Delicious 2026

Good January to you, dear reader.

I'm not really, traditionally, a New Year's resolution type person. I prefer to just drift along as usual, but I also just regularly try new things and get into a new goal, so I think overall it can feel a bit redundant. I don't have any amazing ideas springing to mind for this new and delicious year, but it is true that in 2025 I finally came to understand that mysterious beast we call "the gym". And as it turns out, I like her. Except for her cancellation policies, which are always bad, and which always incur a string of emails that feel like you're being pursued by the most inept police force in the world. They can only communicate via email, but their pursuit of you is certainly relentless.

So that's one glorious habit formed, crystallised, made permanent within me. And I do have the gentle suggestion of bicep muscles at this time. They are real. I hope they won't sink back into me and smooth out. I'd like to have a trace of evidence.

Anyway, I do have some vague interests, let's put it that way. I read thirteen books in 2025. I'd like to read a higher number this year, and in particular some non-fiction, focusing on early American history. Thomas Jefferson and all that. John Adams, who so far I have learned liked his wife. Good for him.

I also received a diary for Christmas, and a beautiful fountain pen, so it goes without saying that a physical diary entry is going to be happening to me every day - in that luscious school-blue ink. Very good. I've missed keeping a diary.

Mostly, though, the major thing I want to do is make more videos. It's tough to get the pace right considering things like variable video length (I'm working on an hour-long one, and while that's great for a big chunky video that viewers can sink into, it's extremely bad for getting videos made in reasonable time-frames). I've been making a video for Patreon every month since June, and so in six months I'll be able to start posting those publicly (my whole thing there is that they're exclusive for a year, and then go fully public). I'm pretty excited to be able to do that, but it means that until then, my public output looks low - because I'm spending time making sure those bonus videos are done every month, instead of just making more public videos that can be seen by all.

I also had the trouble of a repetitive strain injury, which meant I had to massively reduce my editing time so that I could rest, and so a video I wanted to get done in October will now, in the best case scenario, be posted in January. I'm hoping to improve my workflow to mitigate this sort of thing, and it might just require the videos I make to be shorter for the foreseeable future. I'm not totally sure what exactly I'm going to do, I just know that this is the major thing I'd like to improve in the next year. Become better at making the videos.

But that's boring, so whatever. I'll read 43 books. I'll watch Pluribus. I'll draw every picture on my phone. I'll rotoscope some animations of Saul Goodman. Yeah.

Happy New Year!