New Year's 2023
The great thing about doing my resolutions on LiveJournal, I don't have to read too far back to find last year's.
2022 saw at least one more gun but still no range trips. (I got another Rossi R92, but in .357 magnum). Washington is planning some ridiculous new anti-gun laws, which is why the interest in lever guns and ridiculously large revolvers (Haven't been able to get the one I have my eye on yet though).
Not much progress on dealing with my comics, but I have been catching up on some series. (Got a stack of 60 issues of Saga that I'm finally getting to). But nothing about the den. Which I'd like to deal with and move the printers into so I can have a Dining Room table again.
Financially I have been God-like. Expenses to income is so low I have been banking about 32K a year. So I predict that by the end of 2023 I will be back at my pre-mortgage-payoff level. I will splurge a little on myself and get a couple of big Bush desks and set them up in the Living Room. I got a nice office chair and mat a few days ago, but working from a old school desktop perched on a TV tray table is kinda lame, and I've been doing that for years.
Weight. I have spent most of the year stuck in the low to mid 240's, but lately I've been able to get into the upper 230's. The low point over the Christmas break was 235.6, although the introduction of my birthday cake into the mix has me at 237.6 this New Year's morning.
On the down side, my BP has been soaring lately. And I'm not sure what the current state is, but my health insurance and the Everett Clinic have gone to war and they might be out of the network this year.
I also started Invisalign back in April, and the main series is already completed. Last month we did a re-scan and there will be a second set for final positioning. The process is pretty cool, since instead of taking impressions they use Photogrammetry. A tooth-brush like camera is run all over your teeth and the computer turns all of the images into a detailed 3D model.
I've been learning a lot with FreeCad, and the biggest (literally, it filled the print volume of the Ender 3) and latest project of mine was a whole-house humidifier that fits over a 5 gallon bucket. I put the final touches on the first version just before Christmas, and the sucker puts a good 3 gallons of water into the air a day. The house has gone from sub 20% humidity to 38-40% since I started running it (except the master bedroom for some reason.). It's not ready to release, but I wanna put some more run time on it before I tweak it too much more.
I wonder where all that water goes....
Writing: I haven't been overly productive, but I have sold a story to LawDog for the last volume of the Malta anthologies. (Well, Sold in that the contract should be forthcoming soon.) This would be the first Dr. Mauser story to see actual print rather than being on DeviantArt. I was toying around with a third CASPer History story for the 4HU but I've heard nothing about any additional anthologies coming out.
My Wordpress blog has been severely neglected. I need to address that.
2022 saw at least one more gun but still no range trips. (I got another Rossi R92, but in .357 magnum). Washington is planning some ridiculous new anti-gun laws, which is why the interest in lever guns and ridiculously large revolvers (Haven't been able to get the one I have my eye on yet though).
Not much progress on dealing with my comics, but I have been catching up on some series. (Got a stack of 60 issues of Saga that I'm finally getting to). But nothing about the den. Which I'd like to deal with and move the printers into so I can have a Dining Room table again.
Financially I have been God-like. Expenses to income is so low I have been banking about 32K a year. So I predict that by the end of 2023 I will be back at my pre-mortgage-payoff level. I will splurge a little on myself and get a couple of big Bush desks and set them up in the Living Room. I got a nice office chair and mat a few days ago, but working from a old school desktop perched on a TV tray table is kinda lame, and I've been doing that for years.
Weight. I have spent most of the year stuck in the low to mid 240's, but lately I've been able to get into the upper 230's. The low point over the Christmas break was 235.6, although the introduction of my birthday cake into the mix has me at 237.6 this New Year's morning.
On the down side, my BP has been soaring lately. And I'm not sure what the current state is, but my health insurance and the Everett Clinic have gone to war and they might be out of the network this year.
I also started Invisalign back in April, and the main series is already completed. Last month we did a re-scan and there will be a second set for final positioning. The process is pretty cool, since instead of taking impressions they use Photogrammetry. A tooth-brush like camera is run all over your teeth and the computer turns all of the images into a detailed 3D model.
I've been learning a lot with FreeCad, and the biggest (literally, it filled the print volume of the Ender 3) and latest project of mine was a whole-house humidifier that fits over a 5 gallon bucket. I put the final touches on the first version just before Christmas, and the sucker puts a good 3 gallons of water into the air a day. The house has gone from sub 20% humidity to 38-40% since I started running it (except the master bedroom for some reason.). It's not ready to release, but I wanna put some more run time on it before I tweak it too much more.
I wonder where all that water goes....
Writing: I haven't been overly productive, but I have sold a story to LawDog for the last volume of the Malta anthologies. (Well, Sold in that the contract should be forthcoming soon.) This would be the first Dr. Mauser story to see actual print rather than being on DeviantArt. I was toying around with a third CASPer History story for the 4HU but I've heard nothing about any additional anthologies coming out.
My Wordpress blog has been severely neglected. I need to address that.