My Whatever File

  • Get really good at the hard games

    • Bridge
    • Go
    • Poker

  • Read Fiction

    • All that sci-fi that your: Verner Vinge, Iain Banks, Michael Moorcock
    • Tackle the Baroque Cycle again
    • Even fun stuff like Agatha Christie mysteries

  • Read Non-Fiction

    • History: Napoleon, Rome, Byzantium, ancient India
    • Science: Nuclear energy
    • Biography: Marie Curie
    • Business: Hard Things

  • Actually write an iOS app. Maybe even a watch app now that I have one.

  • Automate my home

    • Get metrics from everything that can be measured, like my car (Automatic), my NAS, etc.
    • Redo my whole home media setup with something like Plex
    • Build a whole new personal email stack

  • Redo my site and resume as modern beautiful web content. Stick to static pages, but try to do even more client-side.

  • Play with arbitrary technology with no specific goal in mind

    • Raspberry Pi

  • Pick up some bigger features on Midas

  • Get good at leisure

    • Play video games -- I'm only 25% of the way through Skyrim, and I'm sure there's better stuff than that
    • Watch a ton of baseball -- if only I was still in Boston