River: What the heck have I done?

More specifically, what the heck have I done in the last year? It occurred to me that last year's New Year's Eve post was mostly about what I failed to do last year. That fits my mood way too well, but it isn't good for me. There's a reason why my "done since" logs include entries for things I hadn't planned. I'll try not to bore you with statistics, though. I'll mostly just try to remember.

So, in no particular order,

• I took care of Colleen. That needs a little qualification, since she spent all but two weeks out of April, May, and June in one hospital or nursing home or another. And not all of them permitted visitors. But I hope I helped her keep her spirits up, and I was with her at the end. And it involved doing things so far out of my comfort zone that I couldn't even see my comfort zone without binoculars.
• I did a lot of related stuff after she passed, though it doesn't really feel like a lot, and I'm not going to make a list.
• I got through the holidays, without Colleen: Halloween (always a big one in our household), Thanksgiving, Solstice, New Year's, and I'm going to count our anniversary on this January 3rd because that's the main reason we used to have a big party around New Years.
• I wrote some tutorials for Linode: "How to Resolve Merge Conflicts in Git", "Using the Git Rebase Command", and "Use GNU Make to Automate Tasks". (There were some others but they don't seem to be on the site yet.)
• I wrote a few memoir posts, though not as many as I wanted to..
• I worked on the Going Sideways blog with Naomi. (Most of my part has been this year, of course, but some of it wasn't, including some photo shoots.)
• I didn't catch COVID-19, or anything else for that matter. I occasionally have to remind myself that that should count as doing something. Like getting vaccinated and boosted, tracking down N95 masks, and mostly staying home.
• Putting the boring statistics at the end, I wrote 107318 words in 170 posts here on Dreamwidth. Of those 170, 37 were tagged "colleen", and 61 were not the regularly scheduled "Done since", "Thankful", and "Rabbit-Rabbit" posts, so I somehow averaged more than one a week of those even though I didn't think I had. I had originally written "not nearly as many as I'd hoped to," but apparently I hit my goal for the year -- at least one/week -- without realizing it.