What I've accomplished in 2014
- escaped crippling depression
- escaped crippling poverty
- took a break from a crippling Masters
- worked well, diligently, productively and regained self-respect and self-confidence
- improved my German greatly (hooray Duolingo)
- worked on photography
- managed to finally upgrade to a Micro Four Thirds (from a camera phone), wrote some handy scripts for my workflow, managed to mostly share an average of 40 photos/week. (Still haven't managed to integrate that stream into this site well :D)
- worked on budo
- learned a long-sword school, Kage Ryu
- improved two-sword Niten Ichi Ryu
- attained the rank of Nidan in ZNKR Iaido
- managed to make it to 1/3 of kendo practises (goal was 1/2, oh well)
- learned the jo side of Ran Ai
- grew my social video gaming :D (Wii U + Mario Kart 8 + Super Smash Bros + Hyrule Warriors), managed to play a fair amount with my best friend who is in another province
- caught up with anime (mostly through a circle of friends and regular night)
- found someone to teach me violin in exchange for cookies :D
- got my father out to Victoria to see his daughters
- went hiking, camping, and canoeing a lot
- improved my independence - no longer feel dependent on others!
- even have a basic understanding of what it is to "love" oneself
- started drawing way more often (work on the teddy bear web comic is underway!)
- made my own kitchen knife (!) in a FORGE and my own pants and top (for iaido) from 'scratch'
- expanded my baking repertoire (birthday cake, zucchini bread)
- started my own company
- negotiated a compressed work week contract :D
- managed to help my dad out a lot (zoom zoom)
- exercised! Goal was daily, managed every-other-daily, still good results, especially in cycling up Gordon St. workdaily
- bike maintenance!
- journaled privately more often (that is, not even online :D, so totally frank and no filters), worked on improving own information organisation
- made some cool, new friends
- made a neat web app (My Daily) but didn't publish it yet :D
- went tobogganing
- organised a booth for Guelph VegFest 2014 and a large vegan potluck on campus :D
- explored a sewer and dumpster dove
- traveled (Victoria/Vancouver, Timmins, Calgary)
- almost no relaxing downtime :|
- too busy a lot of the time, had to drop a contract even!
- managed to read just one book a "semester"
- didn't really do any of the Coursera courses I signed up for
- had two periods of notable stress (which I ended up catching)
- accomplished very little Open Source development
- failed to grow much as far as veganism goes (I need to get more familiar with more facts so I can make better arguments and retire bad ones)
- eating well - ended up spending more eating out just to make sure I had some complete meals, due to busyness
- got 80% of My Daily done, but haven't finished the remaining 20% :D
- work on integrating information
- I want photos to flow through this site
- I want my "microblog" posts to appear where they'll be read (Twitter) and where I live (here, kosmokaryote)
- want a private 'wiki' offline that I can store more facts about my own life
- practise violin weekly
- practise piano weekly
- start learning French
- further improve German
- reserve more time for me
- finish my Masters
- read more
- including about budo and veganism
- cook for myself, cook more healthily
- get out of Guelph
- improve on all the other stuff I've been doing :D
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