Here are my goals for 2013. A lot of the same things as last year, but hopefully I’ll get further along with them.

  • C Programming
    I spent some time last year, but need to be more systematic in the coming year. The number one goal is to understand the use of pointers better. Once I have that down, I think I’ll be able to move on to looking to write a device driver.
  • Finish the kitchen
    This will take some time, though nearly not as long as the things I’ve done previously. The holdup on starting is that I want to have at least $10,000 saved up before I start. This will take me a while. In the meantime, I’m not doing anything in the kitchen because I am using it now that I’m living here again.
  • Take an overnight bike trip
    No camping, but a trip of maybe 100-200 miles or so, where I can ride and stay at motels for a day or two.
  • Electronics
    I want to finish working through the eagle tutorials. Then design a board to use with my map game. I’d like to actually finish building the map game too.
  • Book
    I’d like to write up an ebook about using a linux server to replace a windows domain. I’ve done it and I think it would be helpful to have all the information in a single place.
  • Bicycling
    I did a pretty good job of consistently jogging last year. I think I should mix things up and switch sports a little. So I may make a bigger effort to ride my bike more this year.
  • Ruby
    Convert a bunch of my scripts that are currently in perl to ruby to help me continue to get better at ruby.
  • Computational Geometry
    I’ve been getting interested in math again and recently found out about computational geometry. This seems to be pretty common in computer graphics, which I’ve been interested in. My math is very rusty, so I’m probably going to have to do a lot of review work before I get back into this, but I think it would be really helpful.

I’m keeping the list a little short this year, so that I can try to stay more focused.