Introduction
The end of December 🎄. It's the perfect time to summarize the results ✔️ of the outgoing year, and since I am a techie to the core, I documented many goals and metrics 🖊️.
Let's start with the goals for the year. I had 5 main goals and 3 secondary ones. I can’t disclose them, so I'll just number them.
✅ Goal 1 – achieved 100%
✅ Goal 2 – achieved 100%
✅ Goal 3 – achieved 100%
✅ Goal 4 – achieved 100%
✅ Goal 5 – achieved 95%
✅ Secondary Goal 1 – achieved 100%
👌 Secondary Goal 2 – not measurable
👌 Secondary Goal 3 – not measurable
The year was marked by many significant and interesting events. I purchased my first own apartment 🏠. I had an unforgettable mini‑trip ✈️ to Novosibirsk and Altai, where I saw my colleagues for the first time in 4 years, who have long become more than just colleagues. Over the course of 2021, 14 new posts were published on my blog 🌐, including this one.
In addition to my goals, I kept track of some events in my life throughout the year. Here are some of them that can be shared.
Sports
I had 28 runs 🏃, with a total distance of 323 km 🚏. Over the past 3½ years, the total distance has amounted to 969 km. You can read more about my runs this year in a separate article, which also includes a bunch of interesting graphs. As embarrassing as it is, I only played 4 football matches ⚽, which is pitifully low.
Food, Health
Throughout the entire past year, I didn’t take a single pill 💊. I also didn’t eat a single packet of chips or instant noodles 🥡. I didn’t drink a single liter of cola, Fanta, Sprite, or any other soda 🥤. I consumed about 49 liters of juice 🍵. I drank alcohol for 18 days in the year 🍷. No, not consecutively. I also gained just over 2.5 kilograms of weight.
Games
I don’t play computer games at all 🙅♂️, nor do I play mobile games. One of the few games I have installed is Sudoku, which I played 31 times over the year and won all 31 games 🎮.
Education
It’s probably impossible to accurately count how many episodes of various podcasts I’ve listened to, how many videos I’ve re‑watched, and how many articles and posts I’ve read. However, one thing that can be counted is books. In 2021, I read 30 books 📚. You can find more details about the books in a separate article.
Movies and Series
Following the iconic IMDb Top 250 films, I also tackled the Kinopoisk Top 250 🎦. There is a separate detailed article about that as well. I intentionally don’t watch series as a way to kill personal time and pass the evenings. However, to better grasp the English language and understand spoken speech, I regularly watch them. Typically, these are series with one season of up to 10 episodes. Here’s a list of what I’ve watched or at least started watching. The ratings are quite straightforward: green – liked the series, yellow – not bad, red – didn’t like it.
Travel
The only thing that could be effectively counted is taxi rides 🚕, of which I had 25 over the year.
