2G19 - 1: Resolutions/2G19 Plans

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:55 am

First Hot Topic of 2G19 and I'm afraid it's going to be a predictable one.

Have you made any resolutions? Have you already broken them?
What plans do you have in 2G19? What would you like to do more/less of?

My main plan is to actually obtain, move in to and set up the new house, potentially getting a good streaming setup and DDR machine in the basement (can't sound too grown up).
I didn't manage to visit a new country in 2G18, so I want to try that, even if it's just a weekend break somewhere in Europe (perhaps Twitchcon Europe).
I'm also extending Lent by 2 weeks (before Ash Wednesday) this year, to make up for the 2 weeks of Barry Rule in Japan last year (and also because I weighed myself yesterday and I'm the heaviest I've been since 2G12

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WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:36 pm

SG Montreal 2G19 needs to happen

Mitsurugi CP · Post by **Mitsurugi CP** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:20 am

I might go to Canada once I get my passport. If this pregnancy makes it to term, that might change travel plans, but that will be ok, because I will have a living child.

Weight loss is a perpetual struggle, and since I can't bike anywhere here, that's going to be even harder than when I was in WI.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 7:41 am

Fingers crossed for you on the baby.
Where in Canada do you want to go? Have you been before?

Mitsurugi CP · Post by **Mitsurugi CP** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:17 pm

I've never left the US. Not entirely sure where I'd go yet, haven't really thought about it seriously. Most likely Montreal as part of a roadtrip through Vermont and upstate NY, though.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:12 pm

Like not even once? You’re missing out breh

Mitsurugi CP · Post by **Mitsurugi CP** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:46 pm

Haven't ever had the opportunity.

I'm going to Vietnam at some point in the future, but not this year. I need to accrue vacation time first.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sat Jan 05, 2019 4:42 pm

Accruing vacation is bull

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Sun Jan 06, 2019 4:16 pm

The RDM has no specific plans. Probably lose 15 pounds. He started working out last year and has a bit of momentum, so it might be possible. The RDM wants to pay off a lot of debt this year. It's kind of out control since he dropped so much money on the solar last spring. Probably go to Canada at some point this year, probably publish one to two books, do some work on the camp, all that good stuff.

Wishing you luck on the pregnancy/child front, Mitsurugi.

Cybernetic Empire · Post by **Cybernetic Empire** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:43 pm

New year new me!

*changes nothing*

Well this is bullshit...WORST YEAR EVER!

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:36 pm

My resolution was to not use vacation on work last year. Hopefully it will go better this year because I'm part time.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:30 pm

You have the power to make that happen!

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:40 pm

Damien wrote:You have the power to make that happen!

Je also has the power to not band me for ixtoposting!

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:14 am

What is ixtoposting?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:50 am

Maybe ix is meant to be the Roman numeral for 9?

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Jan 09, 2019 5:36 am

Should be nonaposting, but that's nona my concern.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:42 pm

I should have put buying a new vacuum cleaner down as a New Year's Resolution. Decided to get one now, rather than wait until moving. Been using a partially broken one for years now, and it's paaaainful. Good 2G19 upgrade. Read more about it in LPTPW

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:03 pm

FWIW my 2G19 resolutions are basically a repeat of my 2G18 ones.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:29 am

Which are

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:18 pm

Of record.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:34 pm

smeared ink wrote:Fair enough! Maybe we should have a quarterly check-in anyway.

For me:

- Become comfortable speaking French. This one's a long time coming. I've been at the same not-terrible-but-can't-really-converse level for years.

- Learn at least 6 French songs, able to sing/play from memory, including understanding the lyrics. (I'm starting with "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" by Jacques Dutronc.)

- Develop some musical fluency on guitar. If I hear some sequence of notes, I want to have an intuitive sense of "that's a semitone" or "that's a fifth", etc., and to be able to apply that to the guitar fretboard.

- Read a book every day. Not a whole book--just read, from a book.

