2014 Resolutions

[Paelos]

Can be gaming, can be life, what it can't be is getting in shape because it's obvious at this point.

Mine is to spend more on gaming in 2014. I was very tight on purchases this year because I didn't really like much, but with the new computer, it's time to expand.

[Signe]

I'm tired of people saying "what?" to me all the time so I resolve not to ramble on and on and on until I lose my train of thought and become twitchy and confused and end up sounding like a bloody mental patient what has no gorm. 

[Strazos]

Going to make an attempt to actually get up in the morning and go exercise before work, at least a few times a week. Gained a bunch of weight when I got back from Benin and now I'm at my heaviest, so some of my pants are a noticeably tight fit. Went and bought jeans yesterday and had to up the waist size for the first time...ever.

[MahrinSkel]

Welcome to middle-age, good luck in your battle against entropy.  I'm resolving not to act my age.

--Dave

[JWIV]

Finish painting this house.
Do something with the arduino gear I've picked up from various kickstarters.
Paint at least more than one Bones mini before my Bones 2 shipment arrives.

[Phildo]

I'm resolving not to act my age.

Funny, I'm resolving to do the opposite.  Some of the time.

[Engels]

Resolved not to set unreasonable goals that will only deepen personal disspointment in self.

[Stormwaltz]

Game less, read more. Seriously.

I used to read a hundred books a year. These days I'm lucky to finish one.

[Sky]

I'm resolving not to act my age.

Funny, I'm resolving to do the opposite.  Some of the time.

I'm with Phildo on this one (mostly). I embrace aging gracefully and living each phase of your life appropriately. This is why my 20s were such a wonderful mess.

But I still ride the shopping cart in the parking lot. Fun, it's faster and it brings a smile to people to see a guy in a suit doing it.

And with Storm, game less. Paint more. I did game a lot less in 2013 and painted a lot more, won a couple contests, so going good on that front. Everyone here with minis I want to see submitting things this year!

Hike more.
Work on my basement now that it's dry.
Win a Sophie (though my chance is very slim!).
Improve my painting in general.
Record my damned CD finally.

[Ghambit]

Shit, there are too many resolutions in my case this year since last year I completely flipped my life upside-down.  For me, becoming dangerous enough in systems engineering to do some entrepreneurial damage is my main goal; but godammit, it's hard and my mind isnt what it was in my 20's... which leads to my next resolution, which is to focus much more on mind-body-soul rejuvenation.  I'm full of useful info. to maximize the cortex, but I have yet to use it; this needs to change.

I'm with Mahrin.  I've been called a big kid most of my life.  Kids love me (I'm the fav. uncle).  Most people think I'm still in my early 20's.  Physically and creatively I am.  My resolution in this case is to tell the stinkface (women and those married-people typically) asstards that insist I "grow up" to go fuck themselves.

Appropriate segue: Gaming-wise my resolution is to pwn the hell out of Wildstar when it releases.  Originally I was going to re-establish my guild, but that's non-realistic.  Just will have to find a good one, ideally bringing the old-hats from vanilla-WoW back into the fray (I miss those guys/gals).

Other things; I need to learn to freehand draw, spend more time w/CAD, become a pythonista, design a boardgame, start another business, fix my dad's business, engage in a good bachelor's degree program, and populate my lab with more equipment.   

[Chimpy]

Not as much resolutions as specific goals for things I want to do in the coming year (yes, I know that is what resolutions are to most people but these are things I decided I wanted to do a while back):

Pay off my Credit Card debt.
Run a 10k.
Bike a century.

[Paelos]

I want to make it through a tax season without neglecting all my relationships.
Also I want to decide in 2014 if this is going to be my career for the next five years.

[sickrubik]

I have two. The second rather depends on the first.

1. Find a career I actually care about.
2. Get married.

[lamaros]

Be more pro-active.

[Hawkbit]

Hike more and simplify/condense emails.  Maybe finish my degree, but that might be for 2015.

[Nebu]

Sticking with 1680 x 1050 until I can get a better graphics card. 

