The middle of February seems like a good time for a goals and yearly review.
These were the goals I put down before ten months of quarantine happened, so this will be interesting.
- Blog (25%)
- 16 out of 50 - there wasn't much to write about...
- Car (100%)
- The old Mitsubishi Lancer engine died before I got to offload it
- Fitness
- Bike (0%)
- For much of the year we had a 5 km and 1-2 hour outdoors limit, so not ideal to start bike riding
- Run (25%)
- A good year in running given the circumstances
- I have a daily running streak still going from March 3 to February 14
- 5 km - around 18:00, not sure I can claim sub 18 minutes though
- 10 km - around 37:30 in a race, best time with an accurate course distance
- 21 km - no races
- 4300+ km - well ahead of 3000 km
- 5 of 10 new parkrun events - got halfway there before March
- 1 of 5 new race events
- 0 of 2 new interstate events
- 0 of 1 new international events
- Weight (20%)
- 74 kg all year instead of 75 kg, not getting much closer to 70 kg
- Food (0%)
- Haven't really made any changes
- Too many lockdown donuts - actual donuts
- Holiday (5%)
- This will be on hold for a while now
- 0 of 1 interstate holiday
- 0 of 1 international holiday
- Managed to reach South Australia just before the end of the year
- House (1%)
- You'd think this year's business and job impacts would slow down house prices, but no
- I have some preferred locations, not much of an achievement
- Should be able to manage a deposit and home loan with the current ultra-low interest rates
- Money (100%)
- Shares
- A rollercoaster ride
- Lost 40% in 4 weeks
- Back where it started in another 12 weeks
- Somehow finished with a 50% gain
- Investment loan would be negative overall, was forced to sell some
- Super
- Up about 10% including new contributions, a bit less than the previous year
- Hard to really make sense of that given the extra amount invested
- Music (20%)
- 1 of 5 events
- February - The New Pornographers
- Reading (0%)
- None
- Sport (0%)
- AFL - none in Victoria
- NBL - Sydney made the NBL finals
- But coincided with restrictions so it wasn't an option to attend a match in Sydney
- Study (0%)
- 0 of 1 exam certification
- To Do List (0%)
- Nothing of major significance besides this list
- Video Games (40%)
- Nintendo Switch
- Setup and finished some games
- New Super Mario U Deluxe
- New Super Mario U Deluxe - Luigi U
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Zelda - Breath Of The Wild
- Zelda - Link's Awakening
- Xbox One
- Finished some games very slowly
- Fallout 4
- Forza Horizon 3
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Work (75%)
- Got a promotion finally
- Spent the whole year on one project, but generally enjoyable
- Not being expected to travel to work 5 days a week was a good side effect
- Currently undecided about long term goals, with the same company or elsewhere
A few favourites from the year:
- Movies
- Knives Out - the only movie I got to watch at a cinema
- TV
- All Or Nothing - both Philadelphia Eagles and Tottenham
- Better Call Saul
- Fear The Walking Dead
- Rosehaven
- Ted Lasso
- The Last Dance - great NBA footage
- The Last Man On Earth - sometimes great, sometimes not
- Utopia
That's it for last year...