Annual recap: 2023

Last year: https://abacusnoir.com/2023/01/01/annual-recap-2022/

Year before last: https://abacusnoir.com/2021/12/30/annual-recap-2021/

Longer trips

  • Switzerland
  • Banff
  • Maui
  • Disney + Universal in Orlando

Smaller trips

  • Yosemite
  • Santa Cruz
  • Carmel

Hiking

  • Agnes lake
  • Consolation lake
  • Pfeiffer falls
  • Yosemite falls
  • Mori point
  • Coyote point

Family/Tara

  • Monthly trips to Michaels
  • Watched a performance of "Mathilda"
  • Tara participated in a show for "Elf: the musical"
  • Lot of Minecraft (set up "Realms")
  • Playing Mancala at home
  • Playing a bit of Pickleball
  • Went for Tara's friend's communion
  • Field trip to a pumpkin patch

Home

  • Got AT&T Fiber
  • Made fondue at home
  • Halloween

Me

  • Great year at Luminary Cloud
  • Enjoying my Caltrain commute
  • Kindle/Kobo: restarted e-reading experiment
  • Finished a 1000-piece puzzle
  • Made a R2D2 Lego set
  • More dental extractions
  • Got COVID (twice)
  • Basic strength training setup

Watched

  • Too many, will write later (TODO)

Read/Listened

  • The Cave and the Light
  • Coddling of the American mind
  • Irreversible Damage
  • In search of the miraculous
  • Ball Lightning
  • Death's End (completing Three-body problem trilogy)
  • The Creative Act
  • Reading with Tara: Mysterious Benedict Society, Rebekah Girl Detective, Classic Myths, Christmas Carol, Grimms Fairy Tales, multiple Wings of Fire

Resolutions

  • Improve Sleep (have failed in many different ways here ...)
  • Cut out a big wheat/gluten source in food (roti/parantha/kulcha/naan etc)
  • Bring back my meditation habit I lost last year
  • Better monthly rhythm with goals