It’s been almost a year since I wrote anything…  …Here.  But, it’s time to talk resolutions again, and I wanted to make sure I got them down again this year.  For me, 2024 was a lot, far more than I bargained for, but it was good, even if it was busy.  I won’t belabor that point, because this post is about 2025, and, like every year, I have goals.  Every year, when I do this, I usually think these things are reasonable, and sometimes more achievable than other years (I knew my 2024 assembly backlog would be a stretch even when I wrote it down), sometimes, even to the extent that I don’t try as hard as I probably should have.  This year though, I’m going to still write them down, still track them, and I’ll see how it goes.

That said, here we go.

Continue reading Looking Forward in 2025 →

With another year behind me, I’m still looking forward, and 2024 has a lot of new things in store.  This year I’m doing a couple of different things to capture different elements of what I’m trying to do.  As usual, I’m going to have my typical list of goals, and they’re going to follow the usual SMART criteria, with a focus on specific and measurable.  In the past, these have been my typical resolutions, with rather few elements of, “I’ll know it when it see it” or “at least one is enough”, but this year, you’ll see this be more clear.  Conversely, I will also have some things that don’t meet the SMART criteria – they aren’t specific nor measurable; for these, you won’t see a progress bar, or me necessarily mince words on what it even means explicitly.  I’m calling these items “themes” as they aren’t really an achievable goal, so much as ideas that I want to keep in mind and guide some of my activities.  We’ll see how that works out and maybe it’ll be something I do again more often.

With that out of the way, let’s get to what my 2024 goals are.
Continue reading Looking Forward in 2024 →

It’s time to start looking ahead again.  With the new year, I’ve got some new resolutions (as well as some old ones making an appearance).  Sometimes I wonder why I still do this, but, at the end of the day, I do it because it’s useful to me – not as a way to give me goals, nor to motivate me to better myself, but to track what I’ve been up to.  Looking forward to the new year, and looking back to the past year, helps me remember what it is I’ve done, what I’ve sidelined, and what I thought I might do a year ago.

So, it’s with that that, once again, I set some goals, and here they are:

Continue reading Looking Forward in 2023 →

It already seems odd to be looking back, after I’ve already looked forward and set my goals for 2021, but, it’s time to close out 2021 with a look at how I did on my resolutions for last year.  As usual, I’ll go through my resolutions one-by-one and see whether I completed them.

Here it goes: Continue reading 2021 in Resolutions →

This year, my New Year’s posts are going to be a bit out of order, as I haven’t really been spending a lot of time writing.  In fact, I just started taking the bus again last week, so we’ll see how that goes.  Still, I did make New Year’s Resolutions this year, so I feel like I ought to go over them so I know whether I succeeded or not with them at the end of the year.

That being said, here we go: Continue reading Looking Forward in 2022 →