Goals

I've heard that we tend to underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years and overestimate what we can accomplish in one year. I try to compensate by setting modest, concrete "year goals," which seems to be working so far. This is my page for making note of and tracking those.

2026

Brainstorming possible goals:

• Finish the kintsugi repair work. (done!)
• Get the food bot back up. (done!)
• Make some fun summer plans for the kiddo. (done!)
• Finish clothes patching.
• Release at least one new album. (done!)
• Finish the MIDI mixer, the shift register module, and the Rings-based module. (not happening...)
• Make a new coffee jar.
• Join a makerspace? (not this year...)
• Organize the house again. (ongoing)
• Photo backups and sharing on the Debian router.

These all seem do-able, if I apply myself. Luck permitting, I'll find myself making new stretch goals before the end, as I did last year.

Speaking of which, I completely forgot about my stretch goals after I made them last year, so I'll be carrying those forward into the new year. Leaving them low-priority for now, though.

Additional goal: get back on Gemini, look into getting on Gopher.

2025

As of 2025-05-22, I consider my original goal for the year, getting food bot to its "simplest form," to be satisfied. I am successfully using it to plan my meals on some days, though the user experience is still rough enough that I still don't use it most days.

Food bot stretch goals for the year are:

• "Gaming out" meal plans by interactive analysis.
• Saving produced meal plans and using them to find pre-generated plans fitting a given nutrient target set, recipe set, recipes, and servings. (Allow a "unique recipes returned" summary to facilitate exploration of the solution space.)
• Tracking nutrition.