I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.

Since nobody gives a fuck about my true amazing feats, I’ll brag about something more relatable: I did my laundry a few times this year. Major achievement if you know me.

Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.

When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.

Was a unique achievement for me.

Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It’s been transformational. This year, I made time for the ‘good’ car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I’m at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It’s a good feeling.

I dispersed (free) camped around my country for the whole year

I drove 150 miles at highspeed on a highway at night through a thunderstorm during a nervous breakdown. That was just the return drive home.

Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it’s running like a champ again.

After weeks of debugging and a million things tried, finally fixed a bug that ended up being an off-by-one error. Had to turn < into <=. Debugging embedded devices can be hard…

edit: the chaos caused by the error was of course completely unrelated to the process, caused a full watchdog timeout

Bought an apartment with a mortgage with support of the state (they paid the half of a price) for my family. Not the greatest, but the cheapest out there, so there’s many caveats, but we’re finally home 🏠

I finally read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Won’t necessarily go over well on Lemmy but still want to brag a bit. My company got bought by salesforce, life changing for my kids’ kids (let alone me and my wife). Had a meeting this week with Marx Benioff and he said “I dont care about that i want to hear that v_krishna thinks” and then spent 15 minutes on the spot answering his questions.

Got in the top 3% for average weekly steps for someone in my age group (40-49)

I’ve found a giant chicken of the woods polypore on an oak while hiking with three cats. A week later the oak broke apart and was blocking the street for me on my bike.

Ripped a 20 second long fart in bed a month or two ago.