Happy New Year!!

2025 has arrived at last. I've been waiting for about a year now. ;-)

2024 at times seemed to drag like an ship's anchor and then it would zip by like a freight train headed for that washed out canyon crossing! Had some great times and some not so great, just like everyone else.

My writing has bounced around as well. I pub'd a second collection of short stories, 'Scattered Visions Vol 2'. It took a lot of late night writing to kick that collection out the door, because I had some personal challenges. But it was worth it! 

Scattered Visions Vol 2 ( <- click link)

Working SV-2 spawned a half-dozen new ideas for stories that I'm working on now. 2025 will be another chance to expand my Universe of Weirdness and entertain a few readers.

I rekindled my love for 8bit computing. I reorg'd my writing desk and found these mags buried in the back! Leafing through them gave me warm fuzzy memories of all the projects I did in the 80s with the 6502, 6800, Z80, 8048 and other 'micros'. 

I'm looking now at an 8bit emulator for the old Atari 2600 VCS game system. It used the 6507, basically a 6502 with less memory access. I have the dev tools to make some games. If I want I can even get a small 3D plotter to make some VCS cartridges and see who wants to play the games.

Writing is still a joy for me. I've filled a few more notebooks with half-thought out plots and cool new characters. Lots of notes about 'improving' some of my existing books as well. I know that I need to flesh out my characters in the 'Arlo and Jake' series to make them more interesting. I tend to be a 'lean' writer because I like fast paced stories. Sometimes I'm a little too lean though.

New Year resolutions are:

- write every day, not just when I'm in the mood

- get my piano put back into my Nerd Cave and start playing again

- more exercise (ANY exercise! ;-)

- have coffee with my friends more often

- travel

I hope 2025 brings you peace, happiness and maybe a little weirdness to keep you on your toes.