Wow, I can't believe 2025 is now almost over. It feels like it just started several months ago! There have been a few changes this year, mostly for the better, but let me start from the beginning...

JANUARY
I attend Anthro New England 2025, where as the private toon detective Sam Valentino I solve the Staggering Case of Copley's disappearance, with assistance from Inspector Ferdi!
I begin getting in some more part-time work with my college campus in digitizing more analog video.

FEBRUARY
Not much happens, except for my brother getting appendicitis and my needing to help him out.

MARCH
I go see "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" at the cinema and really enjoy it! Its modest success leads to "Coyote vs. ACME" finally getting a theatrical release planned, much to the joy of Looney Tunes fans everywhere.
I start getting in some appearances as K-O the Kangaroo to promote the Brockton Rox's "Revival Season," back in the Minors as part of the Frontier League!

APRIL
I upgrade from a 2nd-gen iPhone SE to an iPhone 14, meaning significant upgrades in storage and camera! And I can even use it when in fursuit with my paws on!

MAY
I go to my first furry meetup picnic, at the Boston Common.
The Brockton Rox season begins, with better crowds than the past few years!
I attend Anime Boston 2025, once again in the guise of Sam Valentino, where more furries than usual attended this year!

JUNE
The Rox introduces another mascot, with K-O's brother Champ! It quickly becomes fun to work with a partner mascot at the games.

JULY
Halfway through the Rox season, things get busier for both me and Champ.

AUGUST
I attend Fan Expo Boston 2025, where Jim Cummings gets to see my Big Bad Wolf Daddy cosplay!
The Looney Tunes cartoons are added to Tubi, and so good times continue to roll for WB cartoon fans.
The Rox season ends on a high-note with epic tie-breaker victories, even if we don't get into the playoffs.

SEPTEMBER
Not a lot happens, though with the Rox season over I continue my hunt for a new I.T. job as I get in a little part-time work with the college TV studio.

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER
I'm back to doing off-season K-O appearances in autumn, now things are pretty much back to normal behind-the-scenes.
I attend Furpocalypse 2025, this time rooming with one of my good furry friends who's just my age, along with getting there via Amtrak (my car has since been repaired, though!)
I get hired to work for another electronics recycling/reselling company, my first full-time I.T. job! While it still runs me kind of ragged and my anxiety cases vary, I feel good knowing I'm financially secure.
I go see "Zootopia 2" at the cinema and really enjoy it.

DECEMBER
Another non-traditional Christmas in the family.


And that pretty much covers the main happenings of this past year. As expected with a new job, there are some ups and downs of working there, but I am still hoping the ups will outnumber the downs, and it won't end up being too much like back when I was in high school (as a couple of unfortunate things that happened there did, but luckily the others there are very understanding of my being on the spectrum). Plus, we get paid holidays; after three days off in a row thanks to Christmas, this upcoming week I will have New Year's Day off followed by the day after (inventories will be taken, requiring only the supervisors to be coming into work that day). So this has been helping me out. I REALLY hope things keep on getting better and better there, and they make me want to work there for a good long time - unless of course I get an even better job offer elsewhere.

My most popular YouTube video I've uploaded this year is one I produced last month, hopping on the "...ruined by AI" meme bandwagon showing off how incredibly unreliable and fail-prone AI art and animation can be...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Xb8kgnxvA
Naturally I did this of the late 1960s Warner Bros.- Seven Arts Looney Tunes, because of their status on my YouTube channel for having produced quite a few YTPs of them.

Of course I can't monetize those kinds of videos, but I CAN monetize my fursuit vlogs and other similar projects. I've been making a decent amount of extra income through monetizing said videos; a few months ago I finally got up into the triple digits for my monthy amounts of revenue I make!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_m4ls8g_uE
This is my most popular fursuit vlog this year, discussing how Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the USA still use older masters of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" when airing the show. Most of the episodes were from masters Turner prepared around 1996, but "Go Away Ghost Ship" takes it further by having aired as its older pre-Turner syndication print for over 20 years now, all washed-out and sped up (from PAL speed conversion) and with no laugh track, painfully sticking out like a sore thumb on Cartoon Network and Boomerang's high-definition feeds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYoIWBBVZRs
Speaking of which, a lot of behind-the-scenes drama has been going on with Warner Bros. Discovery in the latter part of this year, with a bidding war going on to see who buys them. Right now it appears Netflix will end up getting the Warner Bros. studio and library and streaming assets, and to be honest it'd be a LOT better than if Paramount-Skydance got Warner Bros. Discovery (but thankfully Warner and David Zaslav keep turning them down), not to mention all the legal hurdles getting in the way! A pretty nerve-wracking time to be a Warner Bros. cartoon fan, in addition to the hurdles with my new job. For some of my Warner -related Sam Valentino vlogs, my local furry friend  lirie, who has a pretty good Scooby-Doo costume, has been co-starring in them with me!

Me and my Furpoc roommate  squirrellyjay also plan to room together at Anthro New England 2026, less than three weeks away now! Like I've said, they're going to have a Western theme, and so I've got a cowboy outfit prepared for Zak Wolf to wear for most of the time I'm at the con! Later in April, I also plan to be going to Furcationland in Portland, Maine, as my next out-of-state con to attend, thanks to my now having a full-time job that makes going to such cons easy for me to afford. But I am also hoping that with 2026, as long as I keep working this job and things go well and soon things improve with my brother's job, he and I can finally get an apartment to live in together and make another big step in independence! And so, I am ready to see what 2026 will bring us...