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Blogging again

A new one, another attempt to start blogging, move on and start again. I don't know why now, but I've realized over the last year that blogs are still my favorite medium on this internet and not much else is left of the once glorious promise of the free web for all.

I am looking for a virtual place to collect my thoughts and ideas, to make them findable again and possibly also to persist them. Neither a program nor an app seem ideal for this. Hence this perhaps last attempt to write my blog.

2023 has come to an end, but it is difficult to draw a final conclusion. It was a good year. Our second child was born, we bought a house and, above all, we stayed healthy. But it was also a year of upheaval. In no previous year have the disasters affected me as much as last year. I stopped consuming the news. What incredible luck to be able to escape from reality in this way; the people affected by the wars and misery don't have this opportunity. Furthermore, it is more than uncertain whether I will be able to continue in my current job. Departments have been carved out and sold off, and other areas, including the one I work in, are to follow. Nobody knows what will happen next.

2024 is here, nobody knows what the year will bring. My goal is to prioritize my family, which for me means learning to say no at work, preferably to stop working overtime so that I can take the pressure off my girlfriend and be there for the whole family more. It's also going to be a very stressful year. I'm really looking forward to watching the children grow up and learning. We have a lot of tasks ahead of us with the house purchase. We get to completely renovate a house that is over 100 years old and develop a 3000 m2 plot of land.

The other goals for 2024: