I feel it’s been a while since we spoke. How’s your 2026 so far? Well, I haven’t murdered anyone yet due to menopausal rage but I’m looking forward to it. When we become the 51 state, I’m gonna get me an assault rifle.
This year is all about going off the rails.
I’ve been saving more than I’m spending. So much so that I will start investing again, but I’m not going to use TD Waterhouse, aka TD Direct Investing, because I can do it with WealthSimple.
Way back in the day, when I was working on the helpdesk at IBM, laptops, or maybe it was during my xSeries/Netfinity server days – anyhow, that’s when I first started learning about and buying stocks.
Actually, the first, first time was grade 8; some old guy came to our class, we went to the airport and I got to sit in a pilot’s or co-pilot’s chair and I remember him teaching us how to read the stock pages in a newspaper.
Back then too, I loved going to shop class. Once a week, we’d walk over to some other school in the Eglinton/Laird area. I made a spice rack for my mom and I feel like I made a mini baseball bat. I wonder if I still know how use a lathe. When I become an adult, I’m gonna have a machine shop in my garage. I like wood. A lot!
Oooh. I’m gonna make wooden dildos, finish them with resin, so people don’t get splinters and sue me.
Still haven’t had an alcoholic beverage drink since April 1, 2025, and as of Jan 3, 2026, I cut out sodas (regular, diet and zero). Now I’m working on dairy products and grains. which is really hard, but before I did alcohol and soda, I thought that would be difficult as well. Oats makes my joints ache and I am certain milk makes my night sweats worse.
The battle against carbs continues – when I look at my carb vs protein vs fat in MFP, I always go over my carbs and fats, but rarely hit my protein target.
Over the summer, I plan to put my Forms Beyond The Flesh on t-shirts. I’m super excited about that. I already found a local shop, but I need to prepare the images so it doesn’t look like someone just slapped a sticker on the shirt.
My book is coming along, and I have another one on the factory floor 😍. DALL-E via CGPT is much better at drawing the same characters in different poses, but sometimes it’s harder to get what I want, and I don’t understand why (moody AI).
Come summer, I plan to start learning how to make animations using OpenArt. Also, thinking of taking a film course at George Brown and of getting my PMOCP cert from PMI or refreshing my lean six sigma knowledge. I don’t need to figure it out now, because I need to get my PDUs before August.
I’m super proud of myself, and Jesus Christ is proud of me too. He stopped by with a massive platter of sushi, including aburi, inari, oshi and even thin slices of sashimi (just the way I love it). This is a vast improvement to our relationship because before he’d show up whenever he wanted, eat my food and leave. Apparently, he was hit by a class action lawsuit for privacy invasion – Intrusion Upon Seclusion. lol.
Enjoy your frosty weekend. Oh! I got a job on a farm but I’m reconsidering, I don’t think I can trust myself around the animals, especially when we make eye contact.
Fri Jan 23
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