Last Year In Review

Thoughts and stats of 2016, an idea stolen from jnerula.

Previously

• 2015

Accomplishments

• Did a lot of camping this year
• Three years living in Portland
• Three years working at Copious
• Good progress rock climbing, aside from finger injury in March
  • Climbed at Bishop, CA
  • Climbed at Smith Rock, OR
  • Climbed at Leavenworth, WA
• Started fly fishing
  • Lots of trout and bass during summer
  • No luck with steelhead so far
• Got another car
  • 2005 OBXT Limited
• Contributed to several Open Source projects
  • Community Chef cookbooks
  • Projects of friends

Books read

Again, I didn’t read as much as I would have liked. Would like to really make a bigger change here this upcoming year.

• TODO
• TODO
• TODO

Side-Projects

Not as many projects as I would have liked, but my focus this year has been mostly on outdoor things. I did manage to release several Chef cookbooks that our company uses under the MIT license.

Succeeded

• varnish
• redis
• mysql
• nginx
• ntp
• iptables

Limbo

Failed

Regrets

• Didnt save enough money
• Not enough time off from work
• Didn’t take enough film photographs
• Didn’t develop my own photos
• Engine in Outback blew up and cost a lot
• Not traveling outside US
• Not learning a new language (again)

Goals from 2015

Didn’t get many goals done, I think the tech and photo really took a back seat to climbing and fishing. Granted, the climbing was also impacted from a finger injury that I was slow to return from. Father travel will require more planning.

• Photography
  • Develop film from home (failed)
  • Submit work for an art show (failed)
  • Create a small zine (failed)
• Programming
  • Learn C and js (failed)
  • Dabble in a dialect of lisp (failed)
  • Release a project in C (failed)
• Japanese
  • Take a class (failed)
  • Find a pen pal (failed)
  • Bought books (success)
• Climbing
  • More multi-pitch (sorta?)
  • Learn trad (wimped out)
  • V7 indoor (PG PDX), V3 outdoor (success! V4 in Bishop, working V7 at PG)
  • 11d indoor (PG PDX), 11b outdoor (failed, mostly mental/wimping out)
• Travel
  • Japan (failed)
  • Iceland (failed)
  • Norway (failed)

Goals for 2017

I’m going to steal some from last year, they’re too good and I really should have done them. I still really want to learn Japanese and do some film.

• Put motorcycle back together by Summer
• Golf
  • Score round less than 85
  • Score round of 80
• Climbing
  • Try trad
  • V8 send and V6 flash at PG PDX, V6 outdoor
  • 11d send and 11b onsight indoor at PG PDX, 11b outdoor
  • Summit two local peaks
    • Hood
    • Adams?
    • Helens?
    • South Sister?
• Photography
  • Develop film from home
  • Submit work for an art show
  • Create a small seasonal zine
• Programming
  • Learn C and Go
  • Dabble in a dialect of lisp
• Japanese
  • Take a class
  • Find a pen pal
• Fishing
  • Tie my own flies
  • Catch a winter steelhead
  • Catch a summer steelhead
  • Catch a summer steelhead on a skated fly
  • Catch a brown trout in OR
• Travel
  • Greece in September to Kalymnos
  • Bouldering trip in February, Bishop or Red Rocks NV
  • Fishing trip in June or July
  • Iceland or Japan?

Random Stats

Weight: lol?

Commits: 1,576

Bike miles: 402.7