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<p>So it&#8217;s that time again, and some people are already busy doing typical new-year promises and future goals lists. <br />I&#8217;m no different, but I avoid promises I can&#8217;t keep and my goals are rather simple when compared with most of the population. </p>



<p>As life goes on, I just want to enjoy a growing relationship with my wife.<br />We have been together for 15 years now and I&#8217;m still learning new things about her. I find her beautiful and heartwarming. It&#8217;s like falling in love again.<br />As for my kids, I just want to watch them grow, my work schedule can be hard to conciliate with my family events and I&#8217;m not the most social person in the world. Never was and never will be and that I couldn&#8217;t change even if I wanted it. <br />I&#8217;m really friendly at work, but I rarely open up about my personal life, unless I really trust the person I&#8217;m talking to and that&#8217;s a rare occurrence.<br />I enjoy writing here, but I need to balance my privacy with the fact that lots of people I know can read my blog.</p>



<p>As for this blog, it&#8217;s now a mature project and I can do anything with it, expect some simple gear reviews and some surprises also, because why not.<br />Sadly, my country customs bureaucracy killed the idea of reviewing better gear sent by stores, but I&#8217;ll keep doing reviews of cheaper earphones or just gear I buy for my own use. I lost a lot of momentum when I was bricked walled by the Portuguese customs, but life goes on.</p>



<p>Most of my acquaintances don&#8217;t know but I&#8217;m a bit of an anime &#8220;otaku&#8221;, and as labels go, I kind of avoid that one if possible, because I&#8217;m now almost 40 years old and I don&#8217;t want to become a walking &#8220;How do you do, fellow kids&#8221; meme. <br />These days I&#8217;m enjoying the &#8220;Sword Art Online: Alicization&#8221; anime and reading the &#8220;Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku&#8221; manga (I actually bought the books, because I like it so much). <br />I have got some anime series I need to catch up with, but nothing too big, because I&#8217;m not really into the school setting anime series anymore. That&#8217;s why I love &#8220;Wotakoi&#8221; so much, I can relate to the characters. That doesn&#8217;t mean I won&#8217;t watch those school related shows, I&#8217;m watching &#8220;Alicization&#8221; after all. </p>



<p>As for personal goals, well, I really need to fix some stuff at home and I&#8217;m going to start that in 2019.<br />Also I&#8217;ll be taking some exams that are required for my job, so I might get a bit of stress this year, but without those exams I can&#8217;t work and pay my bills so I&#8217;m going to tackle those in a rather aggressive way.<br />Because of all of that, I&#8217;m going to write a bit less around here, but it will be worth it.<br />I might start selling some stuff on eBay next year, but only for Europe, that&#8217;s a less important goal but still a goal. It would be rather nice to have a little more income to help me out at the end of the month.</p>



<p>Going forward to 2019. <br />Wishing you all a great year.<br /><br /></p>
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