It’s New Year’s Resolutions time, so it’s time for me to put together my new list for 2019.  Some of these will be familiar by now, but I also have some new ones that I hope will make the new year be a little different than the last.

Assembly Backlog

As usual, I plan on tackling my assembly backlog from last year – this list contains all the models I bought last year, with a few wrinkles:

• I don’t think I’ll assemble my warlord titan this year, so I’m not making that one required.  I want that to be something I can spend some time on, so I’m not sure that it’ll ever necessarily make this list (though I will get it together at some point).
• There are four Warmachine models (the Man-O-War Strike Tanker, Man-O-War Siege Chariot, Alexia Handmaiden of Death, and Ice Queen Lanyssa) that I bought last year, but haven’t gotten yet.  These are on the list assuming I get them – I’ll cross them off if I don’t.
• I’ll be running a Warmahordes league this summer which will have custom models – I’ll add that to my resolution when I nail down exactly what those will be because I want to have those models done this year too (they’ll probably end up being some kind of kit-bash).

I’ll continue to do what I did last year – color code the resolution models in orange, then to green when I complete them while new models will be white and turn to teal if I finish them.  That generally helps me grok my backlog both for this resolution and just the general models I have to do.

Organize my eBook Collection

Over the many humble bundles, story bundles, bundles of holding, and PDF-only kickstarters I’ve picked up over the years, I have a ton of e-books.  Some of them, I have nicely organized on my server, with a nice naming convention and organized so that I can find them.  Others…  …I don’t.  So, this year, I want to make sure I have them all on my server and named and organized appropriately.

This one is going to be a bit tricky to measure progress, as I honestly don’t know how many e-books I have from various sources.  I’ll consider this success if I make it through the sources listed above and I don’t have any dangling links in my e-mail.

Play through a Campaign Game

This one is again going to be familiar in that I want to play some of my campaign games.  The goal here is to get through one campaign of a game (either one I own or one I pick up this year).

Medical Visits

Keeping with the tradition of putting which medical professionals I’m going to see this year, I have on my list to see my doctor and my dentist.  I missed seeing my doctor last year, and I would like to get in the habit of doing this every year, so, let’s start this year!

Fitness Walking

This is my exercise resolution, and in this case, I want to do something of an intensity resolution, since I already walk a fair bit as part of my regular exercise regimen.  In this case, my goal is to take at least 104 walks of at least a mile with an average pace of less than 16:30.

This may seem pretty moderate, and it is, but I’ll be seeing what I can accomplish with this this year and take it from there (probably ratcheting it up over the course of the year).  At the very least, I plan on recording my average pace and will post it so I can see if I’m making any progress.

Financial

I haven’t typically done a financial goal, but I have a few things I want to try to do this year to improve my financial situation.  They’re all related, so I’m bundling them as one resolution, but they are a bit varied:

• Pay off my car.
• Reduce the year-long average of each of my energy bills (power, gas, water) by at least 2%.
  • If I drop one of my energy bills by 5% or more, I’ll give myself a pass on another (i.e. if I reduce my water bill by 5%, but don’t get my gas bill down, I’ll still pass).
• Bring lunch to work an average of twice a week rather than going out to eat every day.  I’m going to set this to “bring 104 lunches” to make tracking easier – we’ll see how that goes.