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July 01, 2005

Totally the opposite of progress

Gosh, is 2005 halfway done already? Amazing how time flies when you're having fun.

As astute readers may remember, 6 months ago tomorrow (yes, I was a day late), I made a bunch of resolutions for the coming year. As threatened, I'm going to review how I'm getting on with them.

  1. Get fitter. I have made absolutely no progress on this, although when I had my blood pressure taken recently it was normal, rather than the high end of the safe range, and I did walk up Snowdon not so long ago. So, maybe marginal progress.
  2. Drink less beer. Utterly failed. Summer is going well on this score, though, since I'm working far too much to drink heavily. I mostly only drink beer if my boss is paying, now. September will be the real test on this score though — will I start again when term begins and I'm not working 7 nights a week?
  3. Cook more. I now subscribe to some cooking blogs, and am maintaining some recipe bookmarks. I've cooked a few new things, and been taught some Turkish recipes, so maybe I'm getting somewhere on this. I still eat a lot of takeout, ready meals and stuff thrown under the grill, though.
  4. OpenGuides stuff. Well, OGN has doubled its page count, and I've submitted a wishlist bug to rt.cpan.org that I intend to have a go at implementing some time. I haven't actually done anything yet, though. Still, some progress, I suppose.
  5. Clear some debts. Not doing too well on this one...
  6. Decide what to do with my life. Not really sure on this one — I have some ideas of what I might want to do, but nothing concrete I definitely want to end up doing. Still, definite progress here.
  7. Get a degree. I averaged a 3rd last year, overall. This is totally the opposite of progress.
  8. Blog better. I like to think I've been putting more interesting stuff on here than before, with the exception of posts like this one, but you're welcome to disagree; if you do, please say so! I have no ego to puncture.

So. Marginal progress on 5/8 and complete failure on 3. Life could be worse. Somewhat foolishly, I'm not going to revise the targets at all, I'm just going to try get a lot further with them in the next 6 months than the last...

Posted by James at 01:04
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