mdlbear | River: Good Riddance to 2021 (Reply)

Hey, 2021! Don't let the door hit you on the way out. And I thought 2020 was bad... Last New Year's day I wrote:

I would like to think that 2021 will be an improvement on its predecessor, but I am not so foolish as to say so out loud for fear that it will be taken as a challenge.

It didn't work. A year that starts with an insurrection (which one assumes was just practice for the next one), goes on to include my wife dying half-way through, and ends with being snowed in, is not a good year by any stretch of the imagination.

So here are my goals from last year:

I'm going to put self-care back at the top this year,... back exercises, walking,... getting vaccinated against COVID-19,... [l]osing weight,... and [m]ental self-care. (5 sub-goals, but fractional completion is likely for most of them.)
Um, right. 20% each. Back exercises: I count 76, so 20*76/365~=4 percentage points. Walking: 54 -> 3. Getting vaxed: 20. I said it would be a no-brainer. Losing weight: that's easy -- 0. Finally, mental self-care. I think I'm going to give myself 20 for this one: I didn't actually do much, but I didn't fall apart either. Total: 47/100.
[T]aking care of Colleen.
I did what I could. She had two weeks at home before her final 10 days in the hospital, and I was able to visit her there, and be there when she finally left me. 100.
Wrapping up Mom's estate... taking charge of her computer, files, and any online accounts....
As it turned out, I still haven't really dealt with the computer and accounts, and there are plenty of financial loose ends, but I'm going to say 45 anyway.
Update paperwork, because 2020. Wills, advanced directives, powers of attorney, Colleen's passport and ID renewals, and guides to my paper and electronic files. (10 items total, to make it easy at year's end.)
Well, I started... just barely. And I at least looked at my existing will; it's close, anyway. Half of those 10 items proved to be moot, of course. I'm going to say 10/50=20.
Music: singing ... and hopefully recording... recorded or streamed concerts, too... Two hours of singing per week gives a nice solid total of 100
Well, 95 lines in the log, which is more than I expected, but most of those were a lot less than half an hour. I'm going to say 50%, which I suspect is an overestimate.
Doing the rest of the sorting in the garage would be a good idea too. Sub-goals of getting all the book boxes sorted and re-boxed by category, sweeping out the northeast corner, putting up the lights, and making the workbench usable.
I got one light up, and sorted somewhere over half the boxes. 25%?
[D]ecluttering, ... downsizing, ... Getting rid of Stuff. Finding places for things. Moving to Seattle part-time makes that hard to assess, but I'll give myself 25% for this mostly because of Colleen's stuff.
I should write more.
Ha! 15%, maybe? Hmm: 168 posts and over 100K words so far this year, and I almost forgot to include $writing-gigs 3-6. Maybe I should say 75%? Still doesn't feel like it.
[W]ebsite maintenance needed, including updates to lyrics, cleaning out cruft in the older websites, and creating a memorial page for Mom.
10% maybe? That's being generous.
I should write more software, too... tracking singing and self-care time, auto-linking concerts and DW posts from song pages, and the long-delayed command-line DW client.
Mostly a lot of 1-liners for tracking, `make save` in MakeStuff/blogging, and not much else. 10, maybe.

Total for all that, 47 + 100 + 45 + 20 + 50 + 25 + 25 + 75 + 10 + 10 = 407/1000, which rounds to 41%. Pretty poor, compared to 68% last year and even 48% in 2019. But I've already said that 2021 was a bad year. I got through it, which maybe should have been a goal all by itself.

As for posting, ...

Posting stats:
all of 2021 by month:
  10548 words in 17 posts in 2021/01 (average 620/post)
   6945 words in 12 posts in 2021/02 (average 578/post)
   6914 words in 12 posts in 2021/03 (average 576/post)
  11164 words in 19 posts in 2021/04 (average 587/post)
  11244 words in 15 posts in 2021/05 (average 749/post)
   6672 words in 11 posts in 2021/06 (average 606/post)
   9853 words in 13 posts in 2021/07 (average 757/post)
   9099 words in 15 posts in 2021/08 (average 606/post)
   9155 words in 15 posts in 2021/09 (average 610/post)
  11220 words in 17 posts in 2021/10 (average 660/post)
   7573 words in 13 posts in 2021/11 (average 582/post)
   7059 words in 11 posts in 2021/12 (average 641/post)
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 107446 words in 170 posts total in 2021 (average 632/post)