2026 Goals

A post about delicable delicous desires to be done in 2026.

Goals

• Monthly updates of goal progression
• In depth Quarterly Evaluations

Art

• Write 2 blog posts a week -> Evaluate on Friday if close to completion, plan Sunday for next week’s articles
• Update blog gallery every week -> On Friday sanitize images to release on Sunday
• Write Book Reviews -> On Monday create a list of books, skeleton posts, on Friday (or when finished start reviews)
• Write Movie Reviews -> Write review of old movies after watching.
• Sew wearable and high quality cloths from wool and linen -> Create general plan/timelines, produce piece every week
• Cook at amateur level -> (I don’t particularly care much about this one, but suppose it is good to have)
• Paint at amateur level -> Delayed until April
• Gain a good knowledge of classical music -> Listen to various pieces and build playlist every day
• Attend 1 Opera -> Look at operas in Norway
• Begin learning a new Artistic Skill -> Start in Winter of 2026
• Gain high level of knowledge on Greek culture and history -> 10 books by April
• Gain high level of knowledge on Roman culture and history -> 10 books by April
• Have high level of knowledge on Faust -> Marlow and Goethe
• Read/Listen to Nibelungenlied -> Complete by April
• Have understanding of Poetic Edda -> Start in April?
• Read/Listen and have understanding of all of Shakespeares works -> Multiple pieces by April
• Start learning Medival History -> Delay until Fall
• Write more poetry -> 2 pieces a month? I can easily compose when inspired, but should read more poets
• Become more skilled at writing -> Blog for now, re-examine in April
• Speak more elequently -> Do not use words “like”, “pretty”, “honestly”, re-evaluate in April
• Research learning to read German, Greek, Latin -> Delayed until Fall
• Research generating audiobooks with AI -> Check every month, currently not financially feasable

Antiques

• Create a local web application to track and monitor interesting antiques
• Acquire 1 item made from Bone, Ebony, Tortioseshell -> Acquire 1 of these by April
• Acquire 1 Moorish (or Syrian) item and 1 Anglo Indian item -> Acquire 1 of these by July
• Acquire 1 Multicolored Lezgian star and 1 solid color Lezgian star rug -> Acquire 1 of these by July
• Gain high level of knowledge of antiques -> research and read 1 book by April
• Research acquiring ancient European tabistry -> Have some knowledge by April

Software

• Become very skilled at creating operators and understanding kubernetes -> run 1 kubernetes cluster and operator by April
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• Become skilled and integrate AI usuage into personal software workflow
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• Create a full node of bitcoin in Rust and Python -> Finish most of project by April
• Research feastibility of rewriting Monero in Rust -> start research in April
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• Create a full node of Decred in Rust -> Start project by April
• Write advanced Python and Golang code -> Improve skills further
• Improve knowledge of Rust and JavaScript -> Get more practice with languages
• Improve knowledge of DevOps, CloudFlare, Cloud Providers, CI/CD -> Just get more practice
• Attend Fossdem in Brussels
• Attend KubeCon in Salt Lake City

Personal

• Daily stretching for shoulder injury -> research if i can every heal it (change up current regime)
• 30 min weightlifting on weekdays
• Walk everyday, run when it gets warmer
• Watch old movies
• Start squash and pickleball -> Begin in April?
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• Research apartment, rentals, and housing in area
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• Ski trip in Norway
• Road trip to North East -> research in January to complete in Spring
• Road trip in France ? -> would like to have a summer trip
• Stretch: Trip in Northwest -> possibly do in Fall or with KubeCon
• Plan and execute a fun Christmas
• Plan and execute a fun New Year
• Maintain good relationships
• Buy flowers on consistent basis -> look at farmers market
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• Stretch: plan and do something for Walpurgis Night