I’m Going to Resolve to Do Some Things in 2019 as Arbitrary Calendar Milestones Really Rev My Engines
I know how stupid New Year’s Resolutions are. I know. There’s probably a hundred studies (and a hundred thousand snarky tweets) proving just that. Heck, I’d even believe that making a New Year’s Resolution actually decreases your chances or accomplishing a goal.
But I’m here anyway. Now, these aren’t necessarily things I’m claiming will happen in 2019. This is more of an aspirational list. A list of “priorities,” if you will (“priorities” in scare quotes because all of these come after my marriage/family/kids/household/etc.)
So, in ascending order of their importance to me, and therefore ending with the priorities I plan on dedicating the most free time to (free time? Wtf is that?!) here are my Sort-of Resolutions for 2019:
1. Collect more Minor League Baseball team caps
Yeah it’s a little silly. But there are so many great Minor League team names and logos out there. One of my favorite caps is my Hillsboro Hops cap. I live nowhere near Hillsboro, OR and I’m not even a fan of the big league club the Single-A Hops feed into (the Arizona Diamondbacks, FYI), but the logo is great.
Hoping to get some great gear from the Albuquerque Isotopes, Toledo MudHens, and Durham Bulls, among others.
2. Read one book a month
I know, like everyone does this and I’m sure almost no one follows through. I’m not going to put any restrictions on content or genre, fiction or non-fiction. I will do the vast majority of reading on my Kindle just because that’s easiest for me.
Going to start in January with Sam Sykes’ “The City Stained Red.”
3. Listen to enough new music that I can name a “favorite” new release album for each month of the year
I went into detail on this over on twitter so I’ll just include that here:
4. Learn R
I have several projects in mind this year that could use a healthy dose of stats work and data analysis and such. And the R Programming Language is the modern way to do that. So I’m going to get on board.
5. Re-Launch Henry & Laffite Mercantile
Heather and I took basically the whole year off from doing anything with H&L and I want to get it back up and running.
It never actually closed or anything, and we did sell a handful of shirts in 2018, but a literal handful. I have some new ideas for shirt designs, and I think if we fire back up H&L’s Instagram community we might even be able to move some product. We’ll see.
6. Ride the Peloton in my living room
It was expensive and it’s just sitting there. My goal is to ride 2x per week.
7. Launch two things. Any two things
This one is big for me. I have a few apps out in the wild — most notably The No Whine Timeline and Totals Tracker — that require upkeep. But I want to launch two new apps to the general public in 2019.
I’m not sure which two. I have a backlog of ideas and I just need to focus enough to execute on one of them between now and June, and one from June to December. I think I can do it. I hope I can do it. I fear I won’t do it.
Fingers crossed.
8. Ditch Facebook
The most important thing to me on this list is also guaranteed to happen. The process is already underway and I will permanently delete my account by the end of the week. Done and done.
Well that’s it. I suppose I will be able to refer back to this list in twelve months’ time and reflect on what happened and what didn’t.
What are y’all resolving to try to maybe do in the new year?
