Happy New Year! Now begins the one to two month period where I constantly write the wrong year. It’s also, what I feel like, the beginning of winter here. No more holidays to look forward to, only grey skies, cold weather, and snow until May. We’ll have to find some fun, indoor activities, to do with little Kluwes now that the weather has actually turned colder. She hates being cooped up in the house on the weekends and, to be fair, so does my wife. I on the other hand, could never step foot outside our house while it’s cold and be perfectly content until Spring! We’ve got a membership to our local Children’s Museum which I foresee getting a lot of use out of in the near future.

After taking a lot of time off gaming last year I feel ready to jump back in and lay out some goals. Not for the 2025 quite yet, I still need to take some time to think about those. But I’ve got a couple ready to go for January:

Explore the Road to the Black Sea DLC in ETS2: After completing the Greece event last month, I was ready to leave the country and explore some more of the map. I liked the rules of the rules of the event: Deliver to or from every city in Greece with a distance of 200km or more. It made me think a little more about what job to take next and I felt like I got to explore more than I would have otherwise. With that in mind, I thought I would do the same thing with each DLC. My last job from Greece landed me in Istanbul, Turkey which is part for the Road to the Black Sea DLC. This includes the countries of Romania, Bulgaria, and the European part of Turkey. The Steam page says there are 20 major populated cities which is only 5 more than Greece so I think this is do-able this month.

Play games I bought during the Winter Sale: I had some restraint this time around with the Winter Sale. Even if I wasn’t playing all that much last year, I was still buying games, which in retrospect, seems a bit silly. So I set out to only buy a handful of games that looked interesting in the moment or had been on my wishlist for a while and were at a good price. I picked up three games for $15, which I was happy with.

Post 8 times this month: This went well last month so I’m doing it again! It was the right amount of post to target to keep me feeling engaged with the blog but not overwhelmed by it.