it's the end of 2022. it's been a weird year, and I'm not really a diary kind of person, but I still feel like making up the balance at the end of it. In no particular order...
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I've gotten closer to and spent a lot more time with a lot of people this year which feels good. I wormed my way into two friend servers at the start of the year and started doing rpgs and boardgames with people I've known for a while on a third friend server I wormed my way into at the tail end of last year. on top of that I got pretty active on a public discord which is a new experience too. being social can be hard for me so I feel pretty accomplished here
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as an extension to the above I've gotten pretty close to a ~girl~ which has been a pretty good confidence booster tbh
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professionally things are fine. my job likes me, I even got a retention bonus at the start of the year to keep me in place for another 12 months. but I feel like I'm at a standstill in terms of personal development and prospects of doing something more at my current company. that's been the feeling since the start of the year. I've already got the big responsibilities and this american company only seems interested in me keeping the wheels turning there, so next year I will find something new. I think I wanna go into government work. it'll probably mean a paycut but a huge increase in quality of life, which is what I want quite frankly. give me more time for hobbies and health. I feel like with like an extra day of free time a week in my life I could be so much healthier and happier
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I still haven't been able to travel. I was meant to have friends come over in september but that fell through as well so despite meeting more people I do feel physically lonelier. it sucks. next year I'm just going to go places again and catch covid I guess, but being cooped up all this time is starting to feel worse than the potential covid
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I got vindaloo cat in my life in july which has been a huge, huge quality of life increase. I love having that stupid dumbass around the apartment. I should've gotten a cat way earlier
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I played some real good videogames. library of ruina is probably the best thing I've played this year, the story was very compelling and in terms of structure has given me a lot of ideas for future rpg campaigns too. it's cool. so cool. beyond that, stuff I've enjoyed this year is the contiuing hobby experience of dominions 5, nebulous fleet command is a cool spaceboat skirmish game, dwarf fortress came to steam, vicky 3 came out... it's a big list
writing it out, this year has actually been pretty solid. the only major negative is really the job at the moment, and that's 40+ hours of my weeks so I suppose it just feels the worst. let's try and fix that in the new year.
in conclusion, thanks for reading, and