And to continue last year's themes, practice mindfulness, take responsibility, and be assertive. These ones are vague; I need to think of how to make them more concrete.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:17 pm

Learn to sing/play Boule De Flipper.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:19 pm

What dat

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:52 am

A French song. Did we play French SingStar when you came over in 2G7?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:20 pm

I think we did Swedish or something silly like that.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:42 pm

Yeah we'd been playing French since 2G5. It was old. Discovered Swedish in 2G6. Now I go to Sweden every year for that kinda' shit music!

Mitsurugi CP · Post by **Mitsurugi CP** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:45 pm

Damien wrote:I should have put buying a new vacuum cleaner down as a New Year's Resolution. Decided to get one now, rather than wait until moving. Been using a partially broken one for years now, and it's paaaainful. Good 2G19 upgrade. Read more about it in LPTPW

We got a Roomba as an Xmas gift and it is very nice. Now I just vacuum the kitchen once a week manually instead of daily.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:21 pm

You vacuumed anything daily?!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:33 pm

I only tend to do it before people come over

Mitsurugi CP · Post by **Mitsurugi CP** » Sat Jan 12, 2019 8:12 am

smeared ink wrote:You vacuumed anything daily?!

Spot cleaning mainly in the kitchen, but yeah. Our dog licks the floor for whatever morsels he can find if I don't stay on top of it, and I hate the sound he makes when he licks anything. It sounds like someone fisting a bowl of Jello.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:38 am

A Roomba would never survive the hellscape that is my apartment.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:11 pm

You should probably do something about that. There’s still time for resolutions!!

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:38 pm

Like putting a Roomba on the floor and seeing what happens?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:05 pm

I mean... sure?

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:17 pm

Probably a waste of a few hundred bucks. The areas it can reach will be pretty clean though, I guess.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:34 pm

Damien wrote: I'm also extending Lent by 2 weeks (before Ash Wednesday) this year, to make up for the 2 weeks of Barry Rule in Japan last year (and also because I weighed myself yesterday and I'm the heaviest I've been since 2G12 ).

This starts this Wednesday. I'm now 4 or so KGs heavier than i was when i wrote this

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:24 pm

I should do Lent too

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:37 pm

Give it a go. I find it great for regaining slipped self discipline.

Post by **Grey Fox** » Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:42 am

My goals for the year are to start another business (don’t know what yet) and be a good dad for my upcoming spawn.

gintanto · Post by **gintanto** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:44 am

Well, I'm not posting in the "I feel old" thread, but that's what caused my resolution of sorts: to be nonstop productive the next few years and see what I can accomplish, so that I don't keep feeling like "Huh, I wonder what life would have been like if I wasn't always slacking off?"

I negotiated reduced hours at work and so far this year I've been blasting through personal projects :-) leaving a blaze of green behind me on my github activity graph.

So far so good.

(background detail, I have a massive collection of "wouldn't it be cool if" project ideas, and over the years they've changed from a source of inspiration to a source of depression.)

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 12:26 pm

I should negotiate reduced hours at work too

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 12:55 pm

Yeah good job with that.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:44 pm

You can reduce your hours at work to zero by never going in.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:48 pm

Good way to reduce your income to zero too.

eightman · Post by **eightman** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:34 pm

passive income for the win.

well i'm not there yet but I can dream.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:42 pm

Passive income is easy, you just need to be so rich that banks will pay you a living wage for the honour of holding onto your fortune.

eightman · Post by **eightman** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:46 pm

that is the safer way. or have desperate people pay you more to borrow it.

but sometimes desperate people don't make the smartest choices about paying things back so it gets troublesome.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:56 pm

Yeah. I'd rather be FDIC insured on my hypothetical fortune.

eightman · Post by **eightman** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:01 pm

Depends. If the collateral is good I'd rather have 12% interest than 3% interest.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:03 pm

I don’t really want to be a mobster though.

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