Much like last year, we kicked off the New Year with a puzzle. And, as you might expect, it’s one of the Funko puzzles we’ve come to love so much.

Much like last year, I’m going to combine my final goal recap of 2024 with my list of goals for 2025. I will start with the latter.

December is done. So is 2024. In an hour, anyway. We’re now a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Did that last factoid mess with your head as well? 

The cube collection grew by two this year. In fact, one of them isn’t even a proper cube.

I don't know why it feels so weird to me right now to type '24 at the end of the titles of these posts. It shouldn't, but it does. Anywho, here is the final year in review list for ‘24. Now I can start being weirded out by typing '25. Ugh.

Unlike my K7: Audio '24 list, this one is definitely gonna be numbered because I have zero issue ranking movies. There are clear winners here in my heart of hearts. So let's check 'em out!

I wasn't sure if I would actually get around to doing these lists this year. Half the month passed before I realized it and then it was a matter of steeling up the willpower to do it. I'm gonna try! And I'm starting with my K7: Audio list.

We got Nate an Apple Pencil for Christmas to go with the Procreate app he’s been wanting for a little while. We bought him the 2nd generation so it had magnetic charging on his iPad.

From all of us to all of you, Merry Christmas!

My company decided to try something new this year. Instead of giving us Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day off, the office is gonna close completely from Christmas Day through New Year’s Day.

Dear Santa,

Please give us the emotional fortitude to survive the next handful of years. We gonna need it.

That is all.

Sincerely, 

The World 

The following were created by a coworker presumably using AI image generation in response to requests from coworkers in Slack on how best to deal with the holidays.

It’s kinda funny when you receive this text message, presumably from your son’s middle school…

Oh how I love bad holiday memes and puns. I hope you do, too, or I’m gonna have to ask you to skip this post and move on to the next.

As a kid, I loved the original Superman and Superman II movies starring Christopher Reeve. He is and will always be Superman to me. I don’t care who else plays him, no one compares to Chris and nothing compares to those first two films.

When we first moved into our townhouse, it was part of a five year plan. As in, within that five years, we planned to move into a single family house.

Imagine seeing this walk into your middle school…

Katie found a new place to hang out Scrub Daddy to let it dry. The kitchen faucet handle. And now it looks like it’s sticking its tongue out at me.

Dammit! I was just sitting here innocently watching the Seahawks v Packers joke of a Sunday Night Football game while my wife was scrolling through her Instagram Reels and… WHAMAGEDDON!

For the last 20 days, I’ve been taking part in a book challenge on Bluesky. In it, you “Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.”

I had absolutely no idea that there was a second Friday the 13th happening this year. So it crept up on me and caught me completely off guard.

Damn. I’m halfway through the month and have yet to start writing my Kevin’s 7 year-end recaps. I almost don’t want to do it this year. I barely have anything for books and I don’t remember many of the new albums I’ve heard. The only list I’m prepared for is movies. Ugh. 

Yesterday when I went on a walk, I found this cool little stone. I liked how perfectly rounded it was so I picked it up and kept it.

Oh yay! It’s the calls from The Netherlands and Italy I’ve been waiting for all year long!

I discovered a prompt in Bluesky the other day that read, “What were the four albums that dropped when you were in high school that defined your music taste forever?” 

I love getting those “a-ha” moments when it comes to entertainment meaning I realize that one person I see doing something is the same as another person I know from somewhere else.

Nate is at a friend’s sleepover birthday party tonight leaving Katie and I with a rare night to ourselves. How do we play it up? We order out but bring it home to eat and throw on our pajamas to watch a pair of Netflix & Hallmark Christmas movies.

Yeah, we can party! 

Katie, Nate, and I celebrated my 50th birthday yesterday by doing something we never thought we would do to celebrate a birthday… we went to a concert.

Awwww yeah! Chicago linebacker era!

This is what happens when you don’t pay extra for additional accounts in Spotify.

We’re a Libby household. That’s an app that is used by many libraries for sharing electronic materials like ebooks and audiobooks with patrons.

Why do I soooooo want to do this? Buy a replica Jonathon Moxon jersey from the movie Varsity Blues direct from “Mox” himself James Van Der Beek. And 100% of the proceeds go to helping those suffering from cancer to pay for their treatment, including James.

Just when I thought it couldn’t zoom by any faster than October 2024, November comes along and says, “Hold my beer!”

November is over! Did I read? Boy, did I! Check this out!

They always say to “never judge a book by its cover.” I say that’s crap! I always judge books by their cover. But this applies to literal books, not figurative ones.