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