Duncan and his cousin Kaito toast in the new year with raised glasses of root beer. I spent new year's eve with the family. One nephew's birthday is on Jan 1st and we have always combined his birthday party with the new years holiday since we live far apart. However, since this was an important one, number 18, we planned for a three day visit and played Jackbox games all night new years eve sunday and had his birthday party on Monday where we did whatever he liked which was to play board games he got at Gencon.
But we also said farewell to 2023. Bad Year. Bad. It was a year that began on the 1st with a friend's house catching fire, putting him in the hospital. I then found that one, then both of my dogs had cancer, two different kinds, both untreatable and three months later they would die within weeks of each other, Titan at 12 and Bruce at 15. Petless for the first time in my life I took a 30 day vacation to central Europe to get over it which helped for sure but it was expensive. When I came back I got my first cat and two new dogs with all the needed training that comes with them. I lost a friend to pancreatic cancer when he refused surgery and the friend in common I went to the funeral with would himself die in the fall for an unknown reason, just went to bed and did not wake up, I got texts from friends at MFF asking when I last heard from him, five days I said. He lived alone and was not found for five days! Got me thinking about that whole living alone thing and I will be in more contact with my folks and friends. It was also the year I got COVID finally after having avoided it up to then. At least it was the mildest strain of it but I still have some long covid symptoms. I sadly saw the mob side of servers and sites in 2023, where differences of opinion were suddenly not worth working through or looking past and then the few decide it's better to break up the group to form another or expel a long time friend regardless of the underlying cause.
2023 was the year the war in Ukraine came home to Russia, driven to the brink and with longer range weapons the Ukrainians, unlike the aggressors, began striking actual military targets at times deep in the Russian federation. But none struck deeper than Prigozhin who launched an insurrection amid a feud with Russia’s top military brass and marched on Moscow, stopping just short of it but doing damage to the dictator's illusion of invulnerability.
On the positive side it was fun meeting friends I only knew before from online at Gencon, IFC and MFF , we got our first Micro Center store and as a result I built my first new PC for myself in a long time, my NVidia stock is going great guns and of course I got some sweet art.
A Patreon monthly drawing by artist Xael-The-Artist, Background was computer generated by me.
But we also said farewell to 2023. Bad Year. Bad. It was a year that began on the 1st with a friend's house catching fire, putting him in the hospital. I then found that one, then both of my dogs had cancer, two different kinds, both untreatable and three months later they would die within weeks of each other, Titan at 12 and Bruce at 15. Petless for the first time in my life I took a 30 day vacation to central Europe to get over it which helped for sure but it was expensive. When I came back I got my first cat and two new dogs with all the needed training that comes with them. I lost a friend to pancreatic cancer when he refused surgery and the friend in common I went to the funeral with would himself die in the fall for an unknown reason, just went to bed and did not wake up, I got texts from friends at MFF asking when I last heard from him, five days I said. He lived alone and was not found for five days! Got me thinking about that whole living alone thing and I will be in more contact with my folks and friends. It was also the year I got COVID finally after having avoided it up to then. At least it was the mildest strain of it but I still have some long covid symptoms. I sadly saw the mob side of servers and sites in 2023, where differences of opinion were suddenly not worth working through or looking past and then the few decide it's better to break up the group to form another or expel a long time friend regardless of the underlying cause.
2023 was the year the war in Ukraine came home to Russia, driven to the brink and with longer range weapons the Ukrainians, unlike the aggressors, began striking actual military targets at times deep in the Russian federation. But none struck deeper than Prigozhin who launched an insurrection amid a feud with Russia’s top military brass and marched on Moscow, stopping just short of it but doing damage to the dictator's illusion of invulnerability.
On the positive side it was fun meeting friends I only knew before from online at Gencon, IFC and MFF , we got our first Micro Center store and as a result I built my first new PC for myself in a long time, my NVidia stock is going great guns and of course I got some sweet art.
A Patreon monthly drawing by artist Xael-The-Artist, Background was computer generated by me.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Pokemon
Species Pokemon
Gender Male
Size 1500 x 1500px
I'd ask you, Reddywolfy what in particular you disagree with but you blocked me right after commenting so I guess you aren't prepared to defend your position as I very much am.
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