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December 2025 hiking summary
December, being the end of the year and a month with fickle weather, is often lighter on hiking – the hikes are closer to home and shorter, and it’s pretty much just a treat at the end. But even that can end up being memorable. In both good and bad ways. December 2025 proved to…
Heading into 2026
Another year has passed, so it’s time to reflect as well as to look forward. When this year started, I was thinking about how the focus on hiking had led to neglecting other hobbies, and part of my goals for 2025 was to find a better balance. This affected my goals for 2025, and I…
12/2025 Summary
December is almost over, and given that the last three days are expected to be calmer workdays, I decided to pass my judgment on the month already (though I’ll judge the year as a whole next week). December is always a bit different – with some preparations for Christmas as well as wrapping up some…
Book review: Sylvanas
Sylvanas Windrunner has been a major character of the Warcraft universe for a long time, and one of the most controversial ones. This book promised deeper insight into her, though it wasn’t exactly what I expected. Sylvanas first appeared in the Warcraft 3 game, though she wasn’t the first character of her family to appear…
Writing: unexpected blind spots
Writers tend to have quite an active imagination and can come up with scenarios some people wouldn’t even imagine. But we can also have unexpected blind spots in our knowledge about… quite mundane or common things. Those blind spots might be quite simple – as a general example, I live without a car as I…
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