A year ago, to the day, I said that I would do a bunch of stuff in 2018. Well, if you want to hear God Laugh, tell him your plans…
Life was sort of turn upside down this year with continuing hip issues, an unplanned knee surgery, a job change, house rebuild craziness. If you factor in my own laziness, stubbornness, and my A+ skill level of procrastination I did not get even half of my list ticked off. From that list of 50 Things, the items below are what I actually did get done:
Organize my chaos in the shop and basement. – Basement done!
Sell, donate, recycle, or throw away shit that I do not use.
Use my planner and notebooks as tools not as something that I “have” to use.
Take my desk at home back and make it a conducive writing space.
Fly my drones more
Finish my CJ-7 Jeep restoration
Sign up for a letterpress class at SVC Downtown
Take another blacksmithing class at The Pratt
Give some $$ to Heifer and MFS
Be involved in politics more: financially and with a time commitment
Finish the house remodel – even if I have to pay a contractor to do it (shudder…)
Make.More.Stuff!!
Ride my snowboard and skateboard because I am not too old or too fat
Road trip in WA and on West Coast more
Take my wife on vacation
For 2019, I am going to keep it a little simpler:
- Work really hard to stay healthy and avoid any more orthopedic surgery
- Quit Twitter for good this time.
- Get on my bike
- Lose the extra weight
- Be a great engineer
- Make better and better YouTube videos.
- Read more
- Spend more time with Family
- Worry about the house less
- Finish and USE my shop to its fullest.
- Be happier and remove negative folks and situations from my day to day.
- Take some more classes
- Make more friends
- Be involved in my community
- Buy and consume less
- Simplify