Happy New Year!
General impressions
- Last week was my last week spent with friends in Illinois, so preparing to go back to Europe. The trip was supposed to take between Monday and Wednesday this week (which is already long enough) - I expected to be at home by moment I am writing this, but here I am, stranded in Chicago, waiting for a rebooked flight. The single goal that wasn’t put on a flat spot for this trip (or had enough buffer by itself) derailed yesterday, because I was running around the airport instead of working on the goal on the plane.
Derailments
- focused_work_early - details in the yearly challenge thread
New goals
- birding_2025 - started this new goal on Jan 1, as it will be easier to keep track of the number of checklists in eBird like that. The idea is to post checklists with observations more regularly, instead of just intensive bouts on vacations to “exotic” places. Tried different ways to automate it, but none worked. (Apparently, they are not making available personal stats through API, just for the locations and species, and scraping is prevented by a sign-in wall.)
Completed goals
- none this week
Changes to goals
- focused_work_early was upped to 35/day since the New Year.