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