It doesn't feel like a lot compared to 2018 or 2019, but there are a few things that count as achievements:
- Jump shipped to a new job weeks before my old company capsized. Also managed to get a raise by doing so.
- Helped three former colleagues who'd stayed on board too long find lifeboats in the form of new jobs.
- Expanded my cooking skills and repertoire by virtue of cooking far more meals at home than most years.
- Set a new record-long bike ride, 50 miles. Overall my second-best year for long-distance biking.
I suppose it's not too bad for a year when it's easy to feel like the answer is "nothing". I've also managed to keep my sanity so far, and avoid catching or spreading the coronavirus, despite the activities that help achieve those sometimes being in conflict.
- Jump shipped to a new job weeks before my old company capsized. Also managed to get a raise by doing so.
- Helped three former colleagues who'd stayed on board too long find lifeboats in the form of new jobs.
- Expanded my cooking skills and repertoire by virtue of cooking far more meals at home than most years.
- Set a new record-long bike ride, 50 miles. Overall my second-best year for long-distance biking.
I suppose it's not too bad for a year when it's easy to feel like the answer is "nothing". I've also managed to keep my sanity so far, and avoid catching or spreading the coronavirus, despite the activities that help achieve those sometimes being in conflict.
Snerk
Smeghead
2020 has been a pretty eventful year. For better or worse, but mostly better I suppose.
+enrolled in a bachelor's degree program in physics. Very demanding but also interesting and rewarding. Exams right around the corner, wish me luck.
+new relationship, 7-8 months or so in now. Very cool girl.
+bought a nice little flat, moving in with my gf this weekend!
-way too little time/energy for exercise, hobbies and fun stuff
-health has been a real b**ch at times, july through october was miserable
-scarier financial status as my savings has mostly been replaced by debt
+enrolled in a bachelor's degree program in physics. Very demanding but also interesting and rewarding. Exams right around the corner, wish me luck.
+new relationship, 7-8 months or so in now. Very cool girl.
+bought a nice little flat, moving in with my gf this weekend!
-way too little time/energy for exercise, hobbies and fun stuff
-health has been a real b**ch at times, july through october was miserable
-scarier financial status as my savings has mostly been replaced by debt
yung.carl.jung
Hey Bird! I'm Morose & Lugubrious
Was about to post how I feel but then realized it was much too depressing for this forum so I will only post the happy bits. I've had the most lucrative job of my entire life, great academic success, basically been more productive than I've ever been in my life. I have a full-time job lined up the moment I finish my degree. Shot my first film project and it was great.
Feeling sad with such good news all around...I'm sorry.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
My achievements ... hmm 
Let's just say that this following super secret video will tell more than a thousand words 
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Let's just say that this following super secret video will tell more than a thousand words :Spoiler My Greatest Achievement of 2020 ! :) :
Amendment to the last post then:
I kind of figured out a health problem (well, the doctor did), which has been bothering me for the last few years. That also makes it on my list, since now life is going to be a bit nicer
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(undiagnosed allergies, which would knock me out at least every second month; now taking anti-histamines, seems to be working)
I kind of figured out a health problem (well, the doctor did), which has been bothering me for the last few years. That also makes it on my list, since now life is going to be a bit nicer
.(undiagnosed allergies, which would knock me out at least every second month; now taking anti-histamines, seems to be working)
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
- Managed to solve the problem I had at the end of last year of stress in my job by moving internally to a position I find less stressful
- adapted to the work-from-home requirement by building myself a more specialised 'study' area in one corner of my living room that should hopefully also make it a bit nicer to play video games on PC (no more sitting on a dining chair in front of a desk barely big enough for the keyboard) - I expect to be a PRO GAMER by the end of 2021
- managed to actually complete my running route despite still being drastically unfit. Next step is to lengthen the route (although I can feel my left knee disintegrating as I age, so this one may elude me)
- have actually been a bit more sociable this year of all years! Thank god for Zoom groups
- early on in the year, pre-lockdown, I actually left the country for the first time in years. Admittedly it was on a business trip and the destination was Luxembourg, hardly the grand tour, but small victories ya know
- kept doing some of the things I like to do, like making cookies, and listening to albums and then waffling on tediously about them. Admittedly I have been shirking on my birdwatching, and I haven't been able to go see classical music performances obviously, so hopefully I can do a bit more of those in 2021
- was actually in a forum game on CFC this year for the first time in what seems like a decade! Pretty nostalgic!
