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Happy New Year! 2025: My first full year of running my own business, and things really went well. Also had my second child, a beautiful daughter who is currently not sleeping well at night. I am so tired. I lost my dog suddenly - he was my first dog and my companion for nine years. I love that guy so much.
Still some five hours to go here in Norway, but it has been dark outside for a few hours already.
Dinner is just about ready, friends pouring in the doors as we speak and as for fireworks, seeing as we live quite rurally, a couple of kilos of dynamite is at the ready.
Professionally, 2025 has been kind to me. Got to visit Japan and Libya for the first time and am going back to Japan next week for a scientific cruise down to the Mariana trench or thereabouts; when back, I will start working on the next generation control system for our products, having spent the past few months trying to learn enough about control system architecture to hopefully avoid the most obvious pitfalls.
Oh, and I have learned from painful experience a few of the things NOT to do evaluating the current design...
I’m going into 2026 about 100 pounds down since last new years. I’m excited to see what the future holds when I’m in the best physical shape of my life. GLP-1 inhibitors are a modern miracle (admittedly to solve a modern problem). I realize now I wasn’t active because I was fat, not vice versa. I rode hundreds of miles on my bike this year, towing my wheelchair using daughter along for the ride in a bike trailer. If you’re in a situation where you feel losing weight is hopeless, I strongly encourage you to consider these medications. It could change your life for the better, in strange ways you might not expect. I also paid off all my credit cards (and cancelled them) this year, and I swear it was only possible because losing weight has allowed me to be a better and more cognizant long term planner.
Here’s to a great year of self improvement and refinement. Happy new years everyone!
Happy New Year from the Sierra Nevada foothills. 2025: - set up new facility for mfg of CVD diamond tech products - replaced awful old carpets at home with bamboo wood floors - lost 42 lbs (thanks, tirzepatide) - secured $ for a new CVD diamond system, build starts in January - road trip to see friends & family, some for first time in a decade Wishing happiness, love, accomplishment and adventure to all!
In 2025 I:
- read 52 books with a total of 17924 pages
- hiked 41 times with a total of 533.1 kilometres
- wrote 225 blog posts --> https://peterspath.net
- moved 2781.2 kilometres by walking, hiking, biking, swimming, running, etc.
Happy new year everyone Some good stuff in 25 for me - went to Yellowstone - dislocated my shoulder for the first time, went to pt and feel better than ever - switched jobs for higher pay and better wlb - started getting into game dev with the goal of releasing in summer 26! Here’s to a great 2026 everyone!!
Love that. Are you working solo or on a small team for the game?