How I am walking out of 2025.

If you see this post a random fact about yourself: After scrolling back a couple of levels I’ve decided not to bore you with my tedious history.

I just had an interesting idea for a story. Now to go see how many books and movies have already done it. My guess: several. #WriteSky

My daughter just asked if this is the last Christmas we’ll spend in the house they grew up in. Yes, it probably is. Now we’re all a bit sad. 😔

Ah, Christmas Eve. 🎄 My wife is napping courtesy of a 3am work call, my daughter is FaceTiming her boyfriend four time zones away, and my son is yelling at strangers on the internet while he plays Call of Duty. Very festive. I’m gonna go shovel the driveway. #MerryChristmas

#TheTimTraveller isn’t on Bluesky yet, apparently, so allow me to share his latest video with all of you lovely, smart, talented, and good looking folks, “Where Exactly Is Berk?”

Re. Norman Rockwell’s Freedom Of Speech, I get why people like it, especially nowadays, but it’s in about 10% of all the posts in my feed right now. Just… tone it down, people.

Just logged in to my #Facebook account for the first time in six months. Wish I’d waited 6 years instead. Eight or ten ads and “suggested posts“ for every post from people I actually care about. What a shit experience. Seriously, nuke it from orbit.

It’s the last Saturday before #Christmas 🎄& we know what that means: it’s time to remember that year when Dave Cooked The Turkey.🦃. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, give it a listen. If you do know, I see you, my fellow Canadian. 🇨🇦 #DaveCooksTheTurkey #TheVinylCafe

Got the window curtains and the tree up. Offspring #1 arrives home tonight, Offspring #2 and Mrs. Former-Earthling will be here tomorrow. (Kitchen still has a bit to go 🫤)

Kinda wish I got groceries yesterday instead of being lazy and waiting for today now. #WishMeLuck

Oooh, a new #FallOfCivilizations episode just dropped on YouTube. I guess I know how I’m spending my evening.

Here's a #dumbQuestion that no doubt reveals my ignorance, but I'm watching a #TimeTeam episode in which they found an iron age quern. Francis Pryor says it was used for grinding corn, but... corn is native to the Americas, no? I always thought iron age Britain didn’t even know corn existed.

Well, I just got word that the biopsy result came back negative, so... Phew.

Nobody calls me for months, then I travel for a couple of weeks and come back to 6 voicemails. #GreatTiming

Whoever’s out there sticking pins in the voodoo doll of me, knock it the hell off, ok?

I caved in and checked my Spotify Artist Wrapped thingy. That was a mistake. * adds “delete Spotify artist account” to to-do list

* Reads article about rising prices for memory and computer components * * turns on laptop and hears worrying fan grinding noises *

Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed for the first time in a couple of weeks, but here are a couple of photos from a few days in #Cambridge, UK.

#wipsnips This one is from my #wip, 1/3 complete, as yet unnamed sequel to “Shadow Of Horizon” in which Lt. Cmdr Sarah Jensen is forced to deal with the ongoing issues at Horizon outpost on Mars. #writesky #fourth #sci-fi

Back when I was writing songs, I had a system to tell whether an idea had enough in it to become a full song. I came up with it after abandoning a bunch of half-finished ones that just didn’t have enough “story” to go anywhere. 🧵1/4

Another #wip (am I ever going to finish one of these things?) of my short story “The Archives,” which tales place in a post-collapse near-future. #wipsnips #empty #TheArchives #writesky

*sigh*

Here’s an idea: I’m going to start selling tickets to anyone who enjoys watching me screw up. If I’m going to be a #klutz, (and I am) I might as well monetize the show. Premium seats cost extra, and the first three rows are in the splash zone. #YouveBeenWarned

Flew into Heathrow today and taxied past an Emirates A380, the first time I've seen one up close. Damn, that thing is BIIIIIIIIIIGGG.

