New Year's Resolutions, Anyone?

Once again, I have failed to fulfill the expectation I put on myself, just for Christmas Vacation, aka "Winter Break." I meant to write down everything I did so I could look back and see what I did with all those free days and hours, but I gave up a couple of days ago. For one thing, I can't stand looking at my writing in the composition book. I have literally dozens of composition books around here filled with my terrible handwriting going back for decades, and i just can't deal with it. I resolve to be honest with as many people and in as many situations as I can in 2026. This will be my first New Year's Resolution. That is, if I actually do New Year's Resolutions. I don't know why I should. I can't even keep up with my plan to write everything down I did over break. How can I keep a resolution about anything for a whole year? Needless to say, I didn't make New Year's Resolutions last year. I have kept my resolution to write every day, since November 19, 2024. I am happy about that. I have pretty much stopped watching TV. I have cut down the screentime on my phone. I intend to keep up these practices. There is no way I can resolve to read all the books I have piled up in this apartment. There are too many. I am going to try to read Ron Chernow's Mark Twain book (I have started it). It is 1029 pages long before notes, bibliography and index. I wish I could read all my books, but I don't think I can do that if I live to be 100. I am so tired right now. I am not cold, just tired. I am thankful too. People have become very concerned for me because of my complaints about the cold. I am very happy it has gotten warmer again, but we are only beginning winter. The next couple of months will be dark and cold days and the electric bill will be higher. No, I will not go on the even plan they offer. I don't trust the electric company enough to do that. I am sure they take advantage of that. Besides, I like how much my electric bill is during all months except January and February. By this time of night, I am more tired than I was last year, I'm pretty sure. I am feeling my age more this year than last, I'm sure of that. It is inevitable, of course. I also get very tired of people asking me when I'm going to retire. Can't people think of other things to talk about? I have another reason for not worrying about things like politics. I have noticed that everybody dies. That is profound, isn't it? Of course, it is not profound, it is stupid, but what I mean by that is this: Our time on earth is very short, and we should be worrying about our own life, not constantly judging the affairs of the world and the silly people running everything. I have worried about politics enough, and maybe that should be a New Year's Resolution: I will not worry about politics in 2026. All the political figures die, and I will die, and everybody will die, so what's there to get all excited about? All the Trump haters, I wish they would get this. They are wasting their time. They are going to die. We are all going to die. Why don't we simply stop being nasty to each other? Marjorie Taylor Greene made a reel saying that, more or less, why don't we just respect each other, and I am in total agreement with her. People are just mean, especially when it comes to politics. I am not going to preach. I am just going to say I believe it will be a good year, not because of resolutions, but just because I see good things happening. I see God doing good things. I see things getting better, slowly, and my job hasn't changed. I am here to glorify God in any way that I can, and that makes everything a lot less complicated and stressful. Everybody else is free to do the same or do whatever they choose to do, but that's what I'm going to do. And that's about all I have right at the moment. And it's only 10:41. I should be able to read a little bit of "His Masterly Pen:a Biography of Jefferson the Writer" by Fred Kaplan (2022).