What are you looking forward to in 2024?

Being able to use “I’m 60” to complain about everything and use it as an excuse to get out of things I don’t want to do

This guy 60s
Livin the dream
You know what, I’m gonna say this too even though I’m not that age yet.
“Why is your rizz so bad?” “Shit sorry I’m 60”

I have a test to become an air traffic controller coming up in December. If I pass I'll have the interview and school to look forward to next year.

That's awesome, good luck!
- Thanks! right now I'm so nervous I'm nauseous some times...

At work - recruiting another team member, so we are not all constantly plate spinning and I might actually have chance to spend time planning.
At home - finally getting the pictures etc up on the walls.
Nationally - voting the Tories out.

Finding employment

The job market has been unbelievably brutal this last year
Same. Specifically, remote employment.
- Well, good luck to us 💪
Same. Lucky enough to find something part time but there’s so many people applying for everything it’s crazy. Best of luck!

come out, maybe?

Hope it goes well!

Hopefully putting myself out there more. I have a spinning and weaving guild that I've joined, but I've been too burnt out to go to any of the meetings. 😓

You go to that, I'll go to the cross stitch group I've been avoiding out of general nervousness. Deal?
- Deal. 💙
- Ok, then I check upon you in a month.

I hope that orange bastard Trump goes to prison or dies in 2024. I prefer prison because he needs to pay for his crimes, but dead is good too. The only thing is it would have to be a really dumb accident out in public so there wouldn’t be any conspiracy theories. Maybe he could fall off the stairs while getting off his plane and crack his skull on the tarmac.

People debate whether we landed on the moon - one of the wisest watched televised events ever. I would be surprised if a Livestream of him doing just that would be enough to avoid dozens of conspiracy theories.

Being able to say "oh that was x+1 years ago" instead of "x years ago" when reflecting on all my past traumas.

Paying off the last of my credit card debt.

Same here. Had a car unexpectedly die and the new car lease messed up our financial plans. Should have our CC debt paid off by the end of next year.

The new Dune film.

Do we know who's playing the emperor yet? I'm hoping for either Sting or Christopher Walken.
- Christopher Walker confirmed to be playing the Emperor, while Sting will have a surprise cameo role playing himself.

the irish reunionification

Wow, that'd be wild

If you want to heal your depression, then your desires are completely out of order...
Let me renumerate and reorder your list.
-Understand that desire or lack of fruition is useless pain, you are in control of desire
-Contemplate why you must escape where you are, where you want to go, why you want to be there, and what you need to do so.
-Obtain certifications or educational notes as they are needed
The rest of the list is needless and will fall into place one way or another. Men think they run to a destination, when most often they run from.

Finally buying a decent ARM laptop that isn't a macbook.

What laptop will that be?
- Pretty much all the major brands are reportedly going to make laptop models with the Snapdragon X Elite chip, so any one of those really. I'm probably going to buy a Lenovo one since they have a good track record.
I’m curious to see how this pans out when they start to ship. The hardware looks really promising, but I’m curious about the rollout for software support.
I’m excited to see real benchmarks from shipping laptops with off-the-shelf software.
The hardware isn’t the issue (well, it won’t be much longer) it’s the software that doesn’t exist that is.
- But nobody on the software side will take porting to arm seriously if the hardware doesn't exist. Some essentials like browsers and the adobe suite got ported to arm already but as soon as there's an actual audience lots more people will bother putting out arm builds.

A miracle keeping the orange fuhrer out of politics and news, perhaps a conviction with actual time to be served. I know, I’m calling for a miracle as I said.

My first daughter is due in March, so pretty much just that!

I definitely read this as your first daughter being pregnant and you becoming a grandparent.
- I didn't even think about that! Yet another thing for me to mull over as I mentally prepare myself for parenthood.

I’m really excited to start working with the engineers at work to learn how to rework the broken boards that go in the products we produce. I don’t know much about electronics and I’ve certainly never been to college, but I’ve apparently displayed an aptitude for understanding stuff so they wanna work with me to get the ball rolling. They’ve been able to convince management that my bench in the RMA department needs all the equipment a rework station should have. It’s all super exciting and I can’t wait to start.

That's awesome! Hope it goes well

The new ones (post like ‘18 or ‘19) don’t have that issue I thought? You don’t see reports of Tellurides being stolen, it’s all 2010 forte shitboxes

I’ll be getting my PhD in the Spring! Hopefully I’ll have a job lined up before graduating.

Congrats. What in?
- Computer Science! My work is on applied machine learning for software analytics.

Honestly, nothing really. It feels like each year more fucked up things are happening, so I lost the positivity I had for the upcoming years.

Don't get me wrong I am in a good place personally, but with all the stuff going on in the world it sometimes feel hard to believe it's gonna get better any time soon.

Same - I’m a natural optimist and live a good life. But I can’t see any solutions for the horrors of the world. I only see new disasters brewing up, and being backed by more and more people.
But I’m finally starting in my new position at work next year and that good for me.
Same. I only have the ability to directly control a few things in my life and the rest is just constantly getting worse thanks to the actions of other people. Optimistic for me is just being able to tread water at this point and I'm not optimistic.

The obvious impending economic collapse.

Because boy, if it doesn't come, we're all pretty fucked.

Moving my family back home after caring for an elderly parent for 3 years.

One-Punch Man Season 3

If he was really "One-Punch Man" he'd have wrapped it up in the first episode.
Just kidding! I'm also looking forward to it.

