I did NaNoWriMo this year, and pumped out 50K words on the HR guide. I’m going to do some more writing over the holidays and hoping to launch in early 2022. That’s good progress, albeit much later in the year than I originally hoped.

I also hoped to do some other fiction writing, but I didn’t make a lot of progress on that…a few chapters here and there. I’m happy with the overall increase for the websites, and bumped up my number of reviews overall. Not as many as I hoped, partly as they are far too detailed in their present form. I need to find some shorter formats for the new year. I did, however, do a fair amount of planning in the year.

In 2021, I would say the primary focus for learning was fitness-related, and thus already counted.

In terms of general learning, I did nothing on crafts, nothing more on the Great Courses, and only minimal on writing tutorials.

For astronomy, I learned a lot, but I would say that was more in dribs and drabs rather than an organized approach to anything. I have large plans for 2022, and I got “organized” in 2021, but I would say the biggest event was the one that didn’t happen — I gave up on getting an observatory.

For photography, I made even less progress. I barely even took any photos all year.

Overall, not much in the area of accomplishments.

In 2021, I didn’t make a huge amount of progress with cooking. We did a bit with the Raddish cooking sets, at least early on, but I got away from them. Almost all of the items on the list were bumped to next year.

For family, we started off better than we finished. We did some Lego early on, and had bigger plans to do more. We also enjoyed some escape room puzzles, and I thought some Kiwi crates for STEM would be fun. Almost all of them died on the planning table. We are spending a lot of time at night just doing our own thing.

On the overall home front, we made some good progress on desk / work areas. My area is going well, generally, and we got a new desk set up for Jacob. We’re close to a good arrangement for astronomy equipment in the garage, ordered some new furniture for the rest of the house, and I’m hoping by the end of the calendar year, we’ll be able to tick some big boxes on the to-do list still.