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In Which we return to SimCity 2013, victim of blind spots...

Good afternoon, my friend, reader of this post! Happy Tuesday, how are you? How have the first week of 2025 treated you? An auspicious start, so I hope! As for me, I am okay... at moments, because I have been trying some different things on my games and computer, I feel in the dark, walking in circles with no purporse and so I become frustrated. The hobby has also caused me to be less mentally available for drawing or writing, at least over the past few days, which is also a source for dismay. In retrospect, though, it's not all bad. I think my first drawing of 2025, the cherry tree, tradition since 2022, looked quite charming, and I trust I will do some more at some point real soon, there is no reason for any stress I'd say, even if I stress all the same. The year caused me to become surprised with its walking, because on a chain of events that started with SimCity 4, released 2003, I ended up returning to the infamous title SimCity 2013, famous for ending SimCity as a franchi...

In Which we have the last post for 2024! An unlikely message of hope

Good morning, my good friend, reader of this post, and happy new year's eve! How are you, this December 31st, of the christmas season of '24, the last event of the year, and that will leave us at the gates of 2025? How was your month overall? As for me, I am okay, I'd say. I have good news, also: the odds of me seeing the fireworks from where I'm at, this 2024 to 2025, are very good! I assured to arrive at my grandma's place last afternoon, to celebrate such occasion, and to increase those odds, as she lives very close to the beach, which is the main place of firework display. I am not sure if I will be able to work on a proper last drawing for 2024, given the limited space available on the desk, which is a shame, but not to worry, if anything, when I am back home, around January 1st to 2nd, I will at least have some ideas for the first drawings of 2025... I want to do one for a new friend, sir Tom, for example...

Do you have any new year's resolution? You know, one of those loose plans you make when you are drunk with expectations, but at the moment you return to your normal self, you discard them, most of the time... are you thinking of any? I am, actually... I have this loose idea, and when I am tired I don't bother thinking about it, but when I am not tired, I have a loose idea, I want to work on the courses I have on my online course library, that I have collected since 2022, between a sale and another... apart from that, I just hope to stay afloat. I hope to survive, maybe to keep drawing, perhaps to keep writing on the blog... I am not that optimistic, neither do I have reason for being, apart from the uncertainty of tomorrow, that can work on my behalf as well. ... good impressions can be terribly deceitful... but on the same tone, bad woeful dreads can also be proven unfounded. Time can both destroy and heal. I have been a victim and a blessed one of those turns of time and circumstances beyond my control. I think we all have been, in one way or another. Not all is to be seen, nor clearly to be grasped. Maybe the love of my life will be born today, and I'll meet this person when I'm like 50 or so. No one really can predict anything related to human action anyway. One can hardly do a prediction correctly. I also wish I had a reason to look forward to the near future, I don't have any in special. Life is what it is, so far. You can't expect an Apple to fall upwards, nor a friend on another continent to just appear next to you. Most things are not a given, most of them are far away, many beyond my grasp. Much requires me to sacrifice my very living to maybe cause me to have joy, I am not willing to do so. Anyway, to think of which, I don't have to hope, nor to despair, at the end of the day, God loves me. Jesus is born, is dead, and then born again, just so I can be saved, isn't it the reason for this whole celebration of Christmas, one that is worthy of celebration always. I don't have to hope, nor to despair. Thank God for that...



I wonder what game will be my last one for 2024, if any. So far, I have seen Victoria 3, but I am at my last days of my run as Russia, nothing much to do on the game, at this point of the entry... I mean, I am in 1912, the game lags a lot in my computer reaching this far into the campaign, and there is little else to do anyway. If I so desire, I can play Sims 3, that is another worthy game to play for closing 2024, I can as well call it the game of the year, given how much game modding and know-how I learnt with it! I don't regret not even a bit, unlike my time in Sims 4, those I can regret...

I think this post is a good one! At the end of the day, I reached a very good conclusion on my desperation because of the uncertain future, which is: I am happy there is a God that loves me. What else is there to be said? There will be much more words in 2025, and I hope most of them will be of praise, of joy and of tranquility. But for now, it is time to wrap this up for 2024! Thank you dear reader, you are the best and you know it! Wish you so much happiness now and to come! Make sure to blow as many fireworks you can, just avoid alcohol, alcohol is bad. You can for sure expect to see me this 2025, that is just about to begin (in 12 or so hours, from the publication of this entry). And you can hope to see me as soon as possible in January 2025, hopefully before the end of the christmas season 2024, on January 5th... happy 2025 time and time again, merry Christmas 2024 while it can be said. See you real soon! Farewell!!

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