Best Book I read in 2025
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Best Song I heard in 2025
Feed us Your Girls by Lydia the Bard
Best Show I watched in 2025
Murderbot
Best Movie I watched in 2025
Wicked

A double batch of cookie dough fudge today, the first of a very fudgy Christmas. It's going to be a decadent year.

All this ICE stuff reminds me of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Which they end early because it was so horrific.

Murdering someone because you don't like what they stood for doesn't change or stop what they stood for.

Making blackberry jam and missing Vancouver...

It's amazing how intending to do some housework can transform into fixing the vacuum cleaner instead. I'm back where I started but still somehow have a great sense of accomplishment.

In an affront to my introversion, complete strangers are now following me and I don't know what to do about it. I rarely post as it is, I have no platform of expertise to share, and social media never does what I want it to do anyway.

Housing should be a right, not a privilege. The end.

Never lose the power of everyday beauty.

Someday, I would like to vote for what I want instead of against what I don't want. Election results are not an accurate representation of what the population really wants.

Not all problems can be solved with money. But the ones that can be, should be.

Now I have my deadline for completing my home theatre.

It’s about power and control. When weak people feel powerless, they intimidate and bully others to exert control. Making an impact on those around them makes them feel powerful. The goal is forcing the change, not the nature of the change itself, so a bad one is usually chosen as it’s easier.

There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity. Erring on the side of stupidity is stupid.

I did my bit, I helped a Gen Z vote for the first time. My riding pulled through. I'm baffled at the rest of the province though. I'm choosing bafflement as a reaction to too many things lately.

Heard on #CBC Cross Country Checkup the other evening that Canadians lose something like $3b a year to online foreign gambling companies. At least with trade tariffs we get something in return. Sure made me feel like changing my shopping habits won't be noticeable though.

Finished The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet last night. It's kind of plotless, linear and mild, and very carefully gives each character a moment (can't really call them subplots). It's hopeful about human nature in a way that's exactly opposite to current reality.