What are you proud of this year? I don’t wanna hear i ran 3 marathons.
I want to hear the crazy awards stuff like…I drove the same road 438 times and exclusively listened to Fleetwood Mac.
Common share your special skill or unique achievement this year.
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I stand my ground as the communist against a lot of people, without reading theory (im lazy, and standing ground doesn’t always mean i won, but i still anoy libs and fascists)
Adopted my kitty…
Picked up kickboxing and lost 30lbs
After many years of trying and failing, I finally convinced my friends to try a TTRPG (Dungeons & Dragons). This is my first time ever playing a TTRPG as it is for most of my friends. We are having an absolute blast. The general consensus is that we should have started doing this years ago (which I always pipe in with a “yeah, that’s why I first brought it up in like 2021”)
Managed to make two cats tolerate each other - one is keen on chasing, one is shy and coward. They are bad at signalling play - so sometimes they go too rough, but now they coexist mostly in peace.
I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.
Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.
When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.
Was a unique achievement for me.
That’s amazing! How did you get him out? Drop a loop around or for him to bite onto?
The pup was initially fully stuck, head first in the horizontal pipe at bottom. Coaxed it to turn around head-up, with some gentle words and tapping the top of the pipe.
It would not bite onto a strap covered in wet catfood. One person with the skinniest arms reached down and grabbed him out.
We had a pole-and-loop snare en route but didn’t use it.
Good result.
Aw making me cry here. That’s really nice
It was a bit tense on arrival, but had a happy ending. This was a week ago.
Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It’s been transformational. This year, I made time for the ‘good’ car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I’m at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It’s a good feeling.
Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it’s running like a champ again.
I have a monitor that recently died. I ought to give it a go to see if I can fix it.
A couple years ago I grabbed a 55" LG tv from a curb dump. Owner said the screen would flash briefly, then turn off. Found out that’s typical when one of the backlight LEDs dies (resistance is screwed up). Got all new LED backlight strips for the price of a decent dinner and spent an afternoon switching them out. It’s been our primary TV since and I’m stupid proud about keeping it from the landfill. 100% recommend repairing stuff like this.
Since nobody gives a fuck about my true amazing feats, I’ll brag about something more relatable: I did my laundry a few times this year. Major achievement if you know me.
Bought an apartment with a mortgage with support of the state (they paid the half of a price) for my family. Not the greatest, but the cheapest out there, so there’s many caveats, but we’re finally home 🏠
that’s not low key at all. living the dream.
Please take another pic in 3030 miles
and 13419 miles.
That’s also pretty. Two times the admiration.
Thanks! I do try to make really pretty photography! Here’s my latest project, if you wanted more:
After weeks of debugging and a million things tried, finally fixed a bug that ended up being an off-by-one error. Had to turn < into <=. Debugging embedded devices can be hard…
edit: the chaos caused by the error was of course completely unrelated to the process, caused a full watchdog timeout
If you also named a project, you solved both hard problems.
I dispersed (free) camped around my country for the whole year
All 360 days? ThTs pretty cool. ESP if it’s out of choice.
I drove 150 miles at highspeed on a highway at night through a thunderstorm during a nervous breakdown. That was just the return drive home.
Did you survive?
Nope. This is my spirit telling the story.
