My kiddo and I are having a fruit and vegetable challenge. Each month we’ll seek out a fruit or vegetable we’ve never tried and taste it. My BFF is trying to walk all the greenways in our county (that is county not country, low stakes! Attainabl!). How about you?
YES.
(Say this out loud)
There’s an app for that.
I can get behind this one.
I’ve started painting 10-15 minutes every day and I want to keep that up. I fell off reading nonfiction so I’m planning to start that again.
eat more slowly. i dont chew my food enough and it makes my tummy hurt!
I’m planning to walk 1000 km in 2024. Nowhere fancy, just around my neighborhood.
That’s just around 2.74km (rounded up) per day. So around 30 minutes of walking per day. Are you sure you’re not doing more than that already?
American workers have a lot of struggle getting walking in as their jobs don’t require hardly any. Walk to car, drive to work to park in garage and walk a few hundred feet to elevator, from elevator a few hundred feet to desk, repeat that trip home, make dinner, go to bed, repeat the next day. It’s even worse for remote workers as they walk from a bed to a desk at most, many remote people I know work from their bed (I could never…)
Ah… Sadly no. That’s why is my low stakes resolution. :) I work from home and I’ve gotten very lazy. I just roll from my bedroom to the office, down to the kitchen, and repeat.
Drive less and ride my bike more.
Try Dragonfruit.
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Is it? My local grocery store in small town America has whole dragonfruit in the produce aisle and includes it in their overpriced mixed fruit tubs.
I’ll add it to the list! Kiddo is 4 so we’re probably just going to go to the Korean market and see what catches their interest
Oh you are going to be disappointed.
My son and I got an Ender 3 Pro 3D printer for Christmas from a family friend who scored one from a print farm for cheap. She also gave us upgrades and we’ve been learning how to print. Already successfully printed a calibration cube and master sword. We have a bunch of functional prints we want to tackle so it’s been a fun learning experience for both of us.
So what’s your resolution?
Learning how to create better 3D prints and printing functional objects.
Definitely a worthy pursuit!
What would a high stakes resolution be?
Quit pooping
One step ahead of ya
To make some sort of major change or take a specific big picture path. The classic “stop smoking/drinking” would be high stakes resolutions.
Finally plan and perhaps execute my suicide. High stakes.
I hope you’re ok and getting help if you need it.
Not really either of these unfortunately.
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I rarely keep my New Year’s resolutions.
For a more serious answer: Quit smoking. Quit drinking. Meet more with one’s child if they are far away. Eat less. Stop gambling. Stuff like this.
I know someone who plans on listening to a new album every day.
Be determined to prove that mole people exist and have underground cities all over the world.
Damn! I was going to say something that would make you feel bad if you don’t accomplish it but the mole people situation sounds important
I don’t make new years resolutions myself, but I just had to say your profile pic gave me a little giggle, thanks
(also really like the new veg of the month idea!)Mine is really just getting back into working out. I kept trying to go too hard after my shoulder surgery and kept pulling muscles (not in my shoulder), so I’ve taken like an 8 month break to let my body heal. This time I’m starting with my goal being 30 reps with perfect form at 5lb and going from there.
It sucks losing a bunch of muscle mass that you busted your ass to get, but luckily it’s easier to regain it than to grow it the first time.
That sounds serious and high-stakes.
On that note, my resolution is spending more time socializing with people. It’s getting too drafty in here.
Get hammered that night. Will once again win my low-stakes game.
Get hammered
I guess that’s one way to get low stakes
I won again!
Two honestly. They’re both kinda big picture, but both are fun and easy and low stakes.
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Slow down, settle, nest. 2023 was a wild year filled with change. I got a job that became the focal point of my life, and then I got promoted. That job came with more friends and connections than I’ve ever had. It has been a very full, sometimes overwhelming year. 2024 is going to be my Convenience Store Woman year. I’m gonna settle into my management position, get good at it, and turn this dispensary into a beautiful weed distribution machine.
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I’m gonna keep trying for a second romantic partner. It’s gonna be fun because flirting is fun. And the stakes are low because I already have a fantastic, stable relationship with my wife. Failure means continuing the happy life I’m living now. I’ll just keep trying to get the attention of boys with good hair.
2024 is gonna be good, but easier than 2023 plz
Wow! I hope you accomplish all you want to! Although, I’d expect every year going forward to be harder than the last tbh. So I hope that your struggle in 2023 brought you resilience for the struggle to come in 2024
That’s silly. I’m in a really good place personally. My best friend is my assistant manager. I just signed the lease early for another year (starting in May) in my nice apartment that is just a few blocks from my dispensary. We could reasonably be a million dollar a month location by this time next year. I’ve found a Discord where I can make friends with other trans people in my area despite my powerful introversion. And just being a visible trans person in a popular business running a safe place in a conservative area is fighting the good fight! I have integrated the resistance into my life. I have the financial stability to take care of some real life shit that’s in arrears. And despite isolated examples of the opposite, the fact is that people are overall safer, healthier, and freer than they have ever been. I say that as someone who has been attacked in public for being trans. 2024 is going to be good. It’s just going to be extra good for me.
Great to hear
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Stop referring to myself as old…
“Man, I sure am ancient.”
Decrepit, withered, timeworn, we got synonyms for days
For weeks and months even
I prefer relic, thank you very much.
Pick up walking again.
Switch to Firefox.
Save some money.
Let’s hope it sticks. Let’s hope your pick up walking sticks. Sticks can help. Walking sticks with walking sticks.
I’m sorry
Install Debian Mint on my old laptop and see how much I can get working on it. My ultimate ambition is to replace all my Windows 10 activity entirely by the end of 2024
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Took me some years (but man has Mint become better!).
I even have a little windows box for “all that stuff not working on Linux”, scanner went over, big printer too, about everything except keepass(I have the 1.0 version so it’s just lazyness) and, uh, photoshop but I’m working on it.
Totally worth it (for me), good luck!
I installed Debian in a dual boot in November and there’s only one game I haven’t got working yet. Everything else for work and fun has either worked or I’ve found a substitute.
Doing the same but with Fedora on my old desktop. I’ve been messing around with Linux for some time now but this is the first time I’ve tried to put a serious attempt into setting up a development environment and move to Linux for gaming.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get the games working. Now if I can just figure out how to get vortex or MO2 to work to mod Bethesda games I’ll be happy.
