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Goals for 2009

I set a couple of New Year’s Resolutions last year, which I didn’t get around to posting here. One of them was to write 52 tracks, which I finished. I slipped on a few others.

So, I’m going to post my goals for 2009 in three categories: personal development, music, and fitness. You ready? Let’s dance.

Personal Development

1. Get my passport stamped.
2. Draft an education plan.
3. Reduce my personal effects by 90%.
4. Build a useless, but awesome, web project.
5. Brush up my Spanish and French.
6. Learn Ruby on Rails and nail down object-oriented PHP.
7. Learn to blog and build an audience.
8. Make more friends and be more social.
9. Save up $10,000.

Music

1. Turn my 26 Stubs into completed tracks.
2. Draft a practice plan for flute, clarinet, piano, and composition.
3. Learn to play the guitar I bought in 1994.
4. Build a more comprehensive sample library.
5. Revive the Digeum podcast and continue posting Digeum Mix Sessions.
6. Commit to writing 12 articles for Osteocephalic.
7. Learn the ins and outs of Live, Reason, Logic, Traktor, ReCycle, and other software in my stable, including getting them to work in collaboration.
8. Build a portable sound booth
9. Learn to mix my tracks down so they sound really great.

Fitness

1. Acquire a CrossFit Level 1 Certification.
2. Buy a barbell and bumper plates.
3. Achieve an 80% or greater completion rate for CrossFit workouts of the day.
4. Lower my body fat percentage to below 10%.
5. Return to the kayak.
6. Build a reliable pullup bar in my garage (so I can do WODs on rainy days or without hauling a kettlebell and dumbbells to the park every time).
7. Move the Personal Bests on pbwiki here.
8. Get strong enough to successfully snatch and clean the 24 kg kettlebell and perform muscle ups.
9. Set new personal bests in the benchmark WODs, specifically (current PRs in brackets):
   • APFT: 300 [257]
   • 2 mi run: 13:30 [14:32]
   • 5 km run: 20:00 [24:17]
   • 10 km run: 50:00 [56:47]
   • Angie – 30:00 [49:20]
   • Annie – 20:00 [13:15 – scaled]
   • Barbara – 45:00 [63:27]
   • Cindy – 15 rounds [10 rounds]
   • Diane, RX – 30:00 [15:29 – scaled]
   • Elizabeth, RX – 30:00 [09:22 – scaled]
   • Fran, RX – 10:00 [12:26 – scaled]
   • Helen – 10:00 [15:30]
   • Mary – 5 rounds
   • Nancy – 15:00 [30:09 – scaled]
   • Michael, RX – 15:00 [25:35]
   • Murph – 50:00 [62:33]
   • Randy, RX – 15:00 [12:44 – scaled]
   • Filthy Fifty – 25:00 [33:12]
   • Fight Gone Bad – 350 pts [237 pts]
   • Evil Dozen – 30:00 [36:30 – scaled]
   • Nasty Girls – 20:00 [28:01 – scaled]

All this stuff should give me plenty of scrambling to do this year. What are your 2009 goals?

You have a gargage!? I’m quite jealous. If I had a garage I’d have built a pull-up bar ages ago and probably be completing many more WODs. Sigh. We should get together and talk about this idea I have for a small scale Crossfit gym.