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Here we go again. Let's post 'em and hold ourselves to account. I'll start:

Run a 5k

Read 6 books

Break up with South Austin's mom. (It's time)

What you got?

Drink less vodka. Sticking with bourbon.

Take my dad on more fishing trips.

Learn to surf.

Watch TEXAS baseball.

5 national park trips

Hike 100+ miles

Complete the Surly 10k push up challenge

Read 12 books

Retire.

get my knee replacement done.

Drink less or stop altogether.

Drop about fifteen lbs.

Appreciate all the things I have and stop worrying about the ones I don’t.

Stay off the football boards on gameday .

Go to at least one Texas home baseball, softball, football, and volleyball game.

Celebrate my birthday on top of Guadalupe Peak.

Update the kitchen.

Build a covered, dedicated area for my smoker and wood.

Spend more time and money helping others.

Contribute more time to making political changes happen.

Stay retired.

Finish settling my dad's estate.

Read at least 24 books.

actual goals -

1) Longevity - strength/cardio.

  • Bike 2561 miles (the distance from my house to the santa monica pier),

  • do 1000 pushups, figure out if I want to do the pullups/squats section of the Surly Challenge (thread in can you help me) or whatever else I might be into

2) marriage and mental health -

  • do some therapy. i've been not doing therapy since forever and my wife would like it if I did and I could use it and I want to so I should

  • do some work with the wife, she's been sick we have little kids it's been tough. I need to set a better goal here - maybe a date night twice a month or something.

3) hobby -

  • learn how to do colorwork in knitting, make at least one super fun sweater for my daughter

  • find some local people to play music with

  • do some stuff with my old band (another show is booked in march, I'm hoping to come down and play, we're talking about writing again).

    • write some music - this is hopefully in conjunction with my old band

4) money

  • get healthier on a monthly basis, hold on until kid 1 is in public school this fall

Complete my first screenplay

Keep up the cardio/workouts from 2025

Find a remote sales position

Get a little more in touch with my spiritual side

Do more for others

1 hour ago, bschoolprof said:

be more positive about UT football.

That should be surly’s Resolution as a whole.

Stick with surly health challenge.

Take more PTO and just do stuff

Hike more

I gotta stop the fucking cussin at work.

Wow I read that entirely too quickly…..

That would be at reunions.

Get a new surfboard and get some use out of it.

Have the miracle of miracles happen and catch an Ulua from shore. This would require me to not take naps while I fish so this will be a difficult one.

Read 50+ books and have at least 30 or more of them not be class related reading.

20 minutes of flexibility work 3 times a week.

Visit a country I haven’t been to before.

Finish a short story idea I had from a recent trip.

Turn/develop that story into a narrative game or multimedia animation/video.

Start a yoga practice, I really need to improve my flexibility.

Oh yeah, I want to master baking really good baguettes.

Edited by YChang

I don’t really do resolutions but around Thanksgiving I do a review of the year and goal setting which is usually a continuation of the year with some tweaks.

I’m in pretty good shape - keep it up lose 10 lbs.

Start playing competitive tennis again - I only do drills and practice.

Stay up on all my healthcare visits - shingles vax, covid vax, cancer screenings, etc.

Stay with my stretching / massage therapies and continue recent chiro therapy to ensure my spine is healthy as I age. It’s fixable but starting to show some wear and tear. Basically next level up.

Get a home sauna this year. Use it 3x a week.

start a 3 year transition to a more sustainable work set up for long term pre/semi retirement.

Fish more, camp more (motorhome style).

Travel more.

Fuck more.

Golf more - previously 2x a year already played 5 times since week of Thanksgiving

Drink less (already down to 4-6 drinks a week max, no more than 2 days in a row).

Continue learning how to manage stock / value investing.

Pay off child support early (not the best pure financial decision but fuck I’m done with it).

Get one son into college.

Figure out a rite of passage to share with said college bound son this year.

Continue volunteer service but start thinking about something a bit more hands on and gritty, board service and donations are great but I want more tangible moments.

Post on surly more.

Edited by scramblyn

1 hour ago, Kennythetiger said:

Like what?

Lane Kiffin hot yoga with suburban MILFs

Exercise more - need to fight aging
Read more - I've been actively "reading" audio books, but I want to read real books
Drink more - gotta make life more worth living, I basically quit when my wife was in cancer treatment, she is NED and clear to drink (moderately, at most)
Eat heathier - closer to a plant based diet
Volunteer - hospital, school, or senior/assisted living center
Travel more - already spending July in Europe, but I also want to see more of the USA (and the 51st state ... aka Canada)
Quit worrying about politics, money, disaster prep - so basically stop listening to my wife

oh yeah and that 2 chicks thing

Travel more.

I love travel, but have not been doing it as much the past couple of years. I’ve developed an artificial anxiety about taking too much time away from work, which is stupid. My wife keeps saying that a hefty retirement account won’t mean anything if one or both of us aren’t around, or healthy enough, to use it on travel. Even if it’s not a week in some far off destination halfway around the globe, I need to work in more long weekends about once a quarter, and realize the years ahead of me are not given.

Not really a resolution, but wife and I are doing dry January. I'm doing it not only for my own health, but to support her. She's an everyday drinker, while I'm a weekender type, I imagine it's going to be a little tougher for her

I've been going to the gym regularly (3x a week) for a year, so I'll be interested to see any changes over the next month. Will probably start going everyday...or at least adding a day a week.

Starting weight, as of just now...199.8

6 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

Read more - I've been actively "reading" audio books, but I want to read real books

Drink more - gotta make life more worth living, I basically quit when my wife was in cancer treatment, she is NED and clear to drink (moderately, at most)

There's a debate on the Surl somewhere over whether audible books count as reading or not. I love reading, and I would also like to read more, but I consume audible books like crack. They're just so convenient, I can pop it on as I get ready in the morning, during my drive to work, while I walk the dog etc etc... Just so convenient. The only time I can think of when I would choose kindle over audible is falling asleep at night. It's a hard nut to crack

Also, drinking more???

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1 hour ago, Tylerocks said:

Not really a resolution, but wife and I are doing dry January. I'm doing it not only for my own health, but to support her. She's an everyday drinker, while I'm a weekender type, I imagine it's going to be a little tougher for her

I've been going to the gym regularly (3x a week) for a year, so I'll be interested to see any changes over the next month. Will probably start going everyday...or at least adding a day a week.

Starting weight, as of just now...199.8

I did my first dry january after being a daily drinker for decades a few years before covid. It was hard as fuck. I think it was 2017 or 2018. It took three and a half weeks to feel positive effects but WOW they were great. The first week wasn't so hard but I was so bored. Second and third week were tough and boring, but after the 3rd week the world started opening back up, I was happy, my sleep was good, the sunsets were more spectacular, the sex was better, food tasted great, things smelled better. I've never had a drink every day of the week for months on end ever again and often after each dry January I'd start at 2-3 drinks a week tops before finishing the year drinking often with the holidays. Now though i'm consistently down to 4-6 drinks per week max and rarely back to back days so I don't feel the need to do a dry January any more. I ended up on a journey to pretty much peak physical health at the age of 50. It all started with a dry January almost 10 years ago. That first year after that first dry january was incredible for me, I learned a bunch of hobbies including fly fishing, scuba diving and sailing during that time, it was at the end of that first year that I really started to understand how narrow your life can get especially as you age if you live for that 5 o'clock drink. I'll never be in that place again, there's just too much life to live to allow alcohol to narrow my focus and my desires.

my advice is line up some replacement things to do for when you are both a little bored - cooking class, pickleball, walk around the hood, go on a hike, check out a state park. get out in nature. otherwise that first month can be monotonous.

props to her and to you, feel free to share this with her, it's 100% worth the effort but that first time takes some real effort.

Edited by scramblyn

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