General:
- Save 20% of our income
- Take a family vacation
- Get a nice (professional) family photo taken
- Unsubscribe from at least half my current RSS feeds
- Find a better system for organizing and sharing family photos and videos
Cooking:
- Cook five new things, from at least three from different sources (cookbooks, websites, etc)
- Find a good dairy-free ice cream recipe
Projects:
- Launch at least one project from my brainstorm list
- Automate link updates on my personal site
- Build something involving physical computing (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc)
- Make a game other people can play
Exercise:
- 50 pushups a day (or 350 a week)
- 60 minutes of cardio per week
- 60 minutes of stretching per week
- Find an indoor workout I can stick with
Books to read:
- Song of Achilles
- Light of the Jedi
- Victory's Price
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
- The Rising Storm
- The Rancho Gordo Heirloom Bean Guide
- An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
- Cerci
- Dune
- Dune Messiah
Books in consideration:
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Iraq + 100
- 1984
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- The Fifth Season
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- Grant
- The Kid Stays in the Picture
- A Plague of Doves
- Moby Dick
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Great Gatsby
- Common Ground
- The Library Book
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- These Truths
Books:
Started the year with Song of Achilles, which was great. Going to read Circe soon.
Light of the Jedi is good. Not amazing, but good enough. Lots of world-building and table-setting.
Read Victory's Price to finish out the Alphabet Squadron trilogy. Good, kind of a downer, fleshing out the Star Wars galaxy a bit more.
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is fantastic. Wish I'd read it a decade or two ago.
The Rancho Gordo Heirloom Bean Guide: I might be going hard on beans these days.
The Rising Storm is better than Light of the Jedi. More happens. The old jedi are kind of boring, though.
An Everlasting Meal is another book I wish I'd read at least 10 years ago. Honestly one of the best books I've read about food and cooking as practice.
Cerci might be the best book I've read all year, maybe in a while. I hope Madeline Miller writes more books.
Dune is great. I read it in 2003 and it was nice to go back to it before seeing the movie.
Jumped right into Dune Messiah after reading Dune. Don't regret it.