Hey, 2024! No promises.

The change of a digit in my calendar doesn't mean much to me. I have plans and hopes for the coming months anyway and I'm not gonna turn them into New Year resolutions.

I've had to pause so many plans for the past few months because of life and finances. There's just not been room for much. Some of that pressure is easing in the near future, thankfully, which will hopefully give me the opportunity to follow through on some things.

First of all I really want to get back to running. I miss it fiercely and am hoping to find the energy for it again.

In terms of finances I want to start contributing to projects and creators more. I currently put aside a bit of money for the OpenTTD project each month and I'm a member of one youtuber's community. But I really enjoy quite a few youtubers regularly and I want to help them out, too. While I'll never join every patreon there is I'll probably join a couple at least, and I'm thinking of getting Youtube Premium just because I know that it pays out a lot more to creators than just ads.

Speaking of OpenTTD I want to play it more than I've done lately. It's by far the best computer game of all time, after all. And I want to realise the plan I've had for a dedicated 24/7 OpenTTD server I've had for a long time. I already have all the hardware lying around. I just need to do some fiddling with the software config, really.

The most important thing is family, of course. I've been divorced for over a year now, but so much has happened in that time that I can't really say my new life has settled yet. There are still things to work out around what living arrangements are best for the kiddos, but at least our communication and cooperation around that works pretty well.

The next few months are by no means a new start or a pivoting point. Life continues on its merry path and keeps changing. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Stability isn't something I expect to fully have for quite some time, if ever again. But I believe I'm learning to navigate the currents a little better each day.

-- CC0 ew0k, 2023-12-31