Whenever I use voice-lookup in my car it seems to just pick at random lol. I like AM for the reasons you listed but man does it make it hard to just find the music I have sometimes.

The important thing to understand about why woodworking is so soothing to me is that at work I make steel parts with 0.001” tolerances daily and with woodworking if I get within a 16th of an inch I’m basically perfect. It’s like the part I like about my work without any of the consequences.

I end up forgetting which shows/games were which year, Zenshu and Apocalypse Hotel feel like a lifetime ago, good anime lingers I guess.

When I write stuff for my characters I don’t want the most bland generic copy-paste plot, I want my specific brand. I want to put the characters in situations I’ve been rotating in my head, not what an approximation of the average fic would be.

“The only limit is the imagination and the ability to put that into words” you mean like… writing normally? That’s what writing is?? You get better at the words through practice, but like… just write???

"You dislike AI, and yet you use a GPS? How curious! I am very intelligent."
"What about disabled people who want to profit from the plagiarism machine?"
"This is going to change everything and you're just behind the times (something that was said about crypto and nfts)"
etc etc

Less time feeling tired or annoyed or anxious and more time doing what I want to do, that’s the goal for next year. Less time ruminating on bad encounters or people I don’t want to interact with and more time drawing OCs kissing or something.

Really, what I want for next year is “rot less”. That is, spend less time laying on the couch not knowing what to do, or endlessly scrolling social media and mobile games in a loop like a tiger in a cage, and spend my time instead actively doing things I want to do.

Then to get rid of the restless frustrated energy I’m going to go on a cleaning spree so this doesn’t happen again and can get rid of the clutter everywhere.

And then when I go to draw I’m going to be so out of it I won’t be able to start.

Man.

I open the fridge and find that the ground beef I put in there has gone bad because I hadn’t taken the time to cook it the last couple days because the task seemed so daunting with everything else that needed done first, so now if I want to make chili I need to go back to the store and-

Because the sink is full of dirty dishes and pans and bowls and can’t move any to the dishwasher because the dishwasher is full of clean dishes that haven’t been put away so I need to do a jrpg fetch quest chain to just get to the point of starting and then when I do

Really the most impressive part was you juggling the toddler, bowling pins, machetes, and that revving chainsaw. Multitasking like that doesn’t happen easily!