I've been taking it easy for the last days of the year, cooked a lot, walked a lot. I've been re-reading SICP and idly poking at a silly Lisp system. I don't have any specific goal for it beyond exploring low-level symbolic computing.
After watching a documentary about the Newton, I found myself reading about the ways to convert hand-written letters into their digital representations, and soon found myself inventing my own little shorthand calligraphy and interpreter.