My Holiday Wishlist and Resolution Bundle

1. My oldest daughter will have a healthy baby this coming May
2. No more “Semi-Annual”, “Monthly”, “Broad”, channel weirdness. Just “Ring0”, “Ring1”, etc.
3. The ConfigMgr console gets real drag-and-drop support
4. An international conference agrees to broker all acronyms.  No more dual-meanings
5. Azure adds a normal UX-efficient desktop style UI, instead of the stupid tablet-style “blade” UI
6. Azure Automation Runbooks testing allows viewing the last test output WHILE in the runbook editor (without cheating)
7. A 14 inch HP/Dell/Lenovo/Acer laptop with Core i7, 16 gb memory, NVME boot storage and room for an SSD for under $500
8. Azure Automation Runbooks testing process displays real-time output
9. Ubuntu bundles WMI-compliant CIM into the standard distribution, with an API exposed to PowerShell Core
10. My dog would stop farting in my office while I’m on business calls
11. Intune would add equal inventory granularity with ConfigMgr to leverage inventory data for reports, policies, targeting, etc.
12. ConfigMgr would update the little tragically-underfed homeless query editor
13. People would stop carding me when I order an adult beverage even though I look like Moses’ beardless brother
14. Microsoft would release a new Windows client that blocks ANY installs except .MSI or .MSIX – period. No exceptions ever.
15. Roku would add a TV volume control to their phone app (I don’t care if it’s technically feasible, I want it)
16. Notepad++ would include a snippets library feature as f-ing awesome as TextPad has always had (sorry, but the add-ins all suck)
17. My son would stop leaving his underwear on the bathroom floor when taking a shower
18. The number of blogs/podcasts/videos showing how to install and configure things would balance out with the blogs/podcasts/videos showing how to use the cool features (the balance still favors installation complexity, which is unfortunate, unless you’re a consultant, cough cough)
19. Someone would actually read up to item 19
20. Get a monthly PowerShell users group off the ground here, finally
21. Santa adds to my shot-glass collection.  I still need about a dozen more US cities
22. Santa brings us a better harness for turd brain (aka “snuggle turd”, aka “stinky brain”, aka “Dory”, aka my 100lbs chocolate lab from Mars)
23. Santa shoves a whole Roland TDK30 kit down our broken chimney
24. Start going to bed earlier
25. Write another book (it’s been awhile)
26. Increase my studying efforts / attend more user groups and conferences
27. Stop rambling on long blog lists about silly stuff like holiday wishlists
28. Build more projects in my garage
29. 29 is a weird number to run out of wishlist ideas.  I should add things like ending cancer and world hunger, stopping all wars, making all politicians honest and hard-working, making everyone nice on social media, and Virginia getting a professional sports franchise (any sport will do).  Eh.