OT: Your accomplishments in 2013 and plans for 2014

I thought we'd enjoy a bit of reminiscing of the past year and talk about our plans for the future, whether it's something personal or D-related that anyone is willing to publicly talk about. It should be a fun topic, or so I hope! :) So let me begin..

Generally this has been an awesome year for me. This year I've become a part of the D core team, which is not something I even planned for, but I'm really grateful it happened. It's an awesome team to be in!

Another thing that happened, is that after many years promising myself that "this year" was going to be the one where I get in shape and live a healthy life, it turns out that 2013 was that year! I've lost 20 Kg (44 lbs) this year and now my BMI is in the normal range at around 22.4 BMI. It was 28.4 BMI at 95 KG (209 lbs) at the start of the year. It wasn't just frequent exercise that helped me lose weight. I started eating healthy food, and now spinach, kale, beets, and other vegetables are a permanent part of my diet. I wouldn't dream of saying this last year, but steamed veggies are absolutely delicious!!

As for my future plans, I'm hoping to land myself a nice programming-related job next year. I've never had a programming job, most of the paid work I ever did was physical work, such as drilling through bricks, rock, concrete, installing and repairing air conditioners, installing central heating systems, lighting and electrical work, and stuff like that.

I also want to and plan to study algorithms this year. Whenever some algorithm-related discussion popped up in the newsgroups I would typically avoid giving any input as most of the conversation would go over my head. But I'm gonna bite down and study hard, I really want to "grok" it.

Ok, so who's next who wants to share?

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 19:45:25 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > Ok, so who's next who wants to share? Got accepted on the D team! Yeah! I was in a pretty bad Bicycle vs Car accident, but 6 months in, I managed to recover most of my physical abilities. Also, it didn't stop me from getting my pregnant! Yeah! My first mini-geek is due in June :D Objectives for 2014 will simply be to survive that :/

On 11/12/13 21:44, monarch_dodra wrote: > On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 20:43:22 UTC, monarch_dodra > wrote: >> Also, it didn't >> stop me from getting my pregnant! Yeah! > > Wife. Got my *wife* pregnant. Good thing you followed up with that, I was about to reply, is there something you haven't been telling me? :-P

Andrej Mitrovic: > [...] > steamed veggies are absolutely delicious!! I am glad to read all this. And yes, good vegetables are very good food. I also suggest raw fennel, raw carrots, raw celery stalks, raw cucumber, steamed broccoli (and related: brassica oleracea var capitata rubyball, purple cauliflower, romanesco broccoli, curled cabbage, lacinato kale, both steamed and in soups with some breads and carrot pieces, zucchine (cucurbita pepo)), eggplants, plus several fruits as pomegranate, etc. :-) Bye, bearophile

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 19:45:25 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > As for my future plans, I'm hoping to land myself a nice > programming-related job next year. I hear facebook and sociomantic are hiring ;)

On 11/12/13 22:00, bearophile wrote: > I am glad to read all this. And yes, good vegetables are very good food. I also > suggest raw fennel, raw carrots, raw celery stalks, raw cucumber, steamed > broccoli (and related: brassica oleracea var capitata rubyball, purple > cauliflower, romanesco broccoli, curled cabbage, lacinato kale, both steamed and > in soups with some breads and carrot pieces, zucchine (cucurbita pepo)), > eggplants, plus several fruits as pomegranate, etc. :-) Take sliced fennel, sliced celery, partially-crushed walnuts, mix together, grate flakes of parmesan over the top, and finally drizzle over with a really good olive oil. (Optionally also drizzle over with lemon juice, freshly squeezed.) One delicious salad is yours. :-)

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 20:43:22 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote: > On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 19:45:25 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic > wrote: >> Ok, so who's next who wants to share? > > Got accepted on the D team! Yeah! > > I was in a pretty bad Bicycle vs Car accident, but 6 months in, I > managed to recover most of my physical abilities. Also, it didn't > stop me from getting my pregnant! Yeah! > > My first mini-geek is due in June :D > > Objectives for 2014 will simply be to survive that :/ Congrats. My biggest achievement in 2013: We got our second mini-geek in August.

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