New Year's Stuff

01/01/15

So, it's a new year, eh?

That means resolutions and stuff, right? I don't remember doing resolutions very often. I mean, I usually decide to do something sometime during the year and just try to start then.

Thinking about it, I only recall one resolution I have done: taking the stairs over the elevator. This was two years ago, I believe. I had noticed during Feburary that I hadn't taken an elevator yet, and decided to make that my post-hoc resolution. I believe I ended up taking an elevator quite a few times, but I'm not one to believe in all or nothing resolutions. I probably took the stairs over 90% of the time where I had a choice.

That's a clean A right there.

So, anyways, on this New Year's day, I will list some goals I have built up over the last year, and maybe by the end of this year, I can grade myself on how well I approached those goals.

Okay, lessee 'ere:

• Daily
  • Blog post
  • Drawing
  • Japanese studying (pick one)
    • Kanji
    • Vocabulary
    • Syntax
    • Lang-8 blog post
  • Exercise
  • Dog Walking
  • Personal AgileGame Session
• Weekly
  • Weekly Review
  • Single Feature Project
• Monthly
  • Book reading
  • ACM magazine reading
  • IEEE Spectrum reading
  • Book review
  • In-depth article grok
  • Multi-feature project
  • Monthly Review
  • Article post (post for broader audience)
• Yearly
  • One polished game
  • One polished web app
  • One serious drawing
  • Yearly Review
• Specific Stuff
  • AgileGame iterate until it is an idle and/or unfolding game
    • Start with polished timer app
  • Vim unfolding game
  • Website backend transfer from nginx to node

Lots of stuff I want to do, but a year is a long time, and those daily, weekly, and monthly things are stuff I can practice at.