Happy New Year, Revolutionaries! January 1st is traditionally a day in which people take a moment to evaluate their lives and consider areas of improvement as they recover from New Year's Eve, and I thought I'd take a moment and look at the last year.
Considering that I'm retired, I have to confess that I had a slow year in terms of fandom. If anything, it was sub-par in terms of things like catching up on reading, making inroads into my TV viewing backlog, or continuing with book cataloguing. Instead, my first year of retirement was pleasantly restful: naps, daily walks, leisurely cups of tea, and a lot of time watching YouTube™ - as well as a brief flirtation with Duolingo, which ended after three months when I finally accepted that the free version wasn't teaching me anything I hadn't learned from Mrs. Wood in high school French class.
That being said, I also attended Worldcon in 2025, which stands out as the peak of my life as a science fiction fan. I had a great Space Marine VR experience, we paid an enjoyable pre-boycott visit to Disneyland (and by extension Galaxy's Edge, which I love), I saw some good SF movies, like Thunderbolts, Mickey 17, Fantastic Four, Superman*, and Tron: Ares*, and made a casual start on Season Two of Andor and Season One of Pluribus, both of which are excellent.
And now it's 2026, and I feel that it's time to get back in the groove. As such, my New Year's resolution is to read a book a week, watch an hour of TV a day, and do one blog posting a week, as well as finally finshing up my long-running book catalogue project. which is currently dead in the water at "Rowley". As with any resolution, I can't promise that I'll stay the course for the entire year, but at least it gives me a place to start.
A happy New Year to anyone reading this, and I wish you good luck with whatever resolutions you may choose to undertake for 2026!
- Sid
* To be honest, I went against the current on these two. I didn't really love Superman, and I quite enjoyed Tron: Ares.
No comments:
Post a Comment