Captian's Log 2024: The Beginning 1 Jan 202426 Dec 2023 Well, outside some unforeseen tragedy, the new year has begun. I failed at last year's resolution, somewhat, but I've also taken on a job that is very active and requires…
Captian's Log 2023: The End 31 Dec 202326 Dec 2023 The last day of the year is here, or will be. I'm writing this a little ahead of schedule so I can take a bit of a break this last…
Captian's Log 2023: The Beginning 1 Jan 202322 Dec 2022 Happy New Year! I've been trying to think up what would be a good resolution. What I really need to do, what most of us need to do, is get…
Captian's Log 2022: The End 31 Dec 202222 Dec 2022 I'm not sure how to commemorate the end of this year. Admittedly, there has always been an arbitrariness to New Year's Eve that has bothered me. Why end the year…
Captian's Log 2021: The End 31 Dec 202131 Dec 2021 As the year ends and I glance over the triumphs and failures of this last cycle, I wonder how to correlate it. I see victories and defeats, but ask, overall,…
Captian's Log 2021: Beginning 1 Jan 202130 Dec 2020 Welcome 2021! Everything is going to be . . . exactly the same. Such is life. The world isn't going to change. There will always be wars and famine and…
Captian's Log 2020: The End 31 Dec 202030 Dec 2020 Adieu 2020 Well, it's the end of a year, a rather strange year. It seems I know I lot of people who died, though I don't really know anyone who…
Captian's Log 2019: The End 31 Dec 2019 So here it ends. Another year is fulfilled. Let the Roaring twenties begin! (Let’s skip the whole prohibition thing this decade, please). This has been a year of ups and…
Captian's Log 2018: The End 31 Dec 201831 Dec 2018 Happy end of 2018, long live 2019! As I head into the New Year, one thing stays on my mind, what am I going to do for the next Halloween?…
Captian's Log 2017: The End 31 Dec 201731 Dec 2017 I always thought New Years was a dumb celebration. Everything about it seems arbitrary to my mind: one day, possessing no intrinsic significance, is set aside for people to have…