2019 Review

A bit overdue for the yearly, although it's not much more than a summary of each monthly.

These were some of the traceable 2019 goals I put down, before I come up with similar ones for 2020...

• Blog (50%)
• 26 out of 50
• Had no holidays so just consists of monthly reports and a bit of running
• Car (100%)
• Finally decided to go with a Mitsubishi Lancer 2017
• Good enough for the amount of driving I do, and more comfortable than the old one
• Fitness
• Bike (0%)
• None
• Run (75%)
• I've put more details in the 2019 running review
• 5km was right on my target time of 18:00
• 10km was also close to my target time of 37:30
• 21km improved PB by 30 seconds, hoped to get a little closer to 1 hour 20 minutes
• Only did one half marathon instead of two
• Total distance just missed due to injuries to finish the year
• 13 of 10 new parkrun events
• 0 of 1 international events
• 0 of 2 interstate events due to last minute Gold Coast injuries
• Weight (10%)
• Still stuck around 75 kg instead of 70 kg
• Food (0%)
• Haven't changed much to help with fitness and weight
• Holiday (25%)
• 0 of 1 international holidays
• 2 small interstate holidays
• Brisbane 3 days and Gold Coast 2 days barely counts
• House (0%)
• None
• Money (100%)
• Shares
• Hard to calculate exactly due to extra investments
• Close enough to 50% recovery from late 2019, optimistic aim was 25%
• Investment loan also recovered to about 10% profit
• Super
• Hard to calculate also due to contributions
• Possibly up 20% which was the goal, a third of that is probably new contributions
• Extra 3% contributions
• Music (20%)
• 1 of 5 events
• September - Apocalyptica at Hamer Hall
• Reading (0%)
• None
• Sport (75%)
• No goals really
• March - NBL finals
• August - Australia vs USA basketball
• September - AFL grand final
• Study (0%)
• 0 of 2 exams
• To Do List (50%)
• Just wanted to get all of the larger 2018 and 2019 tasks done
• Most of these have been listed already
• Yes
• New car
• New Garmin watch
• Super contribution
• No
• Holidays
• House
• Video Games (50%)
• Opened Xbox One at last
• Haven't opened Nintendo Switch yet, can only do one at a time anyway
• Did not quite finish five games:
• Xbox 360
• GRID 2
• Final Fantasy XIII - Lightning Returns
• Xbox One
• Forza Horizon 4
• Forza Horizon 3 almost
• Work (25%)
• Had a good variety of projects is a small success
• No promotion this year and project positions haven't been ideal

And similar to the monthly reports I'll end with a few favourites for the year:

• Movies
• Parasite
• Us
• TV
• Atlanta
• Rosehaven
• The Amazing Race
• The Challenge
• Video Games
• None were a standout - too much achievement grinding

December Review

This is the December review, the entire year review will be some time later.

A second bad month of running with a persistent hamstring injury, I managed to get through the month, but without any training sessions, and it has been quite uncomfortable most of the time. I wasn't ready for the Cherry Lake race either, so this was the only month this year without a race.

I struggled through a few Birdsland parkruns with times around 18:30 or slower. I had planned a bit more parkrun travelling over the break, but due to injuries and also the weather conditions from bush fires I only ended up going to You Yangs on Christmas day, it was an early start but a fun course with a couple of hills.

No biking.

I've had some shares sold for once, but only due to some companies being acquired. The takeovers worked out quite well with a 25% and 100% profit for the two, which helped end the year a bit better. I put the money into some new companies and also added a bit to my investment loan.

Nothing much new in sports, I only watched the Vic Bowl gridiron on a stream as the same team has been winning easily the last three years. I also watched the Steigen 1 athletics competition on a stream which was a really good and different format for short distance running with teams.

The to do list didn't get much attention despite the time off work:

• Blog photos
• I'm slowly migrating my photos off an old hosting service, nearly 50% done
• New Year planning
• As noted above, I was originally planning a short trip to Canberra but cancelled
• The decision was good as the parkruns were cancelled too
• Windows 10 upgrade
• Decided to wait for the moment, not so important after getting a new work laptop

Had a bit of a slow finish to the year at work, hopefully gets going again in the new year with some meaningful activities.

That's it for this month and year.

• Books
• None
• Movies
• Parasite
• Great Korean movie, something a bit different
• 9 out of 10
• Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise Of Skywalker
• Just so similar to every other story
• 5 out of 10
• Music
• None
• TV
• Ballers season 5
• Such bad stories and useless characters always have success
• 2 out of 10
• Black Mirror 5.03
• Better than the previous two, a bit more technology focused
• 7 out of 10
• Brockmire season 1
• Annoying voice and character ruined the concept, couldn't watch season 2
• 3 out of 10
• Silicon Valley season 6
• The seasons were too short, but stories still seemed a bit recycled
• 6 out of 10
• Survivor season 39
• Such incredibly bad handling of a contestant claims of sexual harassment
• 5 out of 10
• Video Games
• Xbox One
• Forza Horizon 3
• Just missing some of the good improvements in Horizon 4
• Forza Horizon 4
• Finally finished all the single player achievements