General:
- Save 20% of our income
- Take a family vacation
- Get a nice (professional) family photo taken
- Consolidate my old retirement accounts
- Renew the kids' passports
- Publish one piece of writing a week (a blog post, freelance piece, etc)
- Update my personal site's visual style to improve readability and make blog posts more prominent
Cooking:
- Cook five new things, from at least three from different sources (cookbooks, websites, etc)
BJJ: Variety, Confidence, Fitness
- Visit at least six gyms that aren't mine
- Roll with any new person who comes in the gym
- Roll for one continuous 30-minute round
Projects:
- Launch at least one project from my brainstorm list
- Make a game other people can play
- Generate at least $1,000 in revenue from side projects
Exercise:
- 60 minutes of cardio per week
- 60 minutes of stretching or mobility work per week
- 60 minutes of weight training per week
- Swim across the pond (and back) at Hale
Books to read:
- Heretics of Dune
- Chapterhouse: Dune
- InkHeart
- Her Own Hero
- The Great Gatsby
- Star Wars: Into the Light
- Why I Cook
- Star Wars: Trials of the Jedi
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Uniquely Human
Books in consideration:
- Moby Dick
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- To Raise a Boy
- These Truths
- Rich, White and Blue
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- The Round House: A Novel
- Southern Cross the Dog
- The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
- The Goldfinch: A Novel
- Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
- The Underground Railroad: A Novel
- Exit West: A Novel
- Educated: A Memoir
- Sourdough: A Novel
- Pachinko
- The Dutch House: A Novel
- The Island of Sea Women: A Novel
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Horse
- Learning to Optimize Movement
- Demon Copperhead
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- Mother Night
- Let Us Descend
- West with Giraffes
- The Three-Body Problem
- Parable of the Sower
- Leviathan Wakes
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- Psalm for the Wild Built
- James
Books
Feb. 5: Heretics of Dune definitely feels like it was meant to start a new era in the series. The whole thing felt like it was setting up something, which maybe happens at the end but also maybe doesn't. One more to go.
March 24: I read Inkheart with the 9-year-old and we both enjoyed it. Parts might've been on the scary side for him, but the writing was great. I'm tempted to find the sequel.
March 27: Finished Chapterhouse and with it, the whole original Dune series. It's a sort of lackluster ending, so I might pick up the continuation novels at some point, but I'm definitely ready to read something else for a bit.
April 30: The Great Gatsby was, actually, pretty good. Enjoyed it much more than in high school.
June 2: Into the Light was fine. Really, I'm just ready to be done with the High Republic. One more book, I think.
June 30: Finished Her Own Hero. Great research and super interesting, kind of a slog to read.
July 16: Why I Cook was a quick read, going through Tom Colicchio's life in restaurants, framing it around his struggles with ADHD, plus lots of recipes. It's as much cookbook as memoir. I'll probably cook a few more things from it.
July 27: Trials of the Jedi wraps up the main High Republic series, and I'm happy to be done with it. Individually, the books are fine. Some are even good. The series and project as a whole is a mess.
Sept. 1: A Gentleman in Moscow is easily the best thing I've read all year. I wanted the opposite of Star Wars and this was that in all the right ways. I need to find a list of dishes in the book and make a few of them.
Oct. 6: Finally finished Uniquely Human. I've been picking it up and putting it down for two years, but it was time to finish it. Happy I did.