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2024-2025 expectations

Andrew and I are working on our 24th year together and despite the world order, or dis-order, we will do whatever we can to make it another great year. As always, our New Year wishes extend to all of our friends and family. We love them, support them and respect their right to make what they will with their own lives.
There is a lot of chatter all over the world heralding every conceivable speculation as to how our world will change under the Trump/Musk administration. As for me, with Trump in the center seat, and Musk's money running the show, 2025 will be a crapshoot. I do have faith that there are sufficient watchdogs to ensure some degree of moral parity between the faithful and the faithless. And that we will be spared from the fires of nuclear incineration. Short of that, all bets are off regarding American prosperity. While it's not quite the time to bury our treasures in the back yard the thought has crossed our minds... which we will keep open and flexible for as long as we can. We expect 2025 is going to be a bumpy ride. But then...bumpy rides can be fun too!

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The notion of making and keeping New Year's Resolutions isn't completely moronical. One must have some goals else stagnate in the status quo. Some can endure that way, most cannot. Hence the creation of things we 'resolve' to do. And like I do every year, here is my list of things I will strive to achieve in 2025.

  • No longer hide recyclables in the regular trash by putting them in plastic bags.
  • No longer allow any service to guilt me into tipping especially when they make me stand in line... for anything. And for 20%, your service better be spot on.
  • Lose twenty pounds by June and keep it off until three days after Christmas... OR grow 6 inches taller.
  • Andrew and I will attempt to break the curse that causes the Padres to lose every home game we attend. Might help if they lowred the cost of a beer to below $20.
  • Keep an open mind as new leadership in Washington attempts to make America Great Again. And do not make fun of Trump or his administration until they have uttered at least two coherent sentences. (May be a long, long wait.)

Terry Ernest - December 31, 2024

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