A bit late with the weekly update, as I travelled Serbia → Poland → Ukraine over the weekend. I paused all relevant goals for the trip, so that I am not obliged to produce some datapoints e.g. during a power outage (but luckily, we haven’t had any yet over these two days where I am staying, though some were scheduled — yay to Ukrainian energy experts). I am now treating this as an experiment: how much will I actually do of those things that I genuinely believe I ought to be doing (otherwise I wouldn’t have the goals for that) when there’s no pressure. Some goals are still running though, like everything where the road is built from code (TBR-related), and small things where only ~weekly input is necessary.
Other “news”:
- new goal zinc as my monthly goal
- finally found some good iron supplements, so I am getting back on track with iron (it was flattened for a while because I didn’t like the ones I bought and then another form as well)
- entered the annual challenge with tbr_world and tbr_pur_pages_stale goals - details by link
- since I reached the required amount on the birding goal for 2025 (over a week now), I haven’t actually logged in even a single checklist, although I could have already added data for three countries for this year, one of which I won’t likely visit again in 2026 → makes me think having this goal for the past year really tipped the scales for me in terms of whether it’s something I ‘want’ or ‘ought’ to do; or maybe I just need some rest and all will be fine