Here are my goals for 2009:
Debt Repayment and Tracking
- Attack Remaining Debts -This year we’re going to continue making strides against our three remaining student loans. At a minimum, I expect to be down to just one remaining debt (aside from my mortgage) by 12/31/2009.
- Track Food Budget For Entire Year – The reasons for this are twofold: I want to understand what proportion of eating out versus cooking at home we are doing, and I also want to track the amount of savings we get from couponing and using TheGroceryGame.com. With any luck this will allow us to control our food budget better and should roll up into gains for the debt repayment goal.
Personal Health / Exercise
- Karate – I intend to get back into the dojo in a major way in 2009. Since I am unsure how often my monthly dues will entitle me to work out at the Denver dojo, I am going to set this goal at an average of the two workouts a week that I know are covered. Additional weekend workouts or at-home workouts will be icing on the cake. Expect karate tagged items to track my progress.
- Gym – During 2009, I intend to join several of my coworkers at the Louisville Recreation Center for workouts on my non-karate nights. I will define a more realistic goal for amount of working out, I suspect it will be around twice a week given my current workload and karate schedule. I hope to begin this goal sometime in January.
Recreation / Blogging
- Daily Blogging – I intend to blog on average once daily for 2009. I will track this similarly to how I did for 2008, keeping tabs on complete months, number of days blogged, and total number of blog posts.
- Guitar – I intend to practice my guitar on average three hours per week in 2009. This has been an interest of mine for quite awhile, its time that I assert myself toward practice so I improve.
- Multitouch Table – Last year I started acquiring materials for my multitouch table. The relocation prevented me from completing the table and I never executed on a final build. I want to have this one completed by 09/30/2009.
Professional / Technical Development
- Learn C# – This one’s for my job. I want to self-educate on C# and .NET 3.5, so I purchased a book, C# 3.0 Unleashed by Joe Mayo. I would like to have the entire book read with code examples complete by 02/28/2009.
- Learn Adobe Flex – This one is equal parts my job and the multitouch project. I want to learn Adobe Flex, the action plan is undetermined on this one thus far. Stay tuned and more details will surface as the year progresses.
I think that’s all of them for now!
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