I don’t make New Year resolutions – why set myself up for failure? \u00a0Instead I think it’s more positive to review what I’ve accomplished in the previous year, and it serves as encouragement to do more in the coming year without having to specify what in advance.<\/p>\n
1)<\/strong> The most personally important thing I did in 2012 was to get my wisdom teeth removed – all four of them. \u00a0They were impossible to clean and had been poisoning me and thwarting progress towards fixing my dental situation. \u00a0This was a big step for me, because when I was a teenager a dentist told me my lower wisdom teeth were impacted and I would have to go for jaw surgery to get them removed. \u00a0He described it as having my jaw broken on both sides and then having my mouth wired shut for a couple of months while it healed. \u00a0For some reason that put me off dentists for a while. \u00a0More than ten years, in fact. \u00a0Finally I couldn’t ignore the problem any longer so I went for more opinions. \u00a0It turned out they were no longer impacted as badly and could be pulled without surgery. \u00a0I had it done under IV sedation (because I’m a severe gagger) in March. \u00a0It was miraculous – my only experience of the operation was a strange dream, and there was no swelling or any other complication afterwards. \u00a0I’m so glad that part is over with.<\/p>\n 2)<\/strong> I took my first overseas trip this year, visiting Hawaii<\/a> for a week, getting a grand tour of the Big Island from my friend Phloem<\/a>, and watching the rare transit of Venus<\/a> from up on Mauna Kea. \u00a0On the way back I visited San Francisco<\/a>, also\u00a0for the first time. \u00a0My trip included several other firsts: Swimming in the ocean, snorkelling, visiting a volcano, banyan trees,\u00a0malasadas<\/a>\u00a0and burritos<\/a>.<\/p>\n 3)<\/strong> I took an online design course to gain some breadth, and designed a built a piece of furniture<\/a> for myself. \u00a0While it may not seem remarkable in itself, it was an accomplishment for me because I’ve never done anything significant with wood and woodworking tools before, and it turned out better than I had hoped. \u00a0I’m proud of both the design and the construction of this artifact.<\/p>\n 4)<\/strong> Finally, I continued to make incremental progress in my ongoing life cleanup process. \u00a0I digitized some more of my film (now up to 60\/250 rolls done), eliminated a dozen boxes of old computer hardware and other junk from storage, grabbed a bunch of my vanity domain names (except my dot-name, which is blocked by an illegal registration) and started putting together a new personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m happy to have accomplished stuff this year, and look forward to doing more in future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t make New Year resolutions – why set myself up for failure? \u00a0Instead I think it’s more positive to review what I’ve accomplished in the previous year, and it serves as encouragement to do more in the coming year without having to specify what in advance. 1) The most personally important thing I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-thefuture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}