The #yearly_roundup of things that I enjoyed in 2025. As in the previous year, I am still trying to find joy in little things.

1. Liverpool FC, and the story of their unexpected Premier League title. I was there for the parade and it was an amazing experience.
2. Writing about Liverpool. Heart as big as Liverpool is my favorite.
3. Reading. A Gentleman in Moscow was an absolute gem, and I recently just discovered Five Decembers.
4. Watching Homeland (picking up where I left off several years ago)
5. iPhone Air. The kind of thing that you must hold to feel. Probably will go back to Pro for the next model, but the amazingly thin titanium frame puts it up there with the 4s and X models.
6. Nice (France) and its sorroundings.
7. All things considered, it’s nice being part of this world in which we are living now. Not perfect, but better than anything else we’ve got.

Yearly stats 2025:

• 8000 pages read (down from 10300)
• 20 books read (down from 33)
• 5.04m steps (down from 5.10)
• 535 exercise hours (up from 498)
• 3730 kms covered (down from 3870)
• 270 Mcal energy burned (up from 259)
• 7h 53m slept on average (up from 7h 52m)

1. Kevin Costner 😋 The guy is absolutely brilliant
2. The references to other related movies (W/M logo – referencing BCS, ‘They fucked Teddy’ – BB, etc)
3. The soundtrack. Just check it out!
4. The humour. “I’m here for the show”, “You brought a lot of Russians”…
5. The pace. Not too rushed, not too slow.

Watch Nobody (2021 Movie)

Apropos of this, here’s an actual astronaut and really cool space guy talking about the science of the space movies:

Bonus – the same guy talking to Andy Weir about The Martian.