My first prediction, I’ll make New Year’s resolutions. Though I don’t always blog about it I talk about making some every year.
A quick, non-exhaustive list.
- Same as it ever was (a recap of 2017’s in 2019).
- Resolutionary (early 2017 recap).
- End (2016).
- Wrapping (2015).
World and domestic political events are a difficult thing for me to talk about publicly. I’ve no influence and so often keep my views private. You’ll find examples on this blog where internalising just takes too long. Hoping my views are on the right side of history. Searching my blog with a term I carefully pre-selected might be useful to at least start to determine my character.
Anyway, 2025?
- The Ukraine war will end.
- The Israel vs Gaza/Lebanon/Iran/Syria/common decency/etc. conflicts will end.
- Lawmakers in the USA will start the process of changing the amendments to their Constitution to make it easy for unlimited terms for incumbents they like.
- Still-active emergency powers in the USA will be used against anyone the people in power do not like.
- The United Kingdom’s politicians will lurch towards the right, populism will become the de-facto way of engaging with the public.
- The NFL’s Cleveland Browns will win more games than this abysmally unrelenting 2024 season.
- I’ll get a new car to replace my 15 year-old people carrier/minivan. Not looking forward to the upcoming repair bills before that happens.
- I’ll execrice. exorcise. exa. Er… do exercise. Having a puppy now nearly 6 months old helps a lot with basic fitness. Heck, I even ran a couple of times with her the last couple of days. Not prolonged, incorporated into more of a fartlek-style walk
You’ve my oldest daughter to blame for this, I was only going to say I’d eat more healthily in the new year.
Some of her predictions are:
- King Charles passes away.
- Trisha Paytas has a new baby. [Who she?]
- Cancelled influencers gain redemption by becoming less self-centred.
- US terrorist attack on a major city, either Chicago or San Francisco.
- Twitter shuts down, either eschewing a physical headquarters or eliminating links within ‘X’ entirely.
- My Chemical Romance’s 5th album.
- More CEO deaths, not restricted to the health insurance industry.
- Jimmy Fallon gets cancelled or loses influence in an altogether more final way.
- Chappell Roan becomes a full country.
- The UK retirement ages rise. Again.
- The UK Heath Secretary is fired, not for an affair but for corruption.
There were more but I’ve determined that it’s now teatime!
