"Rabbit rabbit rabbit!"

Welcome to January, 2023!

I don't expect it to suck any less than 2022 -- I'll settle for sucking less than 2021.

Done Since 2022-12-25

I've been having a hard time getting out of bed lately. Typical symptom of depression and anxiety, but having a cat purring on my lap makes it even harder. It also makes it harder to use my laptop.

The 28th was a bad day all around. Southwest Airlines Has Meltdown In Denver, Declares Emergency, Twitter users report global outage with many unable to log into website, and there was a Twitter Data Breach: 400 Million Users Affected. It would have been my mom's 102nd birthday. The 27th wasn't all that great if you've been using LastPass.

The fact that today is Public Domain Day 2023 may brighten things up a little. See today's music.

And have a happy New Year -- here's hoping! (But I'm pessimistic.)

( Notes & links, as usual )

River: New Year's Day 2023

As I said a year ago, it's time for my annual goal-setting wishful thinking post. I'm not optimistic. (N says I should force myself to be optimistic. See below.)

1. The new top goal is getting the Whidbey Island house sold. This one has sub-goals: 1. get the Stuff cleared out -- combination of estate sale, eBay, and junk-hauling; 2. landscaping -- the yard has been basically abandoned for three years; 3. repairs -- floors, garage door, garage roof, painting, power-washing; 4. putting it on the market -- that's the easy part. I've wasted the last year and a half that I could have been using for all this.
2. Finishing the EOL paperwork: find a lawyer (who hopefully can serve as an executor as well), and get the will and advanced directives done, as well as documenting my files (which I gave myself credit for at least starting last year). A lot of my life is on the computer, and I can't expect anyone to make sense of it without a roadmap.
3. Better time management. That mostly means controlling doomscrolling, blog-scrolling, rabbit-holing, and general reading. There has to be time for self-care, writing, and music.
4. Self-care, as usual. Including but not limited to exercise, walking, journaling, and music. And, at N's strong recommendation, being deliberately optimistic.
5. Writing. This includes a new verse in QV (see below), but also more introspective journaling (see above).
6. Music. Includes guitar, singing, remote and maybe even live filking, and recording at least one album: Amethyst Rose. (Which also requires a new verse for QV, so songwriting as well.) (Also, I'm signed up for a course in recording at North Seattle College this quarter.)
7. Get back in touch with some of the many people I've lost touch with.
8. Reorganize my to-do lists. N says that I should trim my list down to something I can see all at once, and pick off 1-3 items per day to work on. (That's based on some (perhaps questionable) assumptions, including the grownth rate of the list, the size distribution of the items, and a psychological version of the Axiom of Choice. This is starting to look a lot like another rabbit hole.)