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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

Books to read:

  • Heretics of Dune
  • Chapterhouse: Dune
  • InkHeart
  • Her Own Hero
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Star Wars: Into the Light

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
  • Why I Cook
  • The Inner Game of Tennis
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I will never consolidate my 401ks but it is also on my list 😆 . Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

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eyeseast commented Jan 16, 2025 •
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Cooking

Jan. 8: This pineapple chicken was pretty good. It's basically a sweet and sour chicken variation. I stir fried everything separately before combining at the end, which I think was the right choice. Could have cut the pineapple smaller. Would make again.

Jan. 12: Made Jean Varda chicken from San Francisco a la Carte for Laura's birthday. She's made it a bunch of times, but this was my first try. Had to run out to the store at the last minute for bread, because dipping bread in sauce is pretty much the whole point.

Jan. 19: Did these country-style ribs in the slow cooker. Not bad, maybe too much cumin, probably good on a sandwich.

Feb. 18: Made a Chinese-takeout style lemon chicken from an old cookbook. (My MIL sent us a bunch of photocopied pages, along with a bunch of lemons from her backyard.) Decent, not amazing. It's deep fried in the wok, using a batter of cornstarch and egg yolks.

April 2: We did this larb-like thing with ground turkey, snap peas and bell peppers in the wok, and it was a surprise hit (with three out of four of us). I want to make real larb now.

April 20: This porchetta made with pork shoulder is one of the best things I've done on the smoker, or maybe in this kitchen. Lots of prep, but I had Tony butterfly the meat for me and everything was pretty straightforward after that. I ended up with two smaller cuts instead of one large one, and that also made the cook faster. Will definitely try this again, maybe with different filling (Calabrian chile paste?).

June 2: Did my first outdoor stir fry, using the side burner on the new grill. This recipe was good, but it definitely would have set off the smoke alarm inside.

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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.

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Gyms

Got a regular training day going with Ben and Conor (at Ben's place), so I can do more game-based BJJ rounds and get Ben's help with kettlebells. That's been great.

Visited Danger Room in Minneapolis when I was there for NICAR. Made me realize how out-of-practice I am in the gi.

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