2022: Journal in Review
Dec. 31st, 2022 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAnother year has gone by, but I’ve got to admit that regardless of what consequences there might yet be I’m not ending it in quite the same hunkered-down state I ended last year and the year before in. In travelling for the holiday I managed to get home on a day that was just grey; snow started blowing hard the very next day and we spent that day and the next wondering if the power would stay on (it did). On Christmas day we started digging out, and it took us two days to get to the end of our country driveway (with the family snowblower giving out in the process). After one day of snowshoeing the great thaw started; I at least managed to see my just-over-a-year-old niece in person before driving back to my place on quite passable roads. As for the first sentence of the first post of each month, I started the year trying to be a little more concise, but things stretched out with time even as the odometer of file name numbers turned over the “four hundred thousand” mark.
January: As I composed an end-of-year post mentioning things were ending pretty much as they had the year before, I was at least looking forward to one little bit of that repetition.
February: Most of the time I don’t seem that fast at getting around to “the latest thing online.”
March: Nudged by a mere indirect reference, I turned back to a particular “first-person shooter” from the mid-1990s.
April: With a new year beginning I was contemplating what anime I’d watch in its first three months, but daydreaming a full year ahead too.
May: The moments of late when I might be readiest to spend them on the diversion of Wordle are moments when I don’t have online access.
June: Keeping half an eye on the “1-bit video player for the compact Macintosh” MacFlim, I got to thinking it was time to “build” a new version of its video encoder and keep up with changes to the program.
July: Daydreaming ahead to a grand episode-sampling project at the start of next year, but still “waiting to be certain production’s actually complete” right now, left me somewhere in a marking-time middle watching anime in the past three months.
August: While trying out “full-screen video for the (emulated) TRS-80,” I took another look at some message boards recommended by the emulator and video player’s programmer.
September: When Denpa announced they would translate and release a manga presenting “the true (yet comedically skewed) story of the making of Gundam,” that got my attention.
October: That much more prone in recent months to thinking ahead to what anime I’ll watch once I’ve got through what I’m viewing now, I happened to reflect on plans to spend the last weeks of September on a bus tour.
November: Noticing a news item one of the people who provide the character voices in the Love Live franchise would be stepping down from the role for health reasons got my attention, but I have to admit I had to look into the full article to see what character Tomori Kusunoki was the voice for.
December: In keeping track of the flight of Artemis I, I took note of the latest pictures from the cameras mounted outside the capsule catching sight of the Earth and moon close together (with the moon looking bigger than the Earth), but knew it would be leaving its distant retrograde orbit soon for the next leg of its journey.
See you in the new year!
January: As I composed an end-of-year post mentioning things were ending pretty much as they had the year before, I was at least looking forward to one little bit of that repetition.
February: Most of the time I don’t seem that fast at getting around to “the latest thing online.”
March: Nudged by a mere indirect reference, I turned back to a particular “first-person shooter” from the mid-1990s.
April: With a new year beginning I was contemplating what anime I’d watch in its first three months, but daydreaming a full year ahead too.
May: The moments of late when I might be readiest to spend them on the diversion of Wordle are moments when I don’t have online access.
June: Keeping half an eye on the “1-bit video player for the compact Macintosh” MacFlim, I got to thinking it was time to “build” a new version of its video encoder and keep up with changes to the program.
July: Daydreaming ahead to a grand episode-sampling project at the start of next year, but still “waiting to be certain production’s actually complete” right now, left me somewhere in a marking-time middle watching anime in the past three months.
August: While trying out “full-screen video for the (emulated) TRS-80,” I took another look at some message boards recommended by the emulator and video player’s programmer.
September: When Denpa announced they would translate and release a manga presenting “the true (yet comedically skewed) story of the making of Gundam,” that got my attention.
October: That much more prone in recent months to thinking ahead to what anime I’ll watch once I’ve got through what I’m viewing now, I happened to reflect on plans to spend the last weeks of September on a bus tour.
November: Noticing a news item one of the people who provide the character voices in the Love Live franchise would be stepping down from the role for health reasons got my attention, but I have to admit I had to look into the full article to see what character Tomori Kusunoki was the voice for.
December: In keeping track of the flight of Artemis I, I took note of the latest pictures from the cameras mounted outside the capsule catching sight of the Earth and moon close together (with the moon looking bigger than the Earth), but knew it would be leaving its distant retrograde orbit soon for the next leg of its journey.
See you in the new year!