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user-inactivated  ·  3258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The 2015 Monthly Morale Menagerie - 2015 Roundup

Thanks rezzeJ for doing this! I've got my 2016 goals planned out and I'm excited to see your new format.

How'd 2015 go?

    run 40 miles/week. lift and swim once/week. work on flexibility and body strength daily. meditate daily.

Nope. I ran around 40 miles a week during cross country season (I'm a coach), but outside of that, not much at all. My daily flexibility, body strength, and meditation stuff was consistent at certain points and inconsistent at others. It's been good for the last month, and it's part of my 2016 goals as well, albeit focused differently.

    read one book/month

Not quite, but close. I've read about 4 in the last 1.5 months though, and one of my 2016 goals is to keep up that pace. It's easier when I don't have a job :)

    finish desktop computer setup. learn Rust. finish setting up blog and actually do some blogging.

My computer and desk are pretty much set up, but they've now been put away in a closet. I think I can chalk that one up to not knowing at the beginning of the year that I'd be quitting my job to travel. I've learned Rust a bit, and have started contributing to a couple Rust projects, but haven't gotten too far. I've also made some progress on Go and some js frameworks that I didn't anticipate in the beginning of the year. Blog is set up and some blogging has been done!

    record some music

Nope. I recorded about half of one song. My recording set up just wasn't ideal. And now I'm on the road without any instruments. I'm currently working on a custom interface for the audiovisual live coding environment Gibber, and when I get to a good place with that I should be able to start making some new music.

Overall I'd say I did okay, but not great. I'll blame some of it on some big lifestyle changes 2/3 of the way through the year that I didn't plan for.