Meanwhile, I wish you a happy holiday season, whatever holiday you celebrate, and a healthy and lucky new year. Many of you have told me that you keep a file of all the posts – well, I hope this one index will replace that file, or at least dramatically reduce its size … until future posts start to add up. My goal is that you’ll be able to find a post easily under the topic it covers, and see exactly what each listing is about in a little more detail than just the title conveys. So … by the end of the year I undertake to complete an index of all the posts up to now, under headings that identify broad topics, and with each listing containing the initial blurb and the takeaway, and I’ll publish it in the new year. I do not own the rights to that artwork and so I do not want it in a. Unexpectedly, searching for it was also a reminder of how many different topics these posts have covered – and how difficult it is (even for me) to find my way to a specific one that I’m looking for. One reason I need to wait on so much artwork is that the next alpha is going to be released as open-source so I want the last major functional piece in (player controlled combat) and I have to remove any placeholder artwork from the original code. I reviewed my previous year-end blog posts before writing this one, and last year’s one, in which I mentioned so many people and events that I’m grateful for in my life got to me as a reminder of how lucky a life I’ve had. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Today I see vaccines as a turning point, but (at least in my view) the end doesn’t arrive until Covid is more or less eradicated everywhere, and the beginning of the end is when the vaccines’ use becomes widespread and the number of daily new cases of Covid shrinks rapidly.īy the way, just in case you’re thinking that quote implies I must have an excellent memory, may I inform you that I wasn’t around when Churchill said that (I arrived a couple of years later), and it’s my reading rather than my memory that prompts the quote! I’m reminded of something Churchill said at a turning point in World War 2. But there’s still a distance to be travelled in the tunnel. Everyone calls this the light at the end of the tunnel. We’ve come through a year that we could never have anticipated when it started, because of Covid-19 and its impact not only on the world’s health but on many aspects of our individual lifestyles.įortunately we now have the prospect of vaccines to help us cope. Reflections on where we are, and an index to come next timeĪs this unexpectedly different and long year comes to a close, let’s take a break from thinking about the themes of these blog posts. Happy Holidays to One and All Hope everyone stays safe and warm this holiday season Image 1 - An unknown EB stack train on CP with CP ES44AC 8905 as a 1x1 DPU unit passing MP 94.8 in Wauwatosa, WI on very frigid 23 Dec., 2013.
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