Bit late with this but life is busy right now! I pretty much enjoyed 2021, life is good 🙂
Reading
Managed to get through 12 books – pretty happy with that even though some weren’t necessarily the best quality. Feel like I found some really good ones too.
I Started So I…Won’t Finish
Because lifes too short and there’s too many books I would enjoy reading I’m trying to stop any that I’m struggling with. Was more brutal this year than last and considering I read more books than 2020 and feel like I enjoyed more too it might be working? This year I started on:
- The Kill Artist
- Range
- Eat Like A Fish
- No Rules Rules
- Reminiscences Of A Stock Broker
- Our Man
Writing
I only published 4 blog posts. I normally post technical stuff and I think 2021 was pretty full on at Balancer with some pretty intense times. In general when it came to clocking off I didn’t have the mental energy to spend it on writing about what I’d been working on and just chilled. This year it would be cool to try and write more about what I’m doing as I’m going.
Coding
There some kind of advice/saying about joining a team of people that are better than you because they’ll push you to their level. Well, that is definitely how it feels at Balancer. Learning lots and striving to be better. I think it’s working and I feel pretty good with Typescript now. Looking forward to building out the Balancer SDK which should teach me a lot more about best practices and writing code suitable for the outside world.
Watching
34 – a big increase on last year. Must be because Gracie is a good sleeper!
Fight Club – Classic and still good. Decent last tune too.
Devil All The Time – Good story. Not very uplifting though!
Flint – like the series, disgusting and horrible
Song Bird – oh dear.
Gold – pretty decent.
Perks of being a wallflower – excellent and emotional and awesome soundtrack.
El Camino – Finally watched it. Not bad. Poor Jessie.
Graffiti Wars – Robbo Vs Banksi. Enjoyable and sad ending.
Operation Finale – Another good Nazi movie.
The Founder – bit of a rubbish start but improved and interesting story.
New Of The World – clumsy plot but I like a Western 😊
The White Tiger – I enjoyed it
Capone – wasn’t the best but interesting enough
Ninja assassin – haha wow even worse than it sounded
The sisters brothers – was enjoyable but I’m not sure if it’s the same as the book – I can’t remember!
Touch the wall – not bad. Swimming is an unrewarding sport!
First Man – really good!
Sound of metal – Excellent
Indie Game The Movie – Decent watch. Pretty emotional seeing those guys put it in!
We Live In Public – What a wild and whacky ride of a life! It’s hard to be a visionary!
Baby Teeth – good but very sad/happy
Les Miserables – Decent French crime
Black Summer – Not a movie but bloody brilliant. That last escape scene by the black guy was something else!
Wild Bill – Good movie. Lucky to be me.
Pusher – Very gritty and quite unpleasant watch!
Shotgun Stories – quite good brotherly revenge
Hard tide – Decent low budget British alternative gang stuff
Suicide Squad – first cinema trip in over a year!
Ballad Of Lefty Brown – quite slow but a watchable Western
Kate – Woody can pick some bad ones 😂
Bruised – Not bad female version of Rocky
Never give up – Alex Ferguson doc. Decent. Shows the sacrifices again!
Man of steel – long but decent. Think I’ve seen if before though?!
Don’t look up – Really good. End of world and humans are scum bags 😂
Health
Still not drinking – so that’s a positive result!
The goal was not to become a couch potatoe – I think that’s also been achieved although it’s not been easy. Found it really hard to let go of rugby but training was less appealing and my AC went twice more throughout the year so being a regular 1st team player is a fate I have accepted. One thing I’m really glad I did was play a game with Gracie and Elaine watching – especially because I got a try, biggest hit award and man of the match. I was proud!
I’ve stuck it out pretty well in the home gym. Continually progressing with the weight training. Also bought a Concept Rowing Machine and do at least one 8min session on that, progressively getting further distance most times.
Also it feels like I might finally have found a replacement – joined a BJJ course in Januaray and have really been enjoying it. We’ll see if that continues.