Normally, I am a complainian extraordinaire, but I think at the end of the year, I should take a look back and see what was good lately and how I improved. And because events in 2012 and 2013 are intermingled, I’ll be checking both years.

So, what happened?

I am more in shape right now than I have ever been in my life. In January 2012 I’ve gotten a bike and by now I did roughly 6700km on it, give or take a few. I spent a lot of time on maintaining and improving it but that looks like a hobby that will stick. About the first sport that I haven’t been bored with pretty soon. So far, so good! In 2013 I managed to do two times 1000km per month, for 2014 I hope to do this a couple times more. The problem now is, that most interesting routes that can be done in an afternoon and/or day are gotten quite boring. With the increased usage of the bike also came maintenance. Sometimes I think I spent more hours fixing up the bike than riding it and by now I nearly completely dis- and reassembled the bike. Fun times.

Programming-wise I tried a lot of new languages. With my friends, I tackled the 7 languages in 7 weeks book. Also did some free software contributions. Could be more, sure, but oftentimes I contribute to stuff that I don’t particularly care about, since when it boils down I need like a shell, a terminal emulator and a browser and that’s all.

Any changes in personality? I am not sure. I think I am still exactly the same person that I was two years ago. Or five. Time did seem to stop.

(Gosh, that took long to write. I started on the 23rd of december and now look at it, 21st of February and I finished.)