Annual recap – 2021

Family

• Tara turned seven
  • had a birthday party at Safari Run
• Halloween trick-or-treating with one of Tara’s friends and her family
• End-of-the-year hike at Stanford Dish
• Got a Foosball (and a kid-size pool table) in the garage
• Bunch of social meetups
• Various appliance repairs
• Discovered Kakaroto downtown (and then ate a lot there!)
• Tara’s graduation (from Kindergarten to 1st grade, lol)
  • But a few friends’ families moved out of the area, which was sad
• Trips:
  • Muir Woods
  • Monterey
  • Trip to Mendocino
  • Trip to Gualala
  • Trip to Carmel
  • Trip to Aptos
    • Unplanned, but fun
  • Trip to Hawaii (Maui)
    • Lotsa pool time
    • Went to Haleakala summit
• Got our vaccines (and boosters)
• A new sofa, heh
• Redid the patio/backyard
• Hike at Long Ridge Trail

Me

• Started off the new year with Sigma Computing
• Switched to Fastmail
• In-person office experience (and, meeting up with team-mates before that)
• Various dental things (a big sinus-lift-cum-extraction-in-preparation-for-an-implant, and some misadventures with the crown on an existing implant)
• Finished two puzzles (though, simple ones)

Tara

• Bunch of new playdates
• Front teeth came out
• Bunch of birthdays
• Monterey bay aquarium!
• Hatched a butterfly from a cocoon!
• Trapped some ants (as “pets”, lol)
• First full day at school (April)
• First trip to the library in over a year
• “Lego camp”
• A big doctor visit

Reading/listening/watching

• A few My Little Pony graphic novels
• Watched on Netflix:
  • Money Heist
  • Captain Underpants
  • Wallace and Gromit
  • Godzilla: Singular Point (!)
  • Squid Games
  • How to train your dragon: hidden world
  • On the verge
  • Blooey
  • Raya and the last dragon
  • Disney: Cars
  • David Attenborough’s ‘A life on earth’
  • Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
  • The Dig
• – Watched in the theater
  – Dune (!)
  – Boss Baby 2
  – Sing 2
  – Encanto
• Read the first two Narnia books
• Read, listened to (!) and watched, the first three Harry Potter books/movies
• Listened to The Idea of the World and The age of Entitlement
• Read The Hobbit (in entirety, and watched the movies)
• Graphic novels:
  • Templar
  • The Graveyard Book (part 1)

Making/exploring/playing

• “Poop Bingo“, a birthday gift 😐
• (assisted with) Friendship bracelets
• Toy robot assembly (“Zivko”)
• Lego: Harry Potter advent set and Harry Potter “train station” set
• Growing crystals
• Making a “fairy garden”
• Clay modelling
• A paper robot from Instructables

Review from last year

• Last year’s review here
• I did do a puzzle
• Failed at a sleep routine (realize now that I was mostly sleep-deprived through the year)

Tentative resolutions

• Intentional reading/writing/doing
• Better sleep routines
• Complete one more puzzle
• Find a way to improve on the exercise front
• Find a way to write/share more
• Contribute/help out more at work