2025 Year in Review

Aleksandr Shitik
Aleksandr Shitik

I write my own posts and books, and review movies and books. Expert in cosmology and astronomy, IT, productivity, and planning.

Introduction

This is already the second full year in which I lived by the detailed planning method described in my book. I would call this year the year of helping parents. And here is what all my previous years were called:

  • 2015 — Year of web programming theory
  • 2016 — Year of advanced web programming theory
  • 2017 — Year of web programming practice
  • 2018 — Year of socialization
  • 2019 — Year of travel
  • 2020 — Year of reading IT books
  • 2021 — Year of buying the first apartment
  • 2022 — Year of buying a car from a dealership
  • 2023 — Year of buying the 2nd and 3rd apartments
  • 2024 — Year of “tails”
  • 2025 — Year of helping parents

This year there were 28 main goals, of which 26 were successfully completed, and 15 secondary ones, of which 14 were completed. By the way, this year, unlike last year, there were no goals that became irrelevant during the year (perhaps only the trip to the border), just as there were no new goals. Here are the results of the 2025 goals:

2025 year results

Sport

This year I had 44 runs. I ran a record 528 kilometers. And my total mileage was 1752 kilometers. To get acquainted with the running results, there is a separate article.

Food, health

Everything as before: no soda, no chips and similar junk. Zero sick days. There were not even mild colds. And here are the days in the year when I drank alcohol:

January: 1, 5, 6, 14, 17, 25
February: —
March: 8, 20, 22
April: —
May: 8, 9, 10
June: 21
July: 4
August: 2
October: 24
November: 29
December: 5

Total: 18 days. And here is the graph of “alcohol” days over recent years:

Graph of alcohol days

Games

Already a good tradition of the last 10 years: during the year I did not play any games.

Education

With education this year, as in previous years, everything was stable: podcasts, articles, books. A separate more detailed article about books came out a little earlier.

Movies and TV series

Let's start with TV series. I watched the second season of the mini-series “Wednesday”. I also selectively, in the background, with the edge of my ear and eye, watched “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Murders in...”, and far from all episodes. By the way, the series are not bad.

As for movies, below is a graph of trips to theaters and cinemas over recent years. This year there were 23 such trips. Here is how it looks by year in recent times:

Graph of trips to theaters and cinemas

List of where I went:

  1. 🔥Megalopolis
  2. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
  3. 🔥A Normal Family
  4. 🔥The Count of Monte Cristo
  5. Symphony of World Cinema: Red Chapel (theater)
  6. Firebird. Scheherazade (theater)
  7. 👍Small Things Like These
  8. 👍Mickey 17
  9. 👍Breath of the Storm
  10. 👍Mountain Bride
  11. 👍The Maldoror Case
  12. Fountain of Youth
  13. Lilo & Stitch
  14. How to Become a Millionaire
  15. F1
  16. 👍The Life of Chuck
  17. The Naked Gun
  18. At the Height of Fear
  19. Dracula
  20. 👍One Battle After Another
  21. The Thursday Murder Club
  22. Now You See Me 3
  23. 👍Method of Elimination

These films were especially good:

  • Megalopolis
  • A Normal Family
  • The Count of Monte Cristo

I would also recommend these films:

  • Small Things Like These
  • Mickey 17
  • Breath of the Storm
  • Mountain Bride
  • The Maldoror Case
  • The Life of Chuck
  • One Battle After Another
  • Method of Elimination

“A Normal Family” — this film is one of the best I have ever seen. “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “Megalopolis”, “Method of Elimination” — these are also incredibly strong pictures.

Among the films I watched on TV (and literally a week before New Year), — the film 🔥 “Heretic” (2024).

Movement

Over the past year I had only 3 taxi rides. Here is the graph of my trips over recent years.

Graph of taxi usage
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