Last nights New Years Eve celebration was definitely subdued. We weren’t excited as before, I tried to be, but I had 1 sick, two had to work, and a teenage boy interested in doing other stuff.
Got up at 7:15 and left at 7:45 and did the traditional photo shoot. This time did both DSLR and phone.
This time I was not alone, my son was with me.
No polar plunge this year. When we got home at about 8:15 or 8:30, I went to bed.
Technically we are still in the year of the dragon, it ends on January 29th, and I am looking forward to the year of the snake. From the Internet
I talked to my sister a bit, and I think this year, financially things gonna get better.
Another interesting thing is it was weird not getting my 10k steps. I know I needed rest, I got it. Doing some simple pushups and situps of old, but my body needs rest. After a year of steps, not doing anything hard was… uncomfortable.
I did get a bit or ESP32 stuff going. no public pics to show, more later.
The first half of the year was promising, all of my kids are adults now and my youngest graduated from high school. Proud of my youngest because he trained so hard for track and made it to districts, and that team won districts for the first time in over a decade. I think it was 2011 they last won districts.
Before I reflect, I want to note that I did accomplish my goal of 10k steps and 10 floors each day and I did not miss a single day.
Anyway lets recap.
The Bad
Son got Injured – this was the biggest tragedy, although there were some pretty close runner ups
Got hacked at work
Step dad passed away
Daughter broke up with her long time boyfriend
Got Covid
Other Daughter’s boyfriend got his vehicle stolen… twice.
Got some sore throat that may be something worse.
Wasted money on a Qotom firewall
Dog was injured in January but recovered ok
Tried to implement Omada controller, broke a lot of stuff
Seahawks eliminated from playoffs before last game
Got a case of vertigo
Power outage for multiple hours nearly three weeks in a row, but this outage prompted us to prepare by getting a trio of Power stations.
Youngest decided to go to PLU Bad in that he will be moving out and it is expensive
The Good
Kids graduated, one from High School and that same kid got an Associates
Other kid got a bachelors, three down 1 to go
Accomplished my 10k steps and 10 floors.
Got the meetups going at least for a few months, made my goal
49ers lost the Superbowl, I did not record it (my bad) but someone provided it for me and I got to see my old high school coach on TV
Got a Windows 11 Laptop, that was a goal
Got a nice trip to Hawaii
Got a Samsung S24 Ultra and Yubikeys
Youngest decided to go to PLU Good in that he made it to a 4 year college
Upgraded to Rocky 9 for most of all my EL systems (only Zoneminder not updated)
Ran a parkrun, another completed goal
Started swimming and cutting sugar, found the key to weight loss
This was a leap year and instead of Christmas landing on a Tuesday it was pushed to a Wednesday, same story next week.
Anyway was a good night, one very interesting thing, we did not take many Christmas Eve Photos.
But this is Christmas day, it was fun, opened some cool gifts. This year, I got a hard drive device I will do a review on, need a 2.5″ Sata, so awaiting that.
Also got an IoT device, a 3rd reality night light.