Pretty self-evidently the most “warmest while most painful” to remember, this was the last Christmas “all of us” got to be with each other, back in Saudi. I clearly recall Christmas eve, I spent all night working on WGA KRACKER, something I still count as one of my best works in my life; something that started out an entire stream of interest in security and… stuff. In any case, I think it’s best I don’t linger on what was or wasn’t, or who no longer is.
Didn’t do 2019 because of things I probably brought on myself for no reason, neither did I do 2020. I can’t stress enough about how retarded I was… I still don’t sleep over things that those years saw, at times.
For ‘Xmas 2022, I’d left clues around public places in Seattle, to hidden underneaths of tables, treehouse office meeting rooms (across both Amazon and Microsoft campuses), including clues left in Git repository branches and stuff… 3 teams playing to get their Christmas gifts (codes entered on a page (Christmas gift treasure hunt ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)) on my website) – In the end, they’d all have to work together to unlock a lockbox, which had the fob to the trunk:
Stage 3 – G3 | Dreamersion), the final lockbox, and the loot it unlocks.
Like I said, I hoped to “double” the fun in a following Christmas but… Yeah, December 2023 wasn’t… I don’t remember much since.
‘Xmas 2025 was alright, I’m thankful my mum got to join me. For once, I self-admittedly needed help to pull out of “things” I’d “gotten myself too familiar with” since December 2023, and … it’s been the first couple contiguouslyclear–headed (iykwim) months I’ve had since… I don’t know, 2020, maybe, which brought to painful light how so much was wasted away on me. Anyway, back to Christmas itself, there was no hunt, still didn’t have the energy to outdo things, maybe… next year, I don’t know, God mercy.
