Ain't that something too? Hell yeah it is! :)

We're actually up at 2,500 movie reviews already, but I forgot to post about this milestone, so here it is.

Here's to the next 500! 🎉

Happy 2025!

This one finna be a vibe and lively! Let life be nice as these skies now lighting! The year full of adventure, all grand; exciting! When in times I'm tired, and in trials, I might sink. Climb up as the sparks shine! Depart this here dark mind!! Get out and then start rhyme!!! Some bad peeps leading the way these days. What a waste that eh. 2025? It's OUR TIME.

Let's start this with doodle and Cheer! If you want to peep Last Year's first post you can do that right here.

I hope Harry Mack posts something like this again, that was such a nice way to start the last one.

But he's a great way to start any day anyway. Always bringing smiles and good vibes everywhere his feet lead him, to the beach in Venice, where the trees are knee thin like the water's freezing (though I doubt it is).

The fireworks here are cracking again! And I am inspired. Like Harry Mack with a pen.

The year that's been?

I sped up in the blogging department again, with two more pages in the archives compared to 2023. :) I write more each year apparently, though each year I feel less and less like I do... ain't that some strange magic?

A large part of that's definitely thanks to Inktober and reviews though. I post quite a bit of those, and amped up my efforts a bit with the latter if naught the former compared to last.

I had all the more plans though. And I still have leftovers...

We actually hit the 2,000,000 word count just a few days ago - thanks to those reviews again! So that's like... 28.5 full books! That's cray cray. And when you compare it like that, imagine if I'd spent all this time actually writing books instead of blogging...

How many of those could've been bestsellers? How rich could I have been at this point?!

Who knows. And who cares! That's neither here nor there.

The comment count keeps increasing too. Shout-out my continual compadre in commentary @S3C, and on surprise occasions - like just now - @soulard. :) Wherever did @Biterrrr go though...

In the real world the wars still rage. In the online one I've watched less Yes Theory, and more stunts, and skits, and reactions...

I've succumbed to simpler things again, it seems.

I blame back issues, and look forward to a time where my posts will have less to do with anatomy, and more to do with say autonomy, or my bond to sea, or other interesting things.

I do still follow Çenet though. He recently explored the deepest cave in the world, that was pretty cool.

Did you know that a week underground easily has you go down around 10 kg, even if you eat plenty? The crux being, that if for example I was to attempt such a venture, I'd have to be in hella good shape before I attempt it, and would thus want to lose no more kilos when I'm down there.

There's a reason you can't be underground too long, with cold and exertion slowly but surely depleting your bodies' fat reserves no matter your diet.

There's no miracle cure for anything is there? No pain no gain. No loss without accomplishment. And less YT...

Though I'm not in great shape I've succumbed to a surprisingly small amount of ailments this year though. Maybe my microbiome's better at least. Maybe I'm eating better - I'm definitely not sleeping better. Whatever the reason for it I haven't had a cold for months now , even though I seem to be surrounded by sick people.

*pepper pepper*

Christmas went well, and I watched Interstellar at the cinema today.

I can't think of a better way end the year than with that. A spectacular trek through time and space, to remind us of the adventures we may miss when we self-bind in place, and let us face our fiends, and friends, and families in the best possible way... it's the 10th Year Anniversary of that friggin' masterpiece this year. Glad I got to relive it on the big screen.

I don't think anyone in the room didn't get teary-eyed.

Sat beside a dad and his cool emotionless teenage son, who initially didn't seem too happy about being there, and witnessed how good film truly transcends generations, and breaks everyone.

Maybe a plot like this is a special case though. It's like a glue for broken bonds. It's like the very fabric of family, and yet one of the most bad-ass and (theoretically) authentic space exploration movies of our time too...

Speaking of exploration: Though finances are currently at an ongoing all time low I have done a bit of traveling this year. Dublin went well, Åre went well, Gdansk and Barcelona too recently, and of course I've been back and forth between the city and civilized life and the wilder North throughout most of summer, and a fair bit of spring and autumn too...'

It's been a good year, all things considered.

Even if it oftentimes feels like I don't have time for anything, and that my life has somehow reached a stage where what my days contain is beyond my control.

It's not though. They're not! I'll start the New Year by reminding myself that I'm leading the charge after all, and head out on a few new adventures.

Just booked four cruises the next month... very favorable New Year pricing.

I started my resolutions post late this year, and it's getting late as I write this too. Almost two. The fireworks still pop occasionally outside, but I'm all out of energy... I'll be back tomorrow to better tend to these... posts.

2025! Let's give it all we got, so we then remember it the most, when it's o. Ver

^ Thought about doing something better with that O after a good night's sleep, but you know what? It's not so bad. The O rhymes. The O is also synonymous with a circle, as if to symbolize the cycle of life, and the year, to a smaller extent. And the 'Ver' that follows not only adds a word to the symbolism, but a new line. A blank slate. A new iteration. Another Version of the O, that is now over...

Long stretch? Let's hope the year that now brews is that too. :)

Happy New Year y'all!

...missed it by a couple! I'd planned to post this as the 10,000th post.

Oh well. We're there. We're journeying onwards. We're still keeping a remarkably consistent pace of ca 500 posts per year too - though the majority of those may come late this year.

We're up at 427,000 words on pages now, and 319,000 words in comments too! And 1,988,000 in blogs - 'bout to be two million before this year is over.

Do with those statistics what you will. Maybe some day down the line I will better analyze and differentiate between the particular lapses of time with which said numbers shift and increase, and come to some sort of conclusion over the grand scheme of all things...

Until that day let us just say Hey! The post count's friggin' 10,000.

And that is cool. Hopefully they shall yet accrue and accumulate.

Here's the last milestone.

Quick doodle. :)

Couldn't settle on the right color combo so here's a bundle of alternative commemorative centerpieces of simplistic typography and Pico-relevant design for the grand and groovy event that's concurrently going down all over the globe today...

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Happy Pico Day y'all! :)

It's that special NG occasion on which we celebrate all the greatness and creation that one site has given us over the years.

If you want to read up on the history behind this event you can do so here.

I collabed on a track for it this year with @Aalasteir. Aw yeah(r)!

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