Looking forward to more Viltrumite vs. Viltrumite

Perhaps 2024 will be the year of the girlfriend
Making money over the summer and upgrading to a faster motorcycle

I got tired of jumping around between streaming services to get deals and save money. I noticed that a couple major music streamers seemed to collude to raise rates at the same time, and I'm tired of that. I'm setting up my Plex server with some Black Friday deals and am looking forward to enjoying having that at my disposal.

getting into my dream college probably

I too have dreams of lots of pictures
- lol damn autocorrect

My Apollo plush arriving.

Transitioning.

As in changing sex? Or in general in life?
- Glasses. Like those lenses i think?
- Gender transition.

Winning an Oscar for the first time! (Hopefully)

We believe in you ❤ . If Barbie loses anything its up for, the Oscars will have lost all credibility.
Username checks out lol

Getting back surgery (and fixing the problem, instead of, like, not ever being able to walk again). Then getting the green light at work so I can start work on a project I've proposed. And lastly, getting one of my side projects past the finish line.

getting a job and socializing more

Either die or get a job. Not picky on which one.

Monkeypaw: You die and get the position of ferryman ushering souls across the river Styx.
- job security.... hows the health plan?

I'm starting a new job in January, which will give me financial stability and job security for the first time in years. It means I can go back to University and pursue my dream of becoming a zoologist, heck I'll even be able to take a holiday with my girlfriend without worrying about rent!

Do you have a planning on getting into academia/research?

Nothing huge yet.

Got a milestone birthday coming up but not sure what to do for it, once I have plans that'll be something exciting.
I've been working on learning gamedev as a hobby for a couple years and hope to release my first proper actual commercial game next year too which is pretty cool.
No holidays planned as of yet but we normally do that over the Christmas hols.
Also we may or may not get a dog.

I need more things for this list lol

Going skiing and visiting hot springs in Japan

Starting to restore a 1964 corvette

Maybe learning to paint pottery

Season 4 of The Boys

Release of KDE Plasma 6

KDE Plasma 6

traveling abroad for the first time. pretty much my number 1 bucket list item

The big difference with Europe. I live in Belgium and I can visit 4 countries that are less then a 2 hour drive.
I've never been outside of Europe though.. So I guess I have to compare it with that.

The possibility of getting hit by a bus

It won't be a game changer, I'm afraid. It will basically enable them to keep doing the same thing sustainably, but F-16s still have a shortage of range compared to top Russian jets and can't fight back when they show up. Gripens might be a bigger deal, but Turkey isn't letting the Swedes into NATO yet.
For 2024, if the war ends, it will be thanks to the Russians giving up or politically imploding.

Dune

Finding a way to deal with my ADHD so I don't drown in clusterness at home & eating healthier food, on a regular basis

Those two would help me a lot and improve my QoL as a whole!

Here's one little thing that's helped me a tad. I make my bed every day, first thing in the morning. It feels good to start the day out with at least one thing just done and in its place.

Being in the top 3 men in a small running race

It's the 1%!!!! Geddim boys!

I'm going to 36 weeks of military training that will also be a substantial pay cut from my civilian career, but worth it in the long run as it'll be the necessary experience to switch my civilian career to my field of interest. Not looking forward to the training, but I'll be in such a better spot once I'm finished. Looking forward to that!

gl on that 👍

Death

You may be joking but if not, there's always people willing to help. You're not alone.
- Just feel like the world is doomed is all

Remodeling my bathroom, getting my hip fixed so I can go back to not skipping leg day, and possibly a trip to the Tetons.

Hopefully my garage/addition will be built next year and I can finally start working on cars indoors again. I'm turning 40 next year, not looking forward to that so I may not even have a party. Hopefully going to find different employment again, I have an interview on Monday for something I'm far from qualified for but I'm giving it a shot anyway, if it doesn't pan out I'm trying to take the test for an emergency dispatcher position that starts in January and if I have the fortitude I might try to get in to nursing school but I'm on the fence about that.

I have a newborn niece by my brother-in-law. His fiancee also has two young boys from a previous marriage. I am looking forward to opportunities to build my relationship as an uncle with the boys. My brother and husband both don't want kids, so it sounds like this will be the only real chance to have a close family relationship with Generation Alpha.

Have you stockpiled skibidi videos? I hear that’s like currency on schoolyards.
- Interestingly, they are into a lot of the card games that were popular when I was a kid like Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and D & D. We are thinking about giving them a trip to a game shop for Christmas and some money for games.

Camping

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf

The end of 2023.

I need to go to Japan and have Ramen!

The election circus

Hopefully staying fit, making some new memories with friends, making music, appreciating the time I've got here as much as I can.

having kids

The start of the 99% being broken enough to start fighting back and eating the rich and over throwing government and basic utilities.

Then the slow and inevitable collapse of society in general.

Getting a nice-ish car. Hopefully electric.

I'm gonna play a new campaign in D&D. And I DM a different one, where I am going to play with some homebrew stuff I made up myself, so I'm really hyped for that!

cheap energy

Spacex SpaceShip going orbital and hopefully landing.

Suicide? It doesn't take courage to do that, it takes courage to live on.
Please seek help if you are considering suicide - you've got nothing to lose and everything to gain by living.

I initially misread this as 2014 and I am actually surprised I was a bit excited. Like if the past decade was a coma dream or something, wow that would have been ideal. Ah. Anyway.

I’m looking forward to physical therapy rehab in the spring, maybe feeling good and healthy again. And then seeing Taylor Swift in Vienna in late summer. Hopefully by then, Trump is either dead or in prison. Hopefully prison first.

For people on the Internet to grow a pair and stop being such pussies and then advocate for censorship because their fee fees got hurt.

I realize that's asking way too much.