Filed my 2025 taxes today (electronically). Payments mailed (physically).
Earliest in at least a decade, maybe two.
Took a very conscious and deliberate effort to get here. Prioritizing, cutting or postponing anything non-urgent, iterating and improving systems year over year (especially in coordination with an accountant), collecting clustering materials earlier, and more.
Completing these kinds of "required" tasks/projects sooner feels like it frees up mental (and emotional) bandwidth (not having them occupying daily thoughts) to dream, brainstorm, and make more creative things.
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It’s a sad day for those of us leveraging our Claude fixed-price plans with OpenClaw. I don’t blame Anthropic one bit. It wasn’t a sustainable situation, but it sure was fun while it lasted.
One thing that is not clear to me — at my current level of usage, what would my bill look like for a month?
Time to immediately consider buying another M4 Mac Mini, or a Mac Studio that can replace my current primary Mac Mini.
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The BC-250 PC is in its new home in Palm Desert. My son and I have already had a lot of fun with it, and we've kicked off a Baldur's Gate campaign from scratch now that he's a D&D expert. Fun!
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