[ghost]

I resolve to:

1.  Drink no booze
2.  Eat a very low carb diet
3.  Get to 175 pounds
4.  Read to the kids every night a kids book, not the typical Hobbit type book I read them for night time
5.  Limit computer/internet to 30 minutes per day

Addendum-  6.  To fuck with Paelos as much as humanly possible about Mark Richt

[Kail]

Finish degree, get a stable enough job to be able to afford a more permanent place to live.  Try to do more drawing.  Exercise more.  Try to learn to cook more than just spaghetti and rice.

Gaming wise, I hope I'll finally be able to replace this laptop, but financially, who knows.  Getting an XBox style controller would be good, too, for those games that require it.  I keep meaning to do a radicalthon or walkthrough or review series or something but I never get around to it, so maybe I'll finally move on that.

[Rasix]

Do stuff.
Avoid death.

[Ironwood]

Yeah.  Possibly blunts and bitches also.

[Nebu]

I resolve to:

5.  Limit computer/internet to 30 minutes per day

WUT? 

[Rasix]

I might play some soccer.  I don't have any cleats, though.

[Miasma]

I'm going to try and be more mindful and less cynical.

[Selby]

I'm going to try and be less of a crank this year, people being stupid has gotten me to the point where I blow up and yell more than I should.

Find a job that challenges me and gives me something to look forward to (we'll see...)

Losing weight is obviously a given, but mine is more endocrine related now and I've just got to make major changes and stop screwing up my knee\back to keep my regimen going so I wouldn't call it a resolution.

As far as gaming goes... I haven't really liked anything that has come out in a long time so I'm afraid my days of playing games are over besides my nostalgia trips I take periodically.

[schild]

1. Get a job.
2. Get out of debt.
3. Actually do both of the above.

[Sjofn]

1. Enter a kendo tournament.
2. Not get overly upset when I am eliminated from said tournament in under two minutes.

[Bann]

Retrieve the Orb of Zot.

*edit*

Well shit, after 5ish years of playing, it finally happened. Gargoyles totally OP.

[Lantyssa]

1) Ask this girl I've had my eye on out
2) Play it cool regardless of answer

[Merusk]

1)  Replace this house with an even better one that has one or two minor projects for me to dink around with.  (We close on this one on the 15th, move in to an apt. on the 8th)

2) Establish a paint/ hobby area in said new house for the minis sitting in my closet.

3) Get back to the gym.  Career transition and the insane workload of the prior position made that hell this year. I'm breathing heavy going up 2 flights of stairs again.

4) Compute less, read/ hobby more.

5) Continue to work on learning guitar.  Maybe take a pro lesson on top of the self-teaching stuff.

[ghost]

I resolve to:

5.  Limit computer/internet to 30 minutes per day

WUT? 

Going to have to, if I'm going back into residency as planned. 

[Tannhauser]

1.  Get laid more often.
2.  Lose weight and exercise more in a slow careful way.
3.  Be more tolerant of my Tea Party co-workers. 
4.  Say 'No' more often.
5.  Rent my house out so I can move back to civilization.  Tired of hearing cows make sweet midnight love.

[Venkman]

Ski. I dropped 90lbs to my ideal weight (first time in 20 years) and still discovering what it's like to be physically active again. Skiing is next on my how-far-can-I-push-this-shit list.

Martial Arts. Comes after skiing. Something I've never lived anywhere long enough to get serious about and there's a great dojo with multiple styles being taught that I literally pass to and from work. No more excuses.

Get my grass to grow. I suck at it. For all the landscaping equipment I've inherited from folks and inlaws downsizing, I owe it to them toi not pay someone else to do it for me. I need to learn this shit.

I have two. The second rather depends on the first.

1. Find a career I actually care about.
2. Get married.

Protip: don't corrolate those. Your spouse is someone who's gonna be through all your careers ideally, picking up the slack when you're between, providing your inspiration during, and evolving alongside you when you change them. You can (and I personally think should) have multiple careers in your life. Multiple spouses though, that gets expensive 

[Lantyssa]

I think the dependency is mainly about money, location, and timing the wedding.  He's been engaged for like ever.

[Ironwood]

2. Get married.

Do not do this.  It is Folly.

[Ingmar]

He's effectively married already, just not officially married. It should probably say "2. Finally pay for a wedding".