Impossible List - 15 April

How far I've come over the course of the last month in regards to the impossible list of goals I've set for myself.

I have a list of things that I work on outside of my impossible list and I'm starting to think that I might need to revise my impossible list to show my general activity and what it is working towards rather than the larger goals that generally require money rather than an accumulation of experience.

Professional

Still focused fully on getting fit and writing my book. So nothing exciting to report for projects or the like. However, in passing I made a dumb little website because I wanted to try out using GitHub pages: https://matthew-davis.github.io/insults/

Health / Fitness

I've been ill for some time now, nothing lethal, just a general sense of aches, pains and headaches. So much so that I went to the doctor. We couldn't find a root cause in blood work or checkup so we're taking a month off of statins to see if that has any effect. It didn't, next step is to get a Cat scan of my head. Here's hoping that if I have something at the very least it will be cool.

Exercise and diet is just bumping along, but today is the first day of my marathon training. More to come on that.

My aim is to end this year pretty far down on the weight scale and higher up on the fitness scale in preparation to climb a big mountain in 2025.

Personal Skills

I'm on chapter 38 of 40 re-writing and giving a base level of story. I want to take this and print off a manuscript before I go to Italy in May so that I can spend time reading and going through my first proper development edit.

Flickr still has 667 photos in it.

Travel / Events

So two bigger trips this year, One to Lake Como and the other to Copenhagen. We've changed up some of our smaller trips, I think I'll climb the English Furths on my own and Louise and I might take a we jaunt to Bath to attend the annual BIEN Congress because we're nerds.

We've been floating an idea to go to America for Thanksgiving in 2025 and preparing for the cost will mean spreading out some trips, it is looking like we might need spread out the trips so that we have time to save for them.

Volunteering / Charity

Starting to really address the issues behind the business of Tayside Re-Users. We'll see where that goes. Currently we need to address all of the folk who have resigend and their replacements.

Education / Languages

I've continued with my DuoLingo work. Hopefully in the next 12 months I can get through and complete Russian. I might be good at that point to jump back into a Russian class. I'll look again at this come September.

Financial

Just working hard in my role as React Tech Lead and trying to sort out my shop and put everything into a good status.