Just want to show my appreciation to the people of Tours for trying to make me feel at home. #Canada #Quebec #Flags #Tours #France

From my #wip #sci-fi novel Shadow Of Horizon. Lt Commander Sarah Jensen is investigating a fatal accident outside a nascent Martian colony only to uncover a conspiracy of corruption. #wipsnips #impede #writesky

A connecting scene from my sci-fi short story “Iterations.” I should probably get it finished and do something with it before I give away the whole game here. 🙂 #wipsnips #system #scifi #writesky

Every intermission interview with a #hockey player is exactly the same. We could save time by just going to a shorthand system: Interviewer: Question 3? Player: Bland answer 6. I: Question 4? P: Non-answer 2. I: Question 7? P: Answer 8. I: Good luck in the 2nd period. P: Cliché 5.

My humble #suggestions for improving life in #France: 1. Screens on the windows 2. Orange juice without pulp 3. Actual apple juice, instead of whatever that stuff is they call apple juice.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Back in #Paris, got a cab from the airport to our hotel. Driver unloads our bags, we pay for the ride, I say “Bonne soirée.” He replies “Tu n’as pas raison.” ???? What did he think I said? Just how bad is my accent, anyway?

That time of year when your car windows are #frosted and you have no idea where you left the #scraper last spring so you clear the windows with a credit card. #CanadianProblems

Hey, it’s me… apparently the only human left who hasn’t made an #unboxing or #reaction to something that was common five years ago video.

Look closely, #recruiters. I received these two #LinkedIn #InMail messages on the same day. I’m going to reply to one and ignore the other. See if you can guess which one and why.

Ooh, interesting. I didn’t have that on my 2025 bingo card.

Wife is doing homework for her corporate leadership training “self-assessment” and I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks that I ended up prematurely retired so I don’t have to deal with any of that shit ever again.

For those of you following "Operation Total Recall" in Alberta, here's the latest. The province's far right wing government lowered the threshold for recall to please their base...and have they ever "found out." #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Doc wants me to track what I eat so I can aim for a “more balanced #diet.” Just to confirm… #salsa counts as a vegetable, right?

I resent the implication that I’m lazy. And as soon as I get out of bed, I fully intend to do something about it.* *Unless there’s a good show on. Then maybe tomorrow. If I feel like it.

Got my #Covid19 booster today (finally). Cost $135. Also, apropos of nothing, I loathe Danielle Smith and her horde of flying monkeys out to break the public health care system. #RecallThemAll

Another section from my sci-fi short story “Iterations,” still waiting on my hard drive for me to get motivated enough to do a new revision. #writesky #scifi

Me: opens Bluesky, scrolls for 20 minutes, reads a few things, doesn’t comment. I’m bored now. Opens Reddit, scrolls for 20 minutes, reads a few things, doesn’t comment. I’m bored now. Opens Bluesky again. etc. ad infinitum.

Snowing here today. Two weeks after I changed to winter tires. If I didn’t know better, I’d think it’s almost like I’m a responsible adult or something.

Funny story: my #birthday is next week, and Mrs. Former Earthling’s is two days later. She’s traveling for work (again) and gets back home the day after mine, and the day before hers. I’m expected to have something planned for hers. Mine, I’m sure, will be quietly overlooked. #HappyBirthdayToMe

Astronomers are still tracking 3I/ATLAS. I didn’t get a memo about this visit, so if it’s an invasion, they’re not with me. #JustSaying #goodLuckEveryone

Currently being sucked into a Reddit argument about the #OxfordComma. Impatiently waiting for someone to invent the tech that lets me boot other people off the internet for being wrong. #GrammarWars

Told ya. It’s real. #theMatrix #reality

Looks like the swarms of mini-humans seeking candy has abated for another year. This year’s count: 6 Pretty typical. Anybody want a mini-chocolate bar? I’ve got plenty.

Offspring #1 sent me a photo of himself in a Pokémon (?) costume, looking like he’s wearing a bright yellow onesie. Taken inside a pub. In the UK. Where they don’t do Halloween. And no one else is wearing any kind of costume.