Solstice Recap

Looking back and seeing if I accomplished anything within my goals over the three hundred-sixty odd days just passed.  Looks like I've done a lot.

• I'm a bit more than a year into the 52 month debt management program, which means roughly a quarter of the debt I had when the rug was yanked out from under me is paid down.
• I am still not missing a desktop PC, nor am I missing a hard wired internet connection, I've had a 3g wireless modem for two years now.
• I have a solid extended camping/disaster preparedness kit assembled which contains one temporary and one sustainable method to recharge a smartphone.
• I have unloaded about two thirds of my total possessions through yard sales, gifting and freecycling.  Of what is left I plan to unload two thirds over the next year: books, gaming materials, tools, my Harley and most likely the Suburban.  The volume depends heavily on the living situation  which depends on whether work recognizes my value.
• I have attempted to get back into the dating scene.   One meetup through mutual friends which exploded spectacularly three hundred-fifty-seven days ago, one meetup from an internet matching site which never progressed beyond "coffee dates", one hookup from getting pounced at an SCA event which became a massive letdown after a few months of exclusive dating.  I have profiles on Geek2Geek, Fitness Singles, Plenty of Fish, and HerWay.  None of which have gotten so much as a nibble.  I will be revamping all of them and reevaluating around Memorial Day.
• I have finally dug out all my archive CDRs, parsed them all together on the hard drive, and gotten all the MP3s plugged into iTunes.  Some of these files were originally on 5.25" floppies, backed up from my original IBM clone (Tandy) 486DX2/50.  Nothing from my Apple programming days nor Linux nor C++ have made it to today.
• I don't buy paper books when they are available from Google Books
• I don't buy batteries anymore, I use NiMH cells almost exclusively.  I have a scale which uses a 9V which will be replaced by one that uses AAA's when the battery and the spare I have expire.
• All of my plastic water bottles have been replaced with stainless bottles (discontinued items from Gander Mountain), my heavy ceramic mugs have been replaced with type 5 polypro insulated tumblers (GSI Outdoors).
• I have two recycled PET plastic grocery bags (ThinkGeek) and they see regular use.
• I have started using Open Office and migrating documents created in proprietary formats.
• Starting yesterday I am donating CPU time to BOINC projects, currently I am processing data for SETI, MilkyWay, and Einstein.  I also signed up for the Large Hadron Collider and uFluids but there are no data packets currently available.  I last ran data for SETI when I had the Linux platform, the data being processed today is the data that got first pass analysis back then.
• I use paperless grocery lists (android widget), workout logs (smartphone app and Blog), to-do lists (TaskSmash.com) and internet banking with e-statements.
• To prevent paper clutter I immediately shred receipts, bills, statements, mail and anything else the shredder will safely handle as soon as they are identified and recorded as appropriate.