Quarterly 101 Things Update: September 2024

There are exactly two years left in this undertaking, as I post this right meow. This last quarter was pretty goddamned productive, and I’m really pleased with myself for getting to where I am right now. Overall, I’m feeling pretty good about the challenge, even if I’m not quite as far along as I would … Read more

Accomplishments: August 2024

August was going to be a busy month regardless of what I intended, due to a bunch of pre-scheduled stuff and the job hunt. So I decided that my plans were going to be to get those things done and done well. RMNP Vacation Oh man, this was epic and awesome and difficult and troubling … Read more

Accomplishments: July 2024

Normally, I start drafting these posts on the first of every month, but this month was a little different. Didi and I got home from our honeymoon on the 1st and we were pretty wiped out, and had some errands to run, and by the time we were done, we had no gas left in … Read more

Accomplishments: June 2024

Going into June, I didn’t expect to get a ton of shit done in my personal life projects, largely because I was going to be up to my ass in wedding preparations. I was also going to be spending the last week of the month in the Bahamas on my honeymoon, so I was probably … Read more

Accomplishments: May 2024

Coming into May, I knew that I had a lot of stuff coming up for the summer, and that I was going to be pinched for time in May (and June) of this year. So this month’s goals were to blast through a pre-set list of smaller tasks, in an attempt to at least be … Read more

Accomplishments: April 2024

Getting shit done again was the theme of the month. Magic the Scanning I don’t even know how I thought this was going to be possible, to be honest. There’s so much more to do on this that it’s not even funny. Fail. Finish the BMC Build This was supposed to be done in March, … Read more

Accomplishments: March 2024

With training for the DAMN ramping up hard in March, I needed to get my shit together and keep the giant goals more dialed-in for the month. That’s okay. The reduced time between training and tackling items for the 101 Things project both meant that I felt like I was getting things done this month … Read more

Accomplishments: February 2024

February rolled in ridiculously warm this year, and it really fucked with my sense of what had to be done when. Based on gut feeling, I decided that one of my accomplishments was going to be a large-scale cleaning of the whole damn house. Spring Cleaning We got started on this the first weekend of … Read more

Accomplishments: January 2024

January always feels like the calm before and after the storm. The chaos of the holidays is over, but the insanity of the year is going to ramp up soon. Thus, I was reluctant to plan much for January. Thus, it was a short list. AZ-104 Certification This to-do was my white whale of 2023. … Read more