Today, set up my 4th new (dumb) phone of 2025, all of the others were buggy or just didn't work as advertised. The returning process for the last one took many hours today. Plus, wrapped the last of my Christmas gifts, and printed my 2026 calendar, which I now create myself. This allows me to use individual A4 sheets (much easier to manipulate and write on), and set my personal custom dates.
All day has taken this.
Nastee Chapel reported £40 of CD sales of Christmas Tails and donated the whole sum, taking the total over the final total for the Snow Business.
I looked at my music stats for 2025 and noted that my most popular Christmas song is 'Away from Her Manger' (good, this is for me my best) in South Korea. My overall most popular song is 'Back When It All Began' from Secret Electric Sorcery; both of these on TikTok, the music was probably in the background of some user-created video. These stats often lag months behind and I've not been a year with my new distributor yet, so all of the stats are loose guidance. No sales of even one track, just many fragments across streaming and social platforms.
I still feel that everything I've done is half as good as it could be, as it should be, and the effort required to remaster and polish everything seems immense; but, I'll keep working at it each day, and hopefully keep improving (which, if I succeed, will lead to similar feelings for all eternity; growth in excellence necessarily makes the past look shoddy).
Onwards we stride. Today, our rock feels a little bigger but a little lighter.
