Happy New Year Everyone,
I’m back with my first Actifit Report and Update for the year. It has been a very cold start to the year. Thick frost every morning so far. Hamlet and Lily’s water bowl is frozen almost every morning, and so is the water in the hose. I need to bring them buckets of water. Hamlet the Happy Pig is feeling the cold. The new hay bales are helping a lot to keep her warm. She’s not wasting them this time. I guess she has grown a little wiser with age. Lily goat doesn’t seem bothered at all by the cold. I think her wool helps a lot.
I’m doing the final touches on the new book. I feel happy with where it’s at. The content flows pretty well. There are no obvious inconsistencies. There are still plenty of loose ends, but that was my intention. The third book and short stories will address all of them.
In 2025, I’ll be focusing on short stories. These will help further develop characters for the final book, which I plan to publish in the first quarter of 2027. Sapien Loop has quite a few characters. It is not possible to flesh out all of them within the main story. Otherwise, the books will become too long, and the flow would be interrupted.
On Hive, I have posted twice since my previous update. I posted the results of the Christmas Contest and I have posted about bringing my published papers to Hive.
The Christmas Contest had a good turnout. Several of the responses were fairly strong and in the spirit of the contest. This is one of my favourite contests, but we’ll have to wait a year for the next one. The Sapien Loop quiz will return later this month. I think I need to change a few things to attract more participants. Asking people to read the whole book has pushed the numbers down.
When I worked for the Queensland Government, I wrote around a dozen papers for conferences and journals. These papers are still available online but are very difficult to find. The links to these papers keep changing as they are moved around. I fear one day, they will no longer be available. This will be the case if conferences are discontinued.
Therefore, I decided to post them to Hive. This is not such a straightforward task. I need to convert footnotes to endnotes, pull out embedded images, convert equations into images, and include a brief introduction to the paper. I hope to have all of them posted by the end of the month.
In the next few days, I will post my NFL playoff and Super Bowl predictions. See if I can get it right this year. I came close last year. I predicted one of the Super Bowl teams, and I also predicted the winner in my first attempt.
Okay, that wraps up this Actifit Report and Update. I wish everyone an amazing week. Take care.
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