Finally finished my #TTRPG #EOY blog post. I cover the campaigns I ran in 2024: #DungeonInABox, #DnDAdventureClub, #TalesOfTheValiant, #Humblewood, and more. I also discuss my 2025 plans, including a Pokemon-themed adventure, The #Cosmere RPG, more #ToV expansions, and an 80s movie-based series of modules!
https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2025/01/19/my-2024-ttrpg-campaigns-plus-2025-plans/
My 2024 Game of the Year blog post (and accompanying YouTube video) is now available here https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2025/01/06/2024-game-of-the-year-and-gaming-trends/
Time for my #EOY post about #books I read https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2024/12/31/my-2025-reading-trends/
@purplepadma #today I'm failing to do much #research though I am having useful #heatpump conversations on BuildHub and collecting data and experience. And of course I am preparing for the end of month #EOM and end of year #EOY data collection and analysis fest: isn't everyone? %-P
Oh, and I will be out at an #NYE party, obvs...
Windows 11 has received a number of improvements this year. Some new, and some enhancements to existing features. Here's a recap of features and changes that became available in 2024 for Windows 11.
#microsoft #windows11 #eoy
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/these-are-my-15-favorite-features-and-changes-that-microsoft-added-to-windows-11-in-2024
Thanks @metabrainz for tracking a great year in music.
Another part of my year-end retrospective playlists.
This would be the nite part of the collection. If you've ever had a wild nite, this may be familiar.
It starts normal enough, good Euro club jams, danceable but sort of dark. Then a little weirdness starts to get injected before a specific song I consider the tipping point into the full on weirdness of a great nite that's maybe gone sideways.
I mean, I knew mobile was big, but... wow.
from: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/gamesindustrybiz-presents-the-year-in-number-2023
End of year tasks roundup:
* clean up browser tabs β
* clean up desktop β
* post status updates from personal website β
Happy Birthday to me!
1.5 school days to go. I am always too exhausted to feel like doing much for my birthday and often wish I had celebrated my half birthday instead!!
Perhaps next year!! Hahaha
Close to 2 movies.
That's how long it took me to fold this year's zines for my class. I've been making these as an end of year gift with messages for each class for 5 yrs now. I've got better at accepting that some students won't value them & I've had some tell me they put them in with treasures as a keep sake, that warms my heart. I enjoy thinking about them as I fold & cut my way to making them.
#zine #teacherlife #EOY #tradition #memories
This has been such a mind-splitting busy time at work. Security questionnaires for days and days. And we're using a tool to help. The trouble is the sales team doesn't want to own rfps. I don't understand why they want to rely on someone else that might slow their process down. Unless.... They want a scapegoat? They think they won't close it, and if security takes too long, they can blame the loss on us? #74rku5 #rfps #rfpio #sales #EOY
Every year, I hear people making plans that assume December is a month like any other. I remind them that, realistically, nothing happens the last two weeks of the year. Inevitably, they deny this.
Well, the Monday of that two week window was yesterday and even the handful of people who were going through the motions (aka working ') were all ' that can wait until 2023...'
As I start my end of year posts for this year, I look back at #running over the past 2 years; how it felt and lessons learned.
https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2022/12/19/end-of-year-review-running-2021-and-2022/
#Zine #TeacherLife #EOY
#Reflecting
Here is my zine production, midway through making them.
I just learned that these tiny books are called zines. I have been making one for the end of the year for the last few years, a nice way to gather some thoughts and share some memories with my students π€©
Table top with a pair of scissors, a pile of A4 paper with little photos and stories written by me, and a pile of tiny zines (mini folded books) https://mastodon.nz/@meganisalanis/109510503269296158
#Zine #TeacherLife #EOY
#Reflecting
Here is my zine production, midway through making them.
I just learned that these tiny books are called zines. I have been making one for the end of the year for the last few years, a nice way to gather some thoughts and share some memories with my students π€©
