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For the first time in my life, I find myself writting in my head a list of goals I want to achieve next year. Some are mundane, some are harder to achieve. I thought about sharing that list here.

Please consider sharing yours as well. Consider it like sharing ideas, something to push others in to thinking about small things they can do as well just because they can.

Now, without further ado:

The List

survive

A reminder from j4k3. Should always be a priority.

renew my entire fleet of hand tools and, if money allows it, some power tools

I have lot of maintenance chores, renovations and improvements to do around the house and my current tool stock is essentially shot, so...

start making furniture for my house

Have you seen the price furniture goes for these days? I have a carpentry shop nearby willing to look at my doodles and work out the details with me and make the rough cutting of the big pieces that require precision tools for it. I'll have to take care of the rest.

put together a cook book with my partner

This just came to me/us the other day.

Throughout this year, we shared with a good number of people food from our table. We are not foodies nor trained chefs, we just enjoy having good, tasty, healthy food. Many people told us they could never make what we cook daily and a few even told us we should open a place of our own. Because we're not that insane yet, the book will do.

No publishing intention: it will be about putting together a collection of recipes anyone can follow and share it. All inclusive.

paint the freaking walls
finish that computer tech course

I've been playing with computers for twenty+ years. Now I want my know-how recognized. And on this I have money tied and a deadline!

write my own first book (romance, with raunchy bits)

Or should I say just put it together? I write my fantasies basically since I was taught to put letters together to form words. My biggest flaw is that I'm my worst critic and I drop draft after draft. Well... it needs to end.

work with my dogs

I have two, very over reactive dogs. Of the big kind, that are constantly fighting each other for no reason. I need to do something to counter this.

get back on working on my plot of land

That place is a fire hazard and I want to start growing my own food again.

read more books

As an added incentive to culture and reading habits: support an online ebook repository, download and keep offline copies of as many books you can manage. Culture is the worst enemy of bigotry and ignorance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In a brief moment of clarity I told my wife we should do dry January.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Last year I set out with the vague goal to improve my relationship to food and honestly had a lot of success.

This year I'm choosing another vague goal which is to improve my relationship with leisure time / entertainment. Hoping to take on reading more, vegging less, and trying to do more artistic endeavors etc. basically trying to move towards digital minimalism.

Getting of reddit about 2 months ago was tough but now I don't miss it much at all and I get on Lemmy for maybe .5 hours a day. I switched to graphene and my Google stuff is in another user profile so no more mobile email checking. I'm shooting for more of that this year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The List is always a subject to change:

Change a job
Go on a date
Grow spiritually and go back closer to God
Go back to university to learn something that I actually enjoy (Programming) + move to another town

My life is divided by relese sheadule of anime seasons.

As fall 2024 is ending and winter 2025 is beginning, I want to set myself a theme so I can grow in a particular direction in the next 3 months.

I am not really sure right now what should I prioritise as all those things are important.

I am currently working in a trash job with trash money on a non-existing contract. I long for a touch of another human being. I feel empty without God and the uncertanity of supporting myself during studies is making me anxious.

All those things I have sacraficed maitainance on, so I could work on more fundamental problems. And now as I have mostly solved the problem that caused to dropout of Uni twice, I don't know what to work towards for the next 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

survive
try to force myself back into a daily physical therapy routine that seems nearly impossible for me now
do my best to partition off my circumstantial depression from the existential fear of homelessness with my physical disability against the courage to end it on my terms
try living on solar time by building an ESP-32 clock that tracks the local solar time instead of time zones and cultural habits
try plating copper through holes and do a ridiculous multilayer home made PCB with 6 or more layers
finish my toolbox drawer lighting with some integrated 3d printed wire connectors
read some Arthur C. Clark
figure out netboot and run a server I can spin up from my phone with a small LLM as a proof of concept
replicate Ben Eater's 6502 project with another processor, probably the Z80 or 6809
try to figure out a way to flash a generic Rockchip based Android tablet that has a corrupt Linux kernel and bootloader

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why would you live on solar time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The timing of noon is primarily what centers the day and the distribution of daylight hours. I'm in social isolation from physical disability. So standardized time becomes more of a psychological burden than a concept that hold value. Standard time comes with many cultural expectations that mostly come from within, but are born from life experience.

I hypothesize that by rejecting standard time in favor of solar time, I create a framework of logic that enables me to reject all the cultural expectations and associated baggage. I'm no longer "waking up early" or "going to bed late". My psychology of what is late or early is no longer dictated by the standardization of time. I am not a train station or a stock exchange. I am a human of Earth, and my natural circadian existence is that of a diurnal animal in obeisance to the stellar powerhouse driving life on this planet. My noon is the center of my day and to say otherwise is heretical to life itself.

That's not to say standard time has no uses or value. I am of the belief that I should own myself by taking complete ownership of my day and relegate the subjugation of standard time to nothing more than a tool I access when I choose instead of a jurisdiction I live within.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds potentially freeing but what do you do about work or making plans with others?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I would coordinate with their preferred time. I don't eat meals or go anywhere except to the doctor every 3 months. I eat when I'm hungry, not when I'm told or fed like a farm animal. I mostly struggle with the psychology that staying up late is an act of rebellious freedom. As silly as it seems, I struggle to overcome that in practice. Yet I've worked every imaginable shift including 7/12's at night for months at a time in the past. I've raced bicycles when my start time for my category is just before sunrise. I can absolutely control my timing of my day, but I can't defeat the psychology that I'm subjugating myself in some way when I do so. I'm not naturally a morning person. So why should I let standard time dictate when morning time is or is not.

I went from 350lbs to 190lbs because I took control over my diet and the psychology of meals and arbitrary food consumption that I struggled with growing up. I'm willing to bet that time holds a similar subtly unhealthy twist on daily psychology. That is an internal perspective that has little relevance to interactions with anyone that may or may not have a similar self awareness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My list is short: Don’t let another Trump term sap my ability to enjoy life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Valid!