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Goals for This Year
BlogI wrote up these goals for the year on some dead wood so now I’m transferring them to the digital medium.
Fitness
- Get to 185 lbs / 34" waist: I slipped a bit during the holidays but want to get back to my college graduation weight. Stretch: 180lbs.
- Run Bay to Breakers 13K: Was sick for last year’s running
- Take up a martial art: I’ve always been meaning to get a grasp of a defense art. I’ve chosen Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Sport
- Be able to shoot a handgun within respectable accuracy
- Learn to play golf: last year I bought clubs and developed a swing, now I just need to learn the clubs and when to apply them
- Attempt archery
- Play croquet in the summer in Golden Gate Park (again!)
Fun
- Have some. Really
- Dance regularly
Life
- Be a better communicator with my girlfriend: I don’t think anyone could be too good at this
- Be more mindful: When engaged in something always look for the positive
- Adopt a more positive and less cynical temprament
- Read (did pretty well with this last year)
- Mix literature and non-fiction
- Literature
- Read “The Clown”
- Non-Fiction 1. Globish
- Literature
- Translate Aeneas to Augustus
- Write
- Blog more
1. Share code via Github
- Add RDFa impementation to RedCloth
- De-learn the dvorak keyboard and get back to typing 90+ wpm
Career
- Read
- JavaScript
1. Refresh with Heads First guide
- “…The good parts” 1. Node.JS
- Make a demonstration application
- Read the book
- Ruby
- Refactor LatinVerb into a discrete stack of gems
- Implement in Rail 3.0
- Read HF Servlets
- Read Maven book
- Read HF design patterns
- Pass Scrum Master Cert
- Get feature requests implemented in Cisco Quad
- Markup
- Development staic