{"id":421,"date":"2011-01-01T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-01-01T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T01:07:48","slug":"what-a-year-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2011\/01\/01\/what-a-year-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"What a year, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roller coaster which was 2010 has come to a close. It was pretty awesome. I got married, Micky is pregnant. I changed jobs (still at TokBox though). I&#8217;m ready for 2011. I&#8217;m going to become a father, and I&#8217;m also pretty psyched about the new doors that have opened in front of me. With all of that said, here&#8217;s an overview of how successful I was in 2010 as measured by completing my resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>5\/10<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Lose 25 pounds by June 1st<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>This didn&#8217;t happen unfortunately. I had, by August 15th, lost the weight, but between Ramadan and then not playing soccer I gained it all back and more. Fortunately, as I write this post, I&#8217;m down below 200 pounds, but getting back to 185 is going to take a dedicated effort.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Play a round of golf in the 80s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Skip. This was one part ridiculous, one part awesome. Awesome because I found a new sport that I love, and I&#8217;m learning to appreciate it more and more. Ridiculous because thinking I could get that good that fast is just disrespectful to the game. This year though I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ll get my handicap below maximum.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase my personal savings by one-third<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>I did pull this off, but almost exclusively through the stock market and my retirement accounts. It was a pretty awesome wedding and honeymoon, but it sure didn&#8217;t help with this resolution.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish the initial BFBP product<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>I just launched <a title=\"Melih's Dive Log | AboutMyDive.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutmydive.com\/melih\" target=\"_blank\">about my dive<\/a> which is the first product I&#8217;ve done under the BFBP banner. Look for more in 2011!<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog five times per month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maybe didn&#8217;t pull this off every month, but I think the spirit of the resolution was achieved. In the process, I really learned a lot about WordPress, writing and communicating my thoughts. I&#8217;ll continue in this vein further this year, but I&#8217;ll tell you how in my 2011 resolutions post.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit one new country, and three new places<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fiji was the new country. The three new places were London (I&#8217;d never visited it properly before), Asheville (again, I&#8217;d never visited Asheville properly before, just driven through it) and Guerneville. I&#8217;ll keep this resolution in 2011, but it&#8217;s going to be a bit harder with the baby coming down the pipe.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Run a half-marathon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Epic fail on this point. This is something Micky and I were going to do together, but I feel like we both failed magically on this point. However, we did run a team marathon back in April. Micky took a bit of a break in the middle of her leg, but otherwise we had a great time, and both had very successful runs.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn to Tango<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just didn&#8217;t happen. There just wasn&#8217;t time. I&#8217;ll probably punt on this guy this year as I think soccer, golf and diving are going to be my sports of choice.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Support Micky in helping her stop biting her nails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m so close on this one that I&#8217;m going to give it to myself. Micky is much better about it than she was a year ago, and she&#8217;s really close to kicking it completely.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Support Micky in helping her finish her sailing qualifications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nope, failed at this one too. Micky passed her junior navigator, but it was in a horrible weather weekend. It was the weekend that the Chilean earthquake led to a tsunami warning across the entire Pacific Rim. After that wedding planning got in the way of Micky being able to take a weekend off and do her navigator, much less her captaining course.<\/p>\n<p>And so I got a 50% clip rate. It isn&#8217;t good by any stretch of the imagination, but given all of the other things that happened this year I&#8217;d say not bad either.<\/p>\n<p>Onward to 2011!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roller coaster which was 2010 has come to a close. It was pretty awesome. I got married, Micky is pregnant. I changed jobs (still at TokBox though). I&#8217;m ready for 2011. I&#8217;m going to become a father, and I&#8217;m also pretty psyched about the new doors that have opened in front of me. 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