1/1/26

 I've decided that today is New Year's Day.

Happy New Year!

Why have I done this?

Well, why not? It's just a date.

These four dates represent the four
days I got rid of.

So, this year, 27/12/25 was New Year's Eve.

Am I really allowed to do this?

Well, Catholics are allowed to make stuff up all the time.

By biting an apple Eve effectively created sin. Original Sin.

Eve's the one on the right.
This is before clothes were invented.

God decided that all the rest of us should be born with Original Sin.

"Well hello sweety, I'm 
God the Son. He's talking 
about my daddy dear."

Because of God the Father's decision, the only way he, an all knowing god, could find to get out of it was to have his son crucified. Weird. He could have just snapped his fingers and said, "Original Sin is gone!"

Okay, moving right along.

I did quite a bit of practice yesterday, on both double bass and violin. I lost four days, so I didn't quite get to 365 hours for 2025. Never mind, I start my new practice diary today. I will endeavour to make 2026 a very good year for practice. Yesterday I started running through the 30 pieces in my repertoire. I got halfway through - up to number 15. Not too bad.

Pretty damn good, actually.

Peter wrote a new post on New Year's Eve. He titled it, "IT SMELLS LIKE CHRISTMAS."

The post contains five sentences.

FIVE SENTENCES!

There is one picture and,

as usual, a video tune.

An even shorter version of this very short post could have said, "I bought some flowers for my partner."

There was no post from Robert this morning. He was probably too busy welcoming the new year in by saying the Rosary. Maybe he decided to say it 26 times? I'm sure he wouldn't attempt to say it 2026 times.

Well, that's it for this New Year's Day. I hope you've all got New Year's Resolutions - they normally last for 2 1/2 weeks and contain things like:

• I'll go for a half hour walk every morning.
• I'll become fluent in Vietnamese.
• I'll only eat vegetables and fruit, definitely no ice cream.
• When I pee on the floor, I'll wipe it up.
• I'll listen to other people when they're talking.
• I'll proofread my blog posts.
• I'll practise my cello for 45 minutes every day.
• Goodbye tummy!
• I won't go on about having been in 3P in 1966.
• I won't quote Matthew or Luke in my blog posts.
• I'll practise my violin in my shed, as my neighbour requested.
• I won't keep going on about sin.
• I'll attempt to use the toilet less frequently.
• I'll keep my phone away from the bath.
• I'll try to enjoy Peter's posts.
• I won't put a music video on every post.

Buon anno.