2013 was a pretty good year for me. My health is good, I bought a new car and I’m pretty happy overall. So I have no real complaints. I set some goals for the year, let’s take a look at how I did.

  • C programming – As my nephew George would say, ‘Epic Fail’. I didn’t spend any time on this.
  • Finish the kitchen – While I’m not done, I would call this a great success. I did hold off until I had $10,000 saved, which means I didn’t really start anything until June. And I’ve made great progress, while not done, I do think it will be finished in the first half of this year.
  • Take an overnight bike trip – While I took an overnight train to NYC to do a long bike ride, I’m pretty sure that’s not what I was talking about here. So, I failed on this one.
  • Electronics – I didn’t work through the Eagle tutorials, but I did buy a robot and played with that. So if not a complete fail, it’s close to it.
  • Book – Fail. Didn’t do much on this. While I did write some short blog posts, nothing close to a book came out of me.
  • Bicycling – Success! I did bike a lot this year. Possibly I talked about it a bit too much, so I’ll try to reign that in. But I’m happy with this one.
  • Ruby – Success, though not in the idea of converting a bunch of my old scripts to ruby. Instead I did a decent job of writing some new sites in ruby.
  • Computational Geometry – This was a neat idea, but I didn’t do anything with it. Epic fail.
  • Welding – I did take a one-day welding class, which is a goal I had two years ago. So, it was late, but it got done.

The big one in that list is redoing the kitchen. That is a ridiculous amount of work. And I will say that there were a couple of times during the year when I thought that it really wasn’t all worth it…I should have just stayed in the condo…etc. But once I reminded myself that no one held a gun to my head to buy this house, I got back to work. So the kitchen pretty much overwhelmed everything else. And this trend will continue in the new year until I get it finished.