2020 Review

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...