It's already mid January...

Yea the time it pass so fast my man .i dont know where the last year go so fast

Happy new year and lets hope this year will be a better year for all the world

We're already 4% through 2026.

Goals? What Goals? We don't need no stinking Goals ;>)

The other day, there was a commercial saying. By now, most resolutions have failed.

I took my last set of outside lights out of the ground and put everything in the attic on Wednesday. Today back to win chills in the 20's

By the way, do you know why the years seem to go by faster as you age?

Because every year slowly becomes a smaller percentage of the time you have been alive.
And...the past grows in years, and the future shrinks in years. So we perceive every passing year as shorter, because it's a shorter part of our lives.

Sorry, I just love hearing myself talk.

I try to look at every day as a fresh start. I'm just as likely to start working on a big goal on a Wednesday, the 17th, or whatever, instead of waiting until a certain time to get started.
So, I've already had 16 fresh starts this year, and I'm making progress in the right direction. I've gone from 1 step forward and 2 steps back to the much improved 2 steps forward and 6 steps back! I've doubled my forward progress.

Mark

Seems Capricorns are on a roll, that's for sure.

Thing is tho, 'goals' are such a meandrin' horizonal summons.

An' I get it.

Year ends. We all fowkiss on The Big Transform. Then the pre-Chrissmuss pulse of our regulah rhythm kicks in.

tbh it is mid-Janyoory's jahb to shake out the last of the Old World from us as hibernatin' mammals worldwide plan their outfits for Spring.

As a ditzily delish yogah gal, ima inclined to say you gotta find yrself sweet in alla yr moments.

So many 'goals' seemta zap you this way without it evah happnin'.

Chasin'. Strivin'. FFS evin Pumpin'.

You get that in yr head, you cain't evah settle on nuthin'.

Like a buttahfly wants only perfectest neckteurre, an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs an' fluttahs around till'n

*ZOINKS*

janno muh wings done in an' I gotta fall to Earth an' snuff out.

Evry mid Janyoory is pre- sum unyethappined tamara.

Sure, coiffyoored baboons of maxo demise gonna seek to thwartya with all imbecile schemes ... an' you can nevah predict when unseemly rashes gonna break out on your most sensitive areas, demandin' all kindsa weirdsy creems (plus also weirdsy creem applicayschwaah techniques) ... so I guess the only person you can meaningfully cast, heart an' soul, inta the fyootyoore is YOU.

Which, actschly, means MOI in this instance.

Likely I will move around sum tamara.

Walk. Breathe. Try on outfits.

If I am fortunate/unfortunate, I may muse on this in a consequenshwaahl/unconsequenschwaahl cuppacity.

An' here will be my deeds as done, my goals manifested for now.

Sumtimes the faraway, unattainabyool horizon is kinda jus' here.

No, not yet, unfortunately.

A big storm is moving across the US today and tomorrow. Anyone getting snow or ice today or tomorrow? I have seen a lot of panic food shopping reported on different news outlets. Hope your power stays on for the next several days with the frigid weather.

Have any of you heard about the 75 Hard challenge. There are 5 rules I think. One of them is that you have to go outside and do exercise for an hour, or something similar to this. It could be walking, running, jumping rope, whatever. But you are expected to do it even if it's pouring down rain or a blizzard or 3 feet of fresh snow on the ground. If you don't follow all the rules every day for 75 days, you have to start over.

In some ways that is extreme. In other ways, people that are "important" to our safety and health such as firefighters, soldiers, police, etc. have to be out in it no matter what.

In the face of this kind of weather where you must go outside if doing 75 Hard, would you do it? Could you? Is the discipline that might be gained worth it?

Mark

Seriously... it feels like Christmas was just yesterday and suddenly January is almost gone

Mark, I should seriously use that advice!

Robert, glad your Mom is still capable of driving. My Mom had Dementia at 88, and my Aunt, her older sister, is in memory care.

Speaking of time flying. Last week, the Dermatologist said, " Come back in 4 weeks". When they went to schedule the next appointment, they had to schedule me for the following week, in March. Then you realize how close we are to Spring.

I won't miss this brutal cold! 10F degrees earlier.

feel at lose

I've created so much in the last 30 days.
Released a new book.
Started a Substack.
Worked on and learned more about 2D animation.
Made my first 3D video animation (much easier than the 2D).
A new YouTube channel about a well-known gameshow.

I'm sure I forgot about some others. And then there are the things I haven't finished.
Biggest of all are a much meatier book, and a sort of documentary of abandoned barns, stores, bars, and outbuildings in NC and VA. That second one, I don't think city people have seen these. I certainly didn't in my first 34 years of life. Been collecting video for nearly all of last year, different seasons.

Just about to get hit with round 2 of the eastern storm.
If the power stays on, I'll probably finish a big 2D War of the Worlds clip I'm replicating.}
Will make that in 3D later so I can learn more about Blender.

Clients are moving along with sales training & coaching, operations improvement, introducing AI into many of their processes including quoting and inventory management (with human oversight...it's not ready to fully take over), IT infrastructure improvement, and so on.

Been a busy first month of 2026.

And now, 1/12th of the year is gone. I'm nowhere near accomplishing 1/12 of the things I planned to do. This is how you get behind, and it all starts adding up to the point of being overwhelmed, which can lead to regrets if you don't push through and try to salvage your plans and goals.

Or at least that's true for me.

Mark

Whenevah the temptyoore dips

you can always hang stuff

offa yr nips.

Soon as summah drahps, you gotta git more flexibyool, I guess.

Forgit mid Janyoory, we inta FEB rn.

(Bcs evry story 'bout Evrythin' Evah consooms our days till'n Howbliviahn gits in the way. This is an a priori fact as of Now.)

Don't wanna spook nowan, but the 2026 MIRACLE reads like this ...

See how wish of eternal love gives way to kneejerk backstabbin'?

How sagacious outlook crashlands in a limbo of practickyool inconsequence?

HOW AN OTHAWISE IMPARSHOOL ACTSCHWL FRICKIN' PRINCESS IS DRAWN (HUGGAINST HER MASSIVELY MORE MWAH MWAH MWAH JUDGEMENT) TO PICK SIDES?

Gotta say, I would wish to discriminate & judge & git pernickety on a yooniversally incloosive ticket.

So's glory thriveth perpetyool, an' evil nevah knows its own shadow.

What a wondah it is to see you guys ON THE BITCH.