# New Year's Resolutions: Ride or Die 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [December 30, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-years-resolutions-ride-or-die-2024/11324 "2023-12-30T19:20:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 69
**Author:** ![scarabaea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/scarabaea/32/5475_2.png) [@scarabaea](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/scarabaea)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-years-resolutions-ride-or-die-2024/11324/69 "2024-07-05T14:18:21Z")
A monthly update on my work-on-my-postdoc-earlier-in-the-day goal. During June, I used two weeks out of the (4 weeks total) “summer vacation” that I had allotted myself when I initially declared this goal. Spent them road-tripping Serbia with my husband. Fun fact, I nearly derailed on the day after the vacation. I had no buffer, and since the goal is tagtime-pings-based… well, it was one of those days when pings seemed to simply refuse to come! Also had some errands in the morning, so couldn’t really use the best rewarded-per-ping hours of the day that day. I spent over 6 hours working that day just to get out of the red. while normally it should be around 4 on average. (Of course, of course, it all evens out across days… that’s the fun of having it tagtime-based, right?) But, out of desperation, I had to count the ping that came during dinner… because I literally caught myself in the process of wording some sentences for the draft I was working on that day when the ping came, while chewing! (Normally, I wouldn’t bother to count that - I usually silence the pings unless I am working on the project and waiting for pings.) Aside from that, the goal has been running pretty well. Content-wise, too. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-years-resolutions-ride-or-die-2024/11324)._