- still technically alive
- adapted to the work-from-home requirement by building myself a more specialised 'study' area in one corner of my living room that should hopefully also make it a bit nicer to play video games on PC (no more sitting on a dining chair in front of a desk barely big enough for the keyboard) - I expect to be a PRO GAMER by the end of 2021
- managed to actually complete my running route despite still being drastically unfit. Next step is to lengthen the route (although I can feel my left knee disintegrating as I age, so this one may elude me)
- have actually been a bit more sociable this year of all years! Thank god for Zoom groups
- early on in the year, pre-lockdown, I actually left the country for the first time in years. Admittedly it was on a business trip and the destination was Luxembourg, hardly the grand tour, but small victories ya know
- kept doing some of the things I like to do, like making cookies, and listening to albums and then waffling on tediously about them. Admittedly I have been shirking on my birdwatching, and I haven't been able to go see classical music performances obviously, so hopefully I can do a bit more of those in 2021
- was actually in a forum game on CFC this year for the first time in what seems like a decade! Pretty nostalgic!
- still technically alive
thecrazyscot
Spiffy
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Had a baby, that seems kinda big. @hobbsyoyo can relate.
Truthy
Chatbot
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Continuing the theme of "really not so bad all things considered":
- published a paper
- grew a beard
- got a new job with much better pay and moved to a new city
- started lifting very consistently and gained around 30 lbs/13.6 kg; this is the first time in my life that I haven't been skinny
- practiced French a lot and got much better. Still a long way away from fluency but it's been a lot of fun and I want to add Spanish into the mix as well
- published a paper
- grew a beard
- got a new job with much better pay and moved to a new city
- started lifting very consistently and gained around 30 lbs/13.6 kg; this is the first time in my life that I haven't been skinny
- practiced French a lot and got much better. Still a long way away from fluency but it's been a lot of fun and I want to add Spanish into the mix as well
Our daughter had a baby boy on December 9th. They now have a girl and a boy. I count that as an accomplishment.
aimeeandbeatles
watermelon
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I somehow didn't die.
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I had a pretty solid year, all things considered. There were certainly some downs, but to focus on the positives:
-I self-published a book and even managed to sell a few to folks who don't know me.
-I brought my blog up to 50 articles and got it to a point where it's at least paying for itself (not really saying much but it's the first hobby that's paid for itself).
-We bought a new house, which is the last one I'm buying before retirement. It's a wonderful neighborhood to raise kids in and my son has several (masked) friends. There's got to be 20 kids + / - 3 years of him here.
-At work, I was asked to take on a new unit early in the year that was struggling and managed to turn them around. They're exceeding the expectations I set for them and are leading the pack in several key metrics.
-I brought 4 Civ2 scenarios to the brink of completion (that annoying part where you only have some minor stuff to do but the energy and passion is just plummeting). I made considerable progress on a secret 5th scenario that I consider my magnum opus
-I spent a lot of time exploring local lakes with my son as travel to more distant ones wasn't happening. We found some new spots that we never would have gone to.
-I helped my son learn how to swim now that we have a pool. He went from struggling to stick his head under water to swimming around like a fish.
-I got to see my daughter grow up (she turned two in August). I felt like I watched my son grow up on videos the babysitters took a few years ago. I missed almost everything because I was at work. It's been a blast seeing my sweetheart start jabbering on, learning new words, starting to sing and dance (she's so cute - she has a little princess dress in her toybox and if she feels like dancing, she goes and grabs it). Honestly spending time with her was just the best. It was so great to be able to go downstairs and have a little tea party when I need to step away for a few moments.
-I self-published a book and even managed to sell a few to folks who don't know me.
-I brought my blog up to 50 articles and got it to a point where it's at least paying for itself (not really saying much but it's the first hobby that's paid for itself).
-We bought a new house, which is the last one I'm buying before retirement. It's a wonderful neighborhood to raise kids in and my son has several (masked) friends. There's got to be 20 kids + / - 3 years of him here.
-At work, I was asked to take on a new unit early in the year that was struggling and managed to turn them around. They're exceeding the expectations I set for them and are leading the pack in several key metrics.
-I brought 4 Civ2 scenarios to the brink of completion (that annoying part where you only have some minor stuff to do but the energy and passion is just plummeting). I made considerable progress on a secret 5th scenario that I consider my magnum opus
-I spent a lot of time exploring local lakes with my son as travel to more distant ones wasn't happening. We found some new spots that we never would have gone to.
-I helped my son learn how to swim now that we have a pool. He went from struggling to stick his head under water to swimming around like a fish.
-I got to see my daughter grow up (she turned two in August). I felt like I watched my son grow up on videos the babysitters took a few years ago. I missed almost everything because I was at work. It's been a blast seeing my sweetheart start jabbering on, learning new words, starting to sing and dance (she's so cute - she has a little princess dress in her toybox and if she feels like dancing, she goes and grabs it). Honestly spending time with her was just the best. It was so great to be able to go downstairs and have a little tea party when I need to step away for a few moments.
Henri Christophe
L'empereur
I wrote a book.
Please tell us more.
Henri Christophe
L'empereur
It's a book from my homeland, Kwanzaa, who smoke that much weed and become an Orisha Logun Edé.
Also have some romance among Edé's fathers and Edé and Isabela.
