Snowflake Challenge #8

[ratcreature]

Challenge #8: In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

Well, this is depressing. I didn't accomplish anything beyond survival in 2021. Even my book reading declined by more than half compared to 2020, to 72 from 150 books. I guess that I managed to stick with posting my reading in the Wednesday Reading Meme for a while was something? Before my reading fell off a cliff that is.

I baked a lot of Christmas cookies that I gave as gifts throughout December?

And not that getting Linux to work on my new laptop went particularly well, but I am proud that I managed to get both Adobe Digital Editions and Kindle to run under Linux on my new laptop via various different layers of windows emulation and several days of tinkering (because they would not both work with just one kind), and I wrangled a kernel update outside the distribution update cycle to get my wireless network controller to work. Standby/sleep is still borked though.

Comments

[ratcreature]

Well, survