can you believe this is the fifth annual thread for this?
Happy new years everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and, more broadly, a wonderful and productive year. The time has come yet again to reflect on the year that was and look forward to the year to come with a fresh optimism for another chance. Old things have become new and the sky is the limit, so POAST!!! about your successes and failures this year. What did you manage to accomplish this year that you were hoping? What didn't end up working out, for better or worse? And, most importantly of all, what do you want to see in 2023?
This year was a bit of a challenge for me due to a few major issues popping up out of nowhere, but overall I'm content with what we've managed to accomplish despite that, and consulting my list from last year it seems like I hit most of my goals. We finished the roof on Gabe's house which was a big relief, though I didn't get around to digging the well and setting up the pump due to issues coming up late in the year when I had planned to do so. We tilled up two big fields and started working the soil, and so far it's gone very well! We discovered this year that potatoes do very well here, which is excellent news because of how nutritious and calorie dense they are, as well as being generally avoided by the wildlife. We began developing an effective rotation and composting plan though we need to evaluate the effectiveness of it over several years.
After going forward with building a barn we've effectively eliminated our bird predation issues so far, a welcome change as we are now getting eggs going into winter after a sparse year for eggs. Last February due to a miserable cold snap and inadequate provisions we lost half of our goats to the weather, which was the primary impetus for deciding to build the barn in the first place. After seeing the fragility of goats in extreme weather we decided to focus more on raising sheep for meat and wool while phasing the goats out in favor of keeping a milk cow; however, after counting the cost and running into issues with our calf heading into winter we now need to decide a path forward with getting reliable milk from our goat flock. Due to all of these factors we ultimately did not end up going to market with any products this year as we had no excess to sell and only refilled our own reserves.
My goals for 2023 are:
• Continue tilling up more land on the north side of the property
• Grow at least 500# of potatoes and squash
• Dig jet pump well and plumb Gabe's house
• Paint and detail the barn, repair the oldest sections of our fencing near it
• Build a separate coop lean-to on barn for the birds
• Trial run of geese
• Implement breeding strategy for milk goats
• Sell any product at farmer's market at least once
• Build myself a proper cabin. I'll be discussing this in the homesteading thread as I work out the details and costing
I didn't take many pictures this year due to time and my phone being a piece of shit but I do have a picture of our hay shed before the barn as a sort of before and after.
last year's thread for reference
poast em up folks do NOT BE SHY OR ELSE
Happy new years everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and, more broadly, a wonderful and productive year. The time has come yet again to reflect on the year that was and look forward to the year to come with a fresh optimism for another chance. Old things have become new and the sky is the limit, so POAST!!! about your successes and failures this year. What did you manage to accomplish this year that you were hoping? What didn't end up working out, for better or worse? And, most importantly of all, what do you want to see in 2023?
This year was a bit of a challenge for me due to a few major issues popping up out of nowhere, but overall I'm content with what we've managed to accomplish despite that, and consulting my list from last year it seems like I hit most of my goals. We finished the roof on Gabe's house which was a big relief, though I didn't get around to digging the well and setting up the pump due to issues coming up late in the year when I had planned to do so. We tilled up two big fields and started working the soil, and so far it's gone very well! We discovered this year that potatoes do very well here, which is excellent news because of how nutritious and calorie dense they are, as well as being generally avoided by the wildlife. We began developing an effective rotation and composting plan though we need to evaluate the effectiveness of it over several years.
After going forward with building a barn we've effectively eliminated our bird predation issues so far, a welcome change as we are now getting eggs going into winter after a sparse year for eggs. Last February due to a miserable cold snap and inadequate provisions we lost half of our goats to the weather, which was the primary impetus for deciding to build the barn in the first place. After seeing the fragility of goats in extreme weather we decided to focus more on raising sheep for meat and wool while phasing the goats out in favor of keeping a milk cow; however, after counting the cost and running into issues with our calf heading into winter we now need to decide a path forward with getting reliable milk from our goat flock. Due to all of these factors we ultimately did not end up going to market with any products this year as we had no excess to sell and only refilled our own reserves.
My goals for 2023 are:
• Continue tilling up more land on the north side of the property
• Grow at least 500# of potatoes and squash
• Dig jet pump well and plumb Gabe's house
• Paint and detail the barn, repair the oldest sections of our fencing near it
• Build a separate coop lean-to on barn for the birds
• Trial run of geese
• Implement breeding strategy for milk goats
• Sell any product at farmer's market at least once
• Build myself a proper cabin. I'll be discussing this in the homesteading thread as I work out the details and costing
I didn't take many pictures this year due to time and my phone being a piece of shit but I do have a picture of our hay shed before the barn as a sort of before and after.
last year's thread for reference
poast em up folks do NOT BE SHY OR ELSE
Stealing my thunder by linking last year's thread right away....... looking forward to the cabin stuff, construction projects like that are fun to follow.
Anyway, referring back to last year's post;
I didn't end up touching Index much so said big changes will probably occur in the progression of 2013, but I did do a lot on the chat client side of things. Mami (modern client) is still pretty Interweaved Within Itself but I've gotten a lot done with Ami (fallback client), which is also important since I do want to backport certain new things in other to keep things in sync. Might write more about that some other time.
Unfortunately I did fuck up my first year of japstudies again but Attempt #2 seems to be going well, still awaiting my grades at the moment but I have good feeling probably. I did pass the informational courses (sociology, history etc) of which the passing grades carried over so I only had to take the language classes so I will have to go through the textbooks for those again to be prepared for the semester 2 classes lol. Pretty excited to have those going again as well.
Did lose a large amount of fat but still fat. A process is in the works, however.
So I'm once again carrying them forward and I'm still satisfied with 1920x1200, it's still a nice resolution.
Anyway, referring back to last year's post;
I didn't end up touching Index much so said big changes will probably occur in the progression of 2013, but I did do a lot on the chat client side of things. Mami (modern client) is still pretty Interweaved Within Itself but I've gotten a lot done with Ami (fallback client), which is also important since I do want to backport certain new things in other to keep things in sync. Might write more about that some other time.
Unfortunately I did fuck up my first year of japstudies again but Attempt #2 seems to be going well, still awaiting my grades at the moment but I have good feeling probably. I did pass the informational courses (sociology, history etc) of which the passing grades carried over so I only had to take the language classes so I will have to go through the textbooks for those again to be prepared for the semester 2 classes lol. Pretty excited to have those going again as well.
Did lose a large amount of fat but still fat. A process is in the works, however.
So I'm once again carrying them forward and I'm still satisfied with 1920x1200, it's still a nice resolution.
Regarding last years resolutions, in terms of fitness it has not been the best year. Been hitting a plateau, while i do not like excuses, i do think it has been because my health has not been great this year. Corona two times which got me very very sick for quite some time, preventing me from pretty much doing anything. Combined with losing a lot of weight due to being sick, i have lowered my expectations for what i wanted to achieve. I am fit, however i did not hit the numbers i would have liked.
Academically, i did not get the latin honors, as i scored 0.1 too low on my average for that. Dont really care about it, but it would have been cool. I have been reading and consuming more Japanese media, mostly manga and visual novels, but i also started reading an actual book, 草原の椅子 by 宮本 輝 (its level is way higher than manga or visual novels).
Now for 2023, i wont put any goals for lifts in terms of numbers, because i never reached them anyway. I will, however, want to stay above 70kg/155lbs (I have lost around 10kg/22lbs, half of it due to being sick) in 2022 and be leaner than i have ever been. I wonder if body building is something that is fun and i will give it a good try.
End of march i should hopefully be going to Kanazawa to study abroad for some time. Here i hope to make a nice group of friends, as well connections for possibly the future. Of course this will improve my Japanese, but it will also push me to become more independent by being dropped in a foreign country where i cant get help from my parents.
Kanazawa being the second biggest oldest city that has not been bombed during WWII, I plan to walk around a lot here and take tons of pictures to blog here on flashii and hopefully on a seperate website.
These are not really resolutions, but they are all goals/plans that i have for 2023
also if possible i would like to start either boxing or karate
Academically, i did not get the latin honors, as i scored 0.1 too low on my average for that. Dont really care about it, but it would have been cool. I have been reading and consuming more Japanese media, mostly manga and visual novels, but i also started reading an actual book, 草原の椅子 by 宮本 輝 (its level is way higher than manga or visual novels).
Now for 2023, i wont put any goals for lifts in terms of numbers, because i never reached them anyway. I will, however, want to stay above 70kg/155lbs (I have lost around 10kg/22lbs, half of it due to being sick) in 2022 and be leaner than i have ever been. I wonder if body building is something that is fun and i will give it a good try.
End of march i should hopefully be going to Kanazawa to study abroad for some time. Here i hope to make a nice group of friends, as well connections for possibly the future. Of course this will improve my Japanese, but it will also push me to become more independent by being dropped in a foreign country where i cant get help from my parents.
Kanazawa being the second biggest oldest city that has not been bombed during WWII, I plan to walk around a lot here and take tons of pictures to blog here on flashii and hopefully on a seperate website.
These are not really resolutions, but they are all goals/plans that i have for 2023
also if possible i would like to start either boxing or karate
hosimati suisei please
I'll try to keep mine short and sweet, my biggest one last year was to lose a decent amount of weight and I definitely have done that, albeit not in the healthiest way as I've been struggling a lot with various gastro issues. Turns out my stomach takes longer than normal to digest food so I have to keep that in mind going forward in the new year with smaller but more frequent meals. So I'd like to go back to weight loss of course, this time a bit more consistent and healthier. I'm definitively making much better food choices these days and will try completely cutting out soda/energy drinks again. I'd also like to cut back or full stop quit my nicotine usage, I'm realizing how much money I'm wasting that could be going towards fun projects I have in mind so I guess less usage of vices in general.
Fun stuff wise, I'd like to improve more in my plastic guitar abilities; I was only able to play up to Hard charts as of last year but these days I'm playing on Expert for almost all of my sessions and it even feels more natural to play than the Hard ones I was used to so that's neat. Still haven't FC'd a chart, so that's a big goal. I'd also like to start drawing more, I bought a Intuos last year and have barely taken it out of the box so if anyone has good resources in regards to that, I'd love to take a look.
So yeah, tl;dr: be less fat, no more Juul, get gud at Clone Hero and do some doodling.
Fun stuff wise, I'd like to improve more in my plastic guitar abilities; I was only able to play up to Hard charts as of last year but these days I'm playing on Expert for almost all of my sessions and it even feels more natural to play than the Hard ones I was used to so that's neat. Still haven't FC'd a chart, so that's a big goal. I'd also like to start drawing more, I bought a Intuos last year and have barely taken it out of the box so if anyone has good resources in regards to that, I'd love to take a look.
So yeah, tl;dr: be less fat, no more Juul, get gud at Clone Hero and do some doodling.
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Last year absolutely kicked my ass and I wasn't able to get as far as I wanted to with my resolutions, so most of my resolutions this year are quite similar with a few bonuses tacked on
*Curbing my drinking, pmuch quitting at home drinking outright and saving it for occasions exclusively
*Getting my exercise regimen more steady and sticking to it
*Actually have the nerve to girlmode more often
*Gain the ability to tell family members to pound sand when they try to drag me into their stupid bullshit
*Heal from the emotional damage most of the events of my 2022 have done to me
*3840x2160 (i have the display for it, i just need an HDMI 2.0+ GPU)
I'm having to try a little harder than normal to be optimistic for the new year, but I'm sure I'll get into the groove of it relatively quickly
*Curbing my drinking, pmuch quitting at home drinking outright and saving it for occasions exclusively
*Getting my exercise regimen more steady and sticking to it
*Actually have the nerve to girlmode more often
*Gain the ability to tell family members to pound sand when they try to drag me into their stupid bullshit
*Heal from the emotional damage most of the events of my 2022 have done to me
*3840x2160 (i have the display for it, i just need an HDMI 2.0+ GPU)
I'm having to try a little harder than normal to be optimistic for the new year, but I'm sure I'll get into the groove of it relatively quickly
Dying of boredom, I'll try it all...
i will be undergoing chemotherapy for the first half of 2023 so goals for the year are to continue working deep cleaning during recovery cycles for exercise and rent (making sure to eat more and not lose too much weight while that happens), and most excitingly i would love to have a gallery of animations, illustrations, paintings and studies i can use to make a portfolio of graphic work to get more frequent commissions and employment in the future
i have been stress-stricken to debilitating degrees over the last 2 years so i would like this year to be my chance to take a break from everything and just enjoy life without hassle (not that i don't already of course) while making investments and considerations for the long-term
i have been stress-stricken to debilitating degrees over the last 2 years so i would like this year to be my chance to take a break from everything and just enjoy life without hassle (not that i don't already of course) while making investments and considerations for the long-term
It seems last years resolutions were a bit too optimistic, but several things did occur that were good in my opinion. I was fully hired in March 2022 and what seemed to be like an annoying work environment turned into a very welcoming place with a lot of friends I have made. I am still considering the appropriate time to leave if it will be necessary any time soon. I have unfortunately not touched programming the entire year (haha), but I'm thinking of picking up a few books to read. i guess the highlight of the year was seeing some progression in my drawings, it no longer takes forever to put together some line art and everything seems to fall together pretty nicely when i first sit down. It is still a chore to even think about drawing an entire figure but the attempts I have made are not too bad. When it comes to my mental issues, they have started clearing a bit, but the issue still lingers and I tend to distance myself from people a lot ( i honestly think this was side effect of 2020).
The goals would be to:
- actually get serious about endeavors i start
- be more involved with others
- become a piano god
- also a better trader ( something i've been dabbling in)
- Also get into immensely better shape
The goals would be to:
- actually get serious about endeavors i start
- be more involved with others
- become a piano god
- also a better trader ( something i've been dabbling in)
- Also get into immensely better shape
From last year: "I want to keep up the positive momentum in my life especially now that my path has been properly set in stone and I'm no longer trying to juggle many things, I want to continue past my burnout, and yeah, I want to get to slowly but surely untangling myself. We'll see. I'd already be happy keeping up my situation as-is, to be realistic. But... I'd like to be happy. Truly happy, whatever that means."
....honestly, I suppose I'm still here, so that counts... but, I feel like I've gone backwards in some ways this year and forwards in others... Getting into art and into the waifuism community has been good for me and is something I want to continue, and I've grown as a businessman I suppose....but getting fucked in many ways messed me up pretty badly, and idk.... I just haven't been very ... active this year. Only a few updates, idk... Only through going thru all my screenshots did I even remember what I did...
idk. I would say "my resolutions are to regain growth, invest more into those new things i find passion through and get more into UI design now that I am offloading other work to others, and get a grasp on sleep schedule and the physical" but i feel like i'm kidding myself there
i don't think it really makes sense to think about. i just hope the year is kind to me and giving out some work allows me to get more control over myself. we'll see
nonetheless i wanna draw & design more ig idk
....honestly, I suppose I'm still here, so that counts... but, I feel like I've gone backwards in some ways this year and forwards in others... Getting into art and into the waifuism community has been good for me and is something I want to continue, and I've grown as a businessman I suppose....but getting fucked in many ways messed me up pretty badly, and idk.... I just haven't been very ... active this year. Only a few updates, idk... Only through going thru all my screenshots did I even remember what I did...
idk. I would say "my resolutions are to regain growth, invest more into those new things i find passion through and get more into UI design now that I am offloading other work to others, and get a grasp on sleep schedule and the physical" but i feel like i'm kidding myself there
i don't think it really makes sense to think about. i just hope the year is kind to me and giving out some work allows me to get more control over myself. we'll see
nonetheless i wanna draw & design more ig idk
you ought to be more honest with yourself osk, lukewarm expectations can only lead to lukewarm outcomes. give it some serious thought and be more concrete with your expectations if you truly want any good to come
i know funtime is reading this and if you do not post in this thread i will torment you endlessly till the next year. you have been warned
i know funtime is reading this and if you do not post in this thread i will torment you endlessly till the next year. you have been warned