New Year's 2022
(Backdated for consistency)
Going over the resolutions:
Write more: Sold another story to Chris Kennedy for "In the Wings", but I didn't get too far on my own projects. I made some more entries on my Wordpress blog, including a Euloge for my dad and a recent one about how even the dictionary is being corrupted for political purposes, and I noticed I failed to link them here on LJ.
Get my comic collection under control: Negative progress. I moved some stacks into the bedroom to make a point of reading them, and finished one title. Got a few issues through a couple more.
Shoot more: Didn't go shooting at all. One new gun, which is still a virgin.
My BP was doing okay until I got Covid at the end of August, and was forced to get a Vax in October (at which point they punted the deadline a couple of times and now it's in the air.). Now I almost never see a reading below 140, and have even hit 175 a couple of times (I immediately took extra meds). Should have a cardiologist appointment soon. Weight hasn't been very good either. I've been stuck in the low 240's for months, which is higher than last year. I was 241.4 on the morning of the 1st.
Financially: I killed my mortgage in September. A small settlement from a life insurance policy nobody knew my father had (~$11,000) put me over the top early. Single largest transaction in my life, just shy of 6 figures. I have no major debts now, so my savings are recovering faster than they did from the car. Between the house, the car, and the exterior work in 2016, it blows my mind how much money has gone out. But I'm still okay. Of course, with no debt, my credit rating has finally started moving off of 850.
Clean up the whole damned house: yeah, no major changes there. A smaller goal is to get the comics off the orange desk in the den and into boxes in the other storage room, and moves the 3D printers there to get them off the dining room table.
As for printing: I haven't done anything on the Marble pump, but I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of FreeCad, and have designed a number of my own prints, including a magnetic water bottle holder for my locker at work and a bracket that holds the heater in my car so I don't have to keep moving it off of my armrest. So the goal is to keep learning, and eventually take another crack at the marble pump, since my initial stab at it is now kinda sad.
Going over the resolutions:
Write more: Sold another story to Chris Kennedy for "In the Wings", but I didn't get too far on my own projects. I made some more entries on my Wordpress blog, including a Euloge for my dad and a recent one about how even the dictionary is being corrupted for political purposes, and I noticed I failed to link them here on LJ.
Get my comic collection under control: Negative progress. I moved some stacks into the bedroom to make a point of reading them, and finished one title. Got a few issues through a couple more.
Shoot more: Didn't go shooting at all. One new gun, which is still a virgin.
My BP was doing okay until I got Covid at the end of August, and was forced to get a Vax in October (at which point they punted the deadline a couple of times and now it's in the air.). Now I almost never see a reading below 140, and have even hit 175 a couple of times (I immediately took extra meds). Should have a cardiologist appointment soon. Weight hasn't been very good either. I've been stuck in the low 240's for months, which is higher than last year. I was 241.4 on the morning of the 1st.
Financially: I killed my mortgage in September. A small settlement from a life insurance policy nobody knew my father had (~$11,000) put me over the top early. Single largest transaction in my life, just shy of 6 figures. I have no major debts now, so my savings are recovering faster than they did from the car. Between the house, the car, and the exterior work in 2016, it blows my mind how much money has gone out. But I'm still okay. Of course, with no debt, my credit rating has finally started moving off of 850.
Clean up the whole damned house: yeah, no major changes there. A smaller goal is to get the comics off the orange desk in the den and into boxes in the other storage room, and moves the 3D printers there to get them off the dining room table.
As for printing: I haven't done anything on the Marble pump, but I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of FreeCad, and have designed a number of my own prints, including a magnetic water bottle holder for my locker at work and a bracket that holds the heater in my car so I don't have to keep moving it off of my armrest. So the goal is to keep learning, and eventually take another crack at the marble pump, since my initial stab at it is now kinda sad.