2026 Resolutions
1- Move
I spent a lot of time and mental energy home shopping, doing spreadsheets and thinking about where to move in 2025. Every day I’d change my mind. Still not sure yet of anything other than I will move in 2026. I have many options and all of them have one massive downside.
2- Take online art classes(s) and draw 365 hours
If you want to get better you need to do focused training, you can’t just put in hours. Hours rapidly become meaningless without structure and they become very productive with guidance.
See also: Cycling 20000km and improving by 0% lol.
There’s tons of online classes now by people with decades of professional experience and they can critique your work and give guidance so we’ll see what we do! I’ll also put in the time doing life drawing, travel sketchbook, social drawing and classes.
Watching a decent amount of these guys right now: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/intro-to-drawing-basics
Slowly improving my drawing skills is a long-term goal as I age. Unlike fitness, you don’t immediately lose 75% of your progress if you go on a 6 month hiatus and you also can keep improving and being world class until you’re on your death bed.
3- Travel ( Thailand - Taiwan, France )
Thailand in Jan-March then France in July-September, hopefully overlapping with a few friends from Victoria! I will try to be more social when traveling, do more activities and spend more money. I have more money than I thought and nobody to spend it on and nothing I care about buying. What a horrible problem to have oh no.
Current WIP maps. I will be looser with my planning. Already booked a tour of the big red loop. 7 days fully supported stopping different place every night. Hopefully I meet new people and get lots of ideas of what to do and visit!
4- Start Soda Dungeon 3
Soda Dungeon 2 came out in 2020 and my partner ( Afro-Ninja ) who programmed those games has been making another game these last 5 years and it will wrap up in 2026 so we will start on SD3!
5- Work on Hunger / Eating Habits
I think I need to work on food habits this year because whatever it is I did resulted in me having 24/7 insatiable hunger and the inability to feel full. Probably takes 4-5 pounds of food to fill me up, so that’s like 30 eggs or 2 Costco pumpkin pies ( about 7500 calories ). I already eat a pretty clean diet with no processed foods and high protein and I drink no calories. It’s just that a bag of frozen peas is a snack to me but it’s still 800 calories of peas, it doesn’t fill me up and I will be hungry an hour later.
Anyway. Some starter ideas for the new year:
1- Weigh myself every day. Even if I don’t care about the weight so much anymore I find that this habit just keeps me on track. It snaps me back to reality every day instead of letting my brain take me on a ride for 4-5+ days.
2- Track on myfitnesspal. I never manage to keep it going for long but it really highlights how fast calories go up and how much of a joke 2000 calories is.
3- No more food after 8pm. It messes with my sleep and it’s often just calories above what I should eat for the day anyway.
4- No more food after family diner. I easily eat 4000 calories and still eat more after I come back home especially if there was leftover dessert. Ties into 3
5- Ignore scale / brain / mirror. You have to set a goal deficit and just stick to it, everything else can fluctuate a lot day to day. A good week or even one good hard workout can drop you 3-4 pounds of water/glycogen and this makes your brain flood you with stupid ideas like “woah good work time to eat more cake today”. There’s no freebies you just have to keep that small caloric deficit for a looooooooooooong time and it slowly drops your average weekly weight. Same for the reverse where one bad binge can put you up 3-4 pounds though if you do weigh yourself it tends to heavily motivate you to get back on track next day at least.
6- Find Decent Online Community
Sick of Reddit but was always too lazy to find something else. I can’t say that I’m getting anything out of them at this point since ChatGPT can just scrub Reddit and other places on the web for answers/community stuff that used to be only on Reddit. Reddit: Where BrainCells Go To Die™
7- Get Medical Tests For Funs
This is very hard to do in Canada. I think you can go through a naturopath? In the USA there’s many services where you can just mail in a blood/urine/whatever sample and they mail you back test results. Or you can do it in person for like a 100-200$. Might do it in Asia too. Got a family GP in 2025 and all he did was basic blood tests which I heard nothing back from and all other concerns or questions he just said “ignore that” or “wait and see if this gets worse”. Thanks.
8- Taste some History
Got gifted this book for Christmas ( I asked for it ) and will make… 12 recipes from it let’s say.
This guy started a youtube channel where he finds old recipes sometimes dating back thousands of years and tries them!
https://www.youtube.com/@TastingHistory
I enjoy eating new foods and creative cooking more than just “good” food which is pretty much always the same thing: Sugar, butter and salt. Okay yeah fine I get it, the secret to the best mashed potatoes is cheese and butter and in fact the less potatoes the better, woopee, mystery solved give me some Michelin stars.
I much more enjoy unusual flavor combinations like this pumpkin spice latte cheeseburger. Damn that was good.
Still have to try that Elvis grilled cheese too. It’s 2026 and most people still haven’t figured out that peanut butter makes almost anything taste better. Indeed how could a paste consisting of sugar, fats and salt make something taste good? Truly a mystery.
9- Promote Travel Stuff (?)
( Family request ). I will contact some BC/Canadian tourism board/agencies and see if anyone has interest in the Salish Sea tour from 2024-2025: https://www.thepoxbox.com/posts/salishusa1
Though I have to say I feel the travel vlogging/blogging space on the internet is pretty saturated at this point but I do put a lot of work into blogs and travel books so might as well.