2026

Twenty-twenty-six.  Truly a wild number.

There's not really much to be said here that hasn't been said already, to be honest.  Mostly yesterday, but also, in a way, similar to the start of 2025 and 2024 as well.  I have goals, sure, but at this point they're so numerous and multifaceted that, if I even end up achieving a few of them — ideally, from among a key few — I'll be satisfied.

At times, it's a bit overwhelming, though.  Having so many irons in the fire sometimes seems like it may contribute to a lack of direction, but everything kind of interplays into one overarching trend toward the new phase of life I'm building.  So I guess, to the extent I'm inclined to set any sort of renewed intention for the year ahead, it's to stay directional with everything I set out to do… even if there are, in fact, many, many directions at once.  ;)

After all: Things change, and we can only move forward.  Things evolve, and we must evolve with them.

It's the second quarter of the century, after all.

Random tangent: In addition to the traditional Eastern Time countdown and their now-usual Atlantic Time and Central Time countdowns, ABC introduced a live Pacific Time countdown for the first time last night!  And yet… they didn't actually broadcast it live coast-to-coast and still delayed the entire proceedings for western time zones.  Methinks this was a bit of a tiptoe experiment in evolving the broadcast for a more modern age, and I think it went well.