Because why not?
- The Cubs won the World Series. Not because I’m a Cubs fan (I’m not, particularly), or because I’m happy that now they’ll shut up about it (I am). But because I listened to the last game on the radio, essentially – and I forgot how much fun that sort of thing is.
- It was not a bad year for movies. A bunch of good ones and at least one flat-out wonderful one (Arrival). Go figure: I’m a proud ‘big explosions in space’ kind of guy when it comes to movies and the movie I liked most this year was about a bunch of people drawing linguistic concepts on whiteboards.
- The Delta Green RPG came back.
- The Seventh Sea RPG also came back, and – thanks in no small part to my readership – I was able to get my wife a nice gift associated with it.
- My wife and kids are all fine, thank God.
- Even with the change in circumstances, my family’s still in good financial shape, thank God.
- I’m doing creative writing again! I mean, I never quite stopped, but I can apparently still remember how to put one word in front of the other.
- I got to run a con game again! Kind of missed doing that. Although, dear God but it makes one sweat.
- I have excellent readers. No, I’m not just sucking up. I mean, obviously I’m sucking up a little, but you get to have a little sucking up, because you’re excellent readers. And number 10?
- …I get to watch 2016 go away in about four and a half hours.
I miss your insights, but given how some have bent themselves to defend the indefensible, I can hardly blame you. Many a page has gotten harder to read these last 6 months. Glad you’re still here in a different capacity.
Happy New Year Moe. I’ll add my voice to missing your insights, but I get the need to disconnect.