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Published December 3, 2025 - Permalink

Confabulator 2025

I took all of last week off from work to clean my apartment and prepare food for a Thanksgiving feast of about 20 people. All this in spite of both my spouse and I having parents with extra medical needs these last few weeks.

This time of year is always its own animal, a distinct phase from the time before and after it. At work, somehow things both slow down and speed up with the sinking realization that there is only so much a team can accomplish in the next three weeks while not having your full staff. In my personal projects, including this website, it’s when I reflect on what I hoped to accomplish this year and re-evaluate what I might work in around the holidays.

This year is different. I declare 2025 over right now. With everything going on with multiple family medical emergencies and an active toddler, I know that I’m not accomplishing anything more of note this year. And that’s fine. It’s not my job right now to satisfy my interests and hobbies. It’s my job to facilitate things for my family and make sure things go as smoothly as they can.

That said, I’ve tried to keep a bi-weekly publishing cadence for this website. Nobody is imposing that on me, but I’ve found that two weeks is a sweet spot to take something I want to write about and polish it into something to publish. If you look back at the dates on previous posts, you’ll see that there may be months between them. And that’s what happens when I don’t have a schedule and rather wait until I think a piece is a pretty enough flower to pick.

Since 2025 is over for me, my posts from now until whenever I run out of things to say will be retrospectives on the last year. What went well, my favorite things, and thoughts for the next year.