personal calendar

• ✔ 01: new year's day
• 13: zoo
• 18: sarah
• 20: inauguration

swap calendar

• ✔ 03: round robin #194
• ✔ 04: scattergories 'k' round 15
• ✔ 06: 4 vintage pcs #5
• ✔ 09: vintage tourist card #53
• ✔ 10: used stamp chain card round 57
• ✔ 10: round robin #195
• ✔ 10: blind/naked vintage pc to 2 partners #2
• ✔ 11: scattergories 'l' round 15
• 15: usa national or state parks postcards #2
• 15: scavenger hunt postcards #27
• 16: playing card destash
• 17: round robin #196
• 18: scattergories 'm' round 15
• 20: frankendivination deck #7
• 24: round robin #197
• 25: scattergories 'n' round 15
• 31: january 2025 postcard swap usa only
• 31: january 2025 postcard sdwap international
• 31: round robin #198

news & the world

• california fires
  • a drone collided with a firefighting aircraft flying over the palisades fire
  • percent contained (as of 01/12) - (source)
    • oak fire: 100%
    • auto fire: n/a
    • archer fire: 100%
    • woodley fire: 100%
    • palisades fire: 14%
    • hurst fire: 97%
    • eaton fire: 33%
    • tyler fire: 100%
    • olivas fire: 100%
    • lidia fire: 100%
    • sunset fire: 100%
    • kenneth fire: 90%
• f1: spa-francorchamps 2026, 2027, 2029, 2031
• jimmy carter state funeral
• justin trudeau to resign as canada's prime minister
• winter storm - in pictures
  • 9 inches here
• poppy - the new pygmy hippo born at the metro richmond zoo
• cybertruck fireworks explosion in las vegas outside trump hotel
• new orleans truck attack
  • sugar bowl postponed

media

• 🎞️ conclave (2024)
• 📖 cult following: the extreme sects that capture our imaginations - and take over our lives, by j.w. ocker
• 💯 birds
• 📖 ten birds that changed the world, by stephen moss
• 🎨 paper cranes
• 📺 files of the unexplained (2024)
• 🎶 doechii, alligator bites never heal (2024)

new lists

• 2025 keep calm mosaic cal
• postal bulletins
• january wishlist
• birdbuddy species visited
• 2025 books
• 2025 movies
• 2025 television
• 2025 music
• postcrossing 2025
• geopostcards 2025
• postcard united 2025

monthly tracking

• podcasts
• knit & crochet