{"id":1003,"date":"2019-12-28T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2019-12-28T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:55:15","slug":"2019-a-year-in-the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"2019: A Year in the Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year has been a lot. Living in these bullshit times is fatiguing. New political insanity on the daily makes every week seem like at least a month. It’s mind boggling but all we can do is keep on living and raging against it. That said, here’s my annual celebration of living and raging on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back at my goals and my mood board for the year, I feel like I lived up to it as best I could. Although I didn’t meet some of my specific goals, like deadlifting 405 pounds (see you in 2020, 400-pound deadlift), I kept to the spirit of my goals of being resourceful, consuming less, and doing cool stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2019 Mood Board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year I started writing\/blogging regularly, which has been really cool. I’ve had this blog for about five years now but haven’t used it for much. Giving my weekly update a standard format and schedule has made it a lot easier to write. I look at it and think “well, what did I cook this week?” Instead of “fuck what have I done this week.” With that in mind, allow me to address the question of, “what the fuck have I done this year” with something familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consuming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some things I read, media I enjoyed, and stuff I bought this year. I won’t talk much about reading here because my next post will be my annual Books of the Year list. My stated goal for the year was to read at least 52 books. As of this writing, I’m over 70, which is awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n