Well if nothing else, the New Year’s message for 2017 as what I usually do on Ooh Sometimes will for sure be different.

For the past few years, I’d been writing some general platitudes about how it’s been a year since last I wrote anything like before and how people up and down the world will be celebrating the end of a year and with it, the beginning of a fresh new year, where, well as it stood, not much will have changed.

Well, this one isn’t going to be that way.

Nope, instead we’re just going to state what for many will be the obvious. 2016 was just a complete pile of rotten sh*t with a sprinkling of good bits here and there for many in the first world, and then even worse in other countries. Major events in the world, have come to overshadow everything we currently are doing, with the consequences of that set to play out in 2017.

Brexit, which is due to start in March, and of course on the 20th of January, We get President Trump coming in and with it, the sense of any progress mankind has made, begins to fade. Various wars continued to rage on, we lost just far too many good and talented people and really, everyone else for the most part have been suffering in one form or another trying to make it through it all. Worse than that, I never got to use that last bottle of pancake mix in the cupboard! BASTARD!

For my own selfish part (may as well, seeing as I own this damned blog!) it’s not been much fun. In the height of the summer, I basically lost it and had to resort to somewhat excessive measures to get back to some semblance of sanity. This caused a lot of meh by itself, and for the most part, I’ve succeeded. Now I’m just the lazy geeky asshole you all hate and despise again! Hooray!

So in many ways, 2017 already has a lot of horrible things in store for all of us, and a lot of it, now really is out of our hands. It would be too easy to get swept up in all of it, and lose our minds, if we hadn’t already lost them. The only conclusions we can draw from 2016 is that life is hilariously cruel with occasional good bits sprinkled throughout. Humans are f*cking stupid too, come to think of it.

So I’m going to be making a list of things to do for 2017, not resolutions, just stuff to try and do. In a way it will be getting off the merry-go-round that we’re all stuck on right now and just concentrate on the stuff like matters. Like Marvel films, ladies and doing whatever feels like fun. F*ck it, I’m only living once and if I can help it, I want to continue what the year has ended on, in a much better personal state than before. Whatever form that takes and wherever it takes me, I hope it’s got some sex sprinkled in somewhere too! What, even the Lord of Leisure needs naughty you know!

I only wish you all that you personally have a grand 2017, because collectively, we’re in for a rough ride of it all and we’re just going to have to keep fighting the good fight against the forces of meh. Oh, and completely take the p*ss out of Donald Trump all the time, while he attempts to lie, cheat and blame everyone else for problems while he also makes money on the side from it all.

Take it easy where you can campers!