Reflections on 2021

If there was a label for a year, this would be a year to forget.

It felt like 2021 was trying compete with 2020 as being the worst year.

As we bid good riddance to 2021, I recall having the same attitude towards 2020 the end of last year. So a flip of the calendar does not mean things go away, it just signifies a new chapter, and hope. So here to hoping for a better 2022.

The Bad

  • Health, was pretty bad. That is the headliner, fighting an illness, good news is we caught it early and prognosis is good. Late April was the start of a dark depressing time for me.
  • No end to Corona, it just won’t go away. I think continue till at least Q2, but this year will mark its decreasing be a significant margin.
  • Jan 6 riots, can’t believe that happened in my lifetime. Really unprecented.
  • One of the health issues was back pain due to significant weight gain.
  • Seahawks sucked this year, first time since being a Seahawks fan they were last in their division. Eliminated so early from playoffs this season.
  • Eldest son moved out in December. sad without him.
  • Longest power outage in our home.
  • Listing below that Corona virus vaccine is out as good, just wish I did Moderna or pfiser because I could the J&J and I think started cascade of problems.
  • Car accident so bad was in the news
  • Forced to get Long Term Care insurance
  • Side effects of meds, went from 315.6 in May 12 when I started meds to 350+ in a matter of a few weeks, on November 13th I hit 350.0
  • Historic heat triple digits.
  • Some RAM failed on me.
  • Inflation
  • The work year ended with a bad vulnerability.

The Good

  • Health wise at least I did not have serious bout gout this year
  • Home office has been redone, looks great.
  • Able to upgrade wifi and make home smart. Network is solid. Some new cameras up.
  • Also upgraded to 10G
  • Also upgraded HD Homerun.
  • Corona Virus vaccine out, (see bad news though)
  • Truly did get in to docker (ok podman but still containers)
  • Got a 3D printer, CNC, and generator.
  • Good both a new Hybrid CRV and ICE HRV.
  • New zoneminder server
  • New Kitchen, and work started on new bathroom.
  • Got grafana working, it is great.
  • Blood pressure normal 122/74 wow.
  • Got Pi K8 cluster running
  • Got an RTX3060
  • Had a nice trip with Family to San Juans
  • First time the only debt I had was the home (it changed since so…)
  • Started move to Rocky Linux 8 from CentOS 7

So last year I weighed in at 319.0 lets see if this year I can beat that. So here is where we end off on the weight. Let’s make it a story of recovery.

Weight: 350.6

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