2013 Goals
Read 2 items in Latin
Cicero's letters (Shackleton-Bailey)
read 25 new books
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave, by Simon Goldhill
volunteer 50 hours in the local community
write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)
write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories
brew beer for people
get regulator hose and propane tank for new burner
clean and oxidize kettle
acquire Sanke kegging equipment
clean kegs for use (with industrial cleaner)
brew a cream ale in the party keg for Bill
brew 30 gallons of wedding ale for Matt & Maggie
10 gallons of Persephone
20 gallons of Steve's Extra Special
Goals for 2012
write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories
- Status: draft of 1 short story, fragments of many others
read 25 new books
Captain's Fury, Jim Butcher
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Princeps' Fury, Jim Butcher
First Lord's Fury, Jim Butcher
Rubicon, Tom Holland
Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton
brew 12 distinct styles of beer on my stove
English Special/Best Bitter (Danstar Windsor) [Status: drunk]
Gluten-free Sorghum (Danstar Nottingham) [Status: drunk]
American IPA (reusing Nottingham) [Status: drunk]
Hefeweizen (Danstar Munich) [Status: drunk]
Dunkelweizen (reusing Munich) [Status: drunk]
"Session" Saison (T-58) [Status: drunk]
Hard Root Beer Brown Ale (Windsor) [Status: drinking]
Russian Imperial Stout (US-05) [Status: bottle conditioning]
Belgian Pale Ale (T-58) [Status: bottle conditioning]
Smokey Amber Ale (Windsor) [Status: bulk conditioning]
"Sriracha" Pepper Porter (Windsor)
Belgian Winter Warmer (T-58)
find paying work in the teaching/tutoring field
- Status: teaching Latin at Middle Creek High School!!
volunteer 50 hours in the local community
- Status: nil
write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)
- Status: 9 letters written. Correspondences begun with Rob (2), Tim (2), Vanessa (2), Yi, Anderson, Kathy