What have you achieved this year? 2023 edition

[Kyriakos]

Somewhat predictably, an annual thread.

The most external achievement for me certainly was the completion of my third literary seminar (filming of the video parts for it begins today ^^ ). Important particularly for financial reasons, but it's nice that by now around 1000 people have read the seminars...
Your turn!

(Link to previous thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/what-have-you-achieved-this-year-2022-edition.680748/)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

3 months of NaNoWriMo. Increased my knowledge and appreciation of the BBC Merlin TV show and Arthurian legends in general. I've been doing research on a variety of historical subjects, most notably the Glencoe Massacre of 1692 (it's going to play a major part in a Merlin/Highlander fanfic I'm planning). I've been reacquainting myself with that series and characters.

 

[Synobun]

Unfortunately, the giant list of last year's achievements is not repeated this year. I, in fact, have nothing to put here this time. It was a year of survival. Nothing more. I suffered colossal setbacks in every aspect of my life. Everything has fallen apart in incredible ways, and there is no real hope of that changing. It's been a long, terrible year of loss.

It does seem like last year was an enormous blip. Life has since dutifully corrected the timeline.

 

[Kyriakos]

:/ Then again last year was monumental for you, so in that sense it's not as bad

 

[Tommy Vercetti]

Made a lot of progress on my many projects and on my mental health recovery.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Dragged myself one full year closer to my eventual demise.

 

[r16]

clearly it has been a busy hence successful year for some . Made a search for the threads in the series and they would well start in November . Earliest ı find is 2015 (accused of producing SW movies) 2016 (bragging for not accused of producing SW movies hence the Stuntwoman in town dynamics which ruined my life for a while) , one for B-Wing , one for Y-Wing . Last year was F-24 . Can't find X-Wing or TIE Fighter years . Imagine there was an F-84 year somewhere , too ...

so , ı have still nothing in conjectural engineering this year but ı might do some MiG-17 instead . Or even a Scimitar of RN , who knows ?

everything else is like based on trolling and whatnot . Star Wars Outlaws is still not Hanna Solo and Chewchucca .



like ı was dying to use this picture and have nowhere else ... But make no mistakes , am not bragging about anything . Say , when there are stuff which are way better .

Spoiler :

somewhere else on the web . They used to hate UFOs but have started to love bigtime because Pentagon claims to have so high tech that can see Aliens , unlike the rest of the world . The guy in question lacks imagination , keeps asking for proof of everything . Accordingly when he is out in Las Vegas , broad daylight and all , he sees them . High up above . One of them is the civilian airliner that has intercepted the target on behalf of the US Goverment and the pilots are using their cellphones to film it from all possible angles . Gotta understand the target is flying in contrail level so that it will be spotted ... It is a triple thing , like Benz insignia without the ring around and the guy understands it well enough , because he is German himself . Finally finds the courage to talk about it after a week and his forum pals do the number on him , making the first few from the hundred suggestions to cloud his experience and cover it up . The US Goverment will not want anyone to think stuff can take off from Mainland China and make it to Continental US in tactical speeds , right ? Elections and Maga crowd loving the balloons so much and all ...

the additional thing here is that some nutjobs are suggesting that the Felon codename should be re-assigned from the Su-57 . Returning it to Flatfish . Making up the Fishbed-Fishpot team again which only means MiG 1.44 Flatpack has suddenly become real . More heat added by a Russian who claims various Ferrets , MiG-37 generally only a scale model kit which kids and grown ups glue together . Because all the wargames and stuff have always used Felon for whatever would eventually be made in Ankara . Even causes the guy (who once saw a plane in the 1980s that still remains unidentified because America loves the idea that tney have a lot of stuff in the Black and everybody should fear them) to support there should be bans for a lot of people ... Yeah , expert trolling we should all aspire to .

 

[GenMarshall]

Career wise, still stable and going onto my second year. Personally and emotionally, I feel as I was making some progress early in the year, but feel like I've taken five steps back.

 

[Gorbles]

Family life continues pretty much as-expected, though health issues are increasingly more rampant in this beautiful new post-Covid reality (where everybody seems to keep picking up new Covid strains). Makes me wonder for our kids, longer-term, but as-is just have to carry on with what we've got and try not to think about the semi-permanent cough a 6 year old already has, given that the doctors basically ignore it.

Whew. Bit of a derail. Still, it's an achievement getting through this stuff, because it's stuff we have to well, get through.

Professionally I've achieved more than ever, with a couple of substantial projects coming up. The company / product is still managed very haphazardly, but honestly I don't think I'd know how to operate in a properly-professional setup. It's frustrating, because I like a bunch of the stuff I work on - when I get to work on it - and yet at the same time there are huge (predictable) blow-ups that could be avoided if things were just thought about more in advance. We react to pretty much everything, instead of planning for the future (and then plans for the future get disrupted by the messes in the now, and then we're in the future and are once again stuck reacting to the next thing).

Not sure where I'm going with that, it's a surprisingly specialised field with only one major competitor, but it looks like they've spent the past few years really cleaning up their act, while we've been lurching from one Frankenstein-like feature to another. C'est la vie. I'll make it work. Just a bit tired of the endless trials by fire, despite being on the low end wage-wise for my position and experience (though still, earning more than I ever thought I would, so can't really complain there).

Hobby-wise, as usual, kids + work + needing to lie down on the floor and "let" one of my cats sit on my back takes up enough of my time that I don't really have any projects. I'd like to again, one day. I do a bit of community volunteering for Age of Empires IV, that's been fun. Some other ongoing bits and pieces. But generally I try not to commit to things like that anymore, for the same reason (time).

I think that's a new record for dash-phrase density in my posts. Go me.

 

[Birdjaguar]

it's a surprisingly specialised field with only one major competitor, but it looks like they've spent the past few years really cleaning up their act,

Send them your resume?

 

[Theov]

Achieved:
March: quit drinking (lowered it before, but since March quit completely)
July: started to learn how to roller-skate
September: graduation for a bachelor's degree
November: PB on 10K, practicing for my first half-marathon
November: re-did our aquarium

Didn't achieve:
study Chinese
lose enough weight
build a website that I planned to make
didn't roller-skate enough to my liking

 

[dusters]

January - May I worked a lot. I felt like I could finally sustain myself with private lessons earning 400 - 900+ euros per month. It is a lot for a single person living as his own boss, having private company here in Latvia. I worked 5-7 days a week, taught 3-4 subjects at once. Paid all taxes. And still earned that much. I dream of living from art, but pedagogy is good as well.

June I started working as a nanny for a 5 year old boy. It was not easy and pleasant, he had huge behavior issues, but we somehow managed to make it work for 5 months.

August I attended a camp with not so close friends. It was a rather harsh environment, waking up at 8 am, living together with older men, my gazebo where I lived for 9 days straight.
I realized how different I am from average person there. So creative, I drew several pictures, wrote a poem in Japanese, wrote a story as well I think. So lonely, not having a close friend to talk to for 9 days.
I kinda sworn to myself that I won't go to such a place alone ever again. When I find a gf, I might go there together with her.

September refurbishments/innovations for my kitchen started and they took 1.5 month to complete. The repair master worked for a long time and did it very scrupulously. End result is worth it 1000%.

Sometime in autumn I picked up throwing darts seriously again. Also table tennis. I started my own Creative school together with a friend of mine in September. We have had origami, Plasticine, water-painting, music improvisation, embroidery, graffiti masterclasses so far. We will have makrame knotting next Monday.

I started teaching chess in late November to 4 - 7 year old kids.

I am trying to date. I joined Tinder in early February and found one woman. It didn't turn out well. Now I have a date scheduled for 10th December, this Sunday.

It has been a year of change. I have changed a lot, my flat got renovated, my identity is changing, I took male hormones this year.

I wish for a creative next year. It is easy to say I want to find a soulmate, but it is true. At age of 36, I am less naive, less fancy, more practical. I am trying to be more handy.

 

[EnglishEdward]

It was a year of survival.

Well, best wishes for 2024.

Dragged myself one full year closer to my eventual demise.

Well I am being dragged that way, but I am trying to resist and delay things.

..where everybody seems to keep picking up new Covid strains..

Ditto.

I survived my hoover tumble dryer catching fire, and managed to dodge a few more deluded no lights
black clad cyclists and electric scooter riders. They seem a bit like rabbits, forever multiplying in the dark.

Hope to win the Duck Chess competition again, but I suspect my previously surprised
competitors may have properly studied up this time around.

 

[Snerk]

Stupid health issues somewhat thwarted my first half of the year, but the second half was better.

+ If I pass my final exam on Thursday, I'll have banked a degree in physics. Noice! But don't worry I'm still a moron.
+ We've managed to keep our offspring alive for yet another year. Which is nice. Might have to take limited credit here tho.
+ First attempt at some minor produce with great success. More to come next year.

- Not kept enough touch with my friends at CFC

 

[Kyriakos]

^Sounds awesome, actually (apart from the first half of the opening sentence)

 

[PhroX]

Not much, but I didn't make things worse, so that's good enough.

 

[Akka]

As stated in the "goals for 2023" thread, I've already checked my main list and am now in cruise control in my life.
So basically, this year has been low on the "achievements scale", simply because I've little left to aim for (maybe get enough money to be able to move somewhere with even less neighbours to enjoy the quiet ? Or have enough money to not be afraid to ever lose my job ?) as most of it has already been achieved.
Unlike the state of the world, the state of my life satisfies me.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Demolished most of my TBR pile -- 80% so far, and aim to get that closer to 90% before year's end. Started grad school. Finished a few certificates from coursera in basic cloud operations in Workspace and Azure, and then certification in Workspace administration.

Still struggling with weight gain from transplant meds. Didn't do any traveling, mostly because I used all my leave time for doctor's appointments, etc. Going to go on a weekend trip in a couple of weeks to explore a national forest and nearby cave.

 

[Kyriakos]

What are your studying plans? Learning (relatively) later on in life can be awesome ^^

 

[Smellincoffee]

What are your studying plans? Learning (relatively) later on in life can be awesome ^^

I'm thirty seven! I'm not old!

More seriously, I'm pursuing a master's in library and information science with a focus on digital libraries. I do local history and IT at my library and we've just snagged a grant to start digitizing some of our local history records, which I'm excited about because as a researcher, I love being able to dig through resources like photo galleries, scanned letters ,etc. I realize I don't know anything about creating and organizing a digital library, though, so I applied for grad school and started doing a database course on Coursera. Plus, the only other MLS at my library is the director, who got hers in the 1980s, so we really need someone with more relevant knowledge. I don't know that I'll be here forever, but I would like to make my mark on the local history collection.