont for very reasonable rent. I think this is my only critical success roll for
the year.
Did some work as a TV extra, which was a lot of fun and I hope to do some more.
No travel. No spare $, and I'm carer for my mother [almost 95] so I think this year will be a rinse and repeat in that respect.
No publications this year, but still writing, a novel about a Western Australian zombie apocalypse, which begins in the United States. [Otherwise this post is intentionally politics-free].
Not dead yet.
rdm, leecetheartist and the usual suspects, safely out of earshot of the NY concert and fireworks next to my place. We played Falling Towers [is that the right name?] Squishing of magician students under towers and extraction of their precious bodily fluids]. Also Vantage, which I think I understand a bit better now.I got to sleep about 3 am, so today have been semi-conscious. Managed the parental wrangling but since M was out of hearing aid batteries, communication was limited. A friend of M's rang me up because she hadn't answered calls, waking me up from another doze. He tried to get me to use words but that wasn't a huge success.
I posted a brief summary of last year to Facebook, so here's a copy of it. I'm sure everyone here knows all this.
I was made redundant just before Xmas 2024. 2025 was my first year of retirement from the gulag, as a victim of the "AI plague."
Lease terminated, had to move. Found apartment in Claremont for very reasonable rent. I think this is my only critical success roll for
the year.
Did some work as a TV extra, which was a lot of fun and I hope to do some more.
No travel. No spare $, and I'm carer for my mother [almost 95] so I think this year will be a rinse and repeat in that respect.
No publications this year, but still writing, a novel about a Western Australian zombie apocalypse, which begins in the United States. [Otherwise this post is intentionally politics-free].
Not dead yet.