Personal Updates – Words from fallingstuff

I do not have a lot to report for this week, lots of things going on in the job that pays the bills – bunch of projects rumbling along at the same time and it has been so freaking cold here. Even with not a lot to update, I did make a commitment to post keep on track posts. I did have an interesting happening this past week. I somehow managed to let all the little things in life get to me enough that I had something of an anxiety attack. The whole thing passed in a few minutes, but it was enough to be really uncomfortable and remind me I am not as young as I used to be.

I am kicking around some ideas for an old computer hardware reuse thing and right now I am trying to scope it into something that will have a good format with testing that is repeatable over a bunch of bits. I am going for a “is this old machine ewaste?” thing. I jumped into some posts that were in flight and posted the Stardew Valley post, it is not much but is good things. I had several more posts open to work on but they were not quite ready for this week so, more to come.

We will see what next week brings … and be kind to yourself, there is only one of you and if you are not careful it easy to get overwhelmed by stressors – and when that happens, take a step back and a deep breath and then take one thing at a time.

No it is not the first of the year .. it is more around 3 weeks into the new year. I have not been in a coma all this time, although I have been sick with some kind of crud. No, I have spent the last 2ish months trying to put good reasoning behind why I did not achieve my personal goals in 2023 and 2024, watching what I have been doing and more importantly how do I do better for 2025… Let me explain.

I have a bad habit of over analyzing everything to the point of stagnation (yep, old school analysis paralysis) but I have taken it a step further and tried to put everything into small VERY specific categories, but then I forget the categories. I also have a habit of putting things onto a VERY specific schedule – “I will only do X on Y day”, meaning I have cut out the flexibility if something interrupts that schedule usually this is work affecting personal projects. Wrap it all up with my planning has not accommodated for the above meaning I forget what I am working on because I missed the release time and then forgot what I was working on.

This year I am changing up how I approach these things – all my projects are being pulled under a new, more generic title – Fallingworks, my site has always been about things I was doing … and since the things that I do tend to be all over the place, the new title is fitting. Plus, as a side note, the name change leans into more collaboration. I spent the last 2ish months putting together a list of all the ideas that I want to work on, including things that I was already working on… Big list of everything, just pick something that piques my interest then only mark it off when it is done, whatever and whenever that is. The last things I have are to make a weekly ‘status’ post for accountability and to keep things somewhat on track.

I have a lot on the plan for 2025 both personally and professionally, it is going to be an exciting year.

Category: Personal Updates

Be Kind to Yourself

Happy New Year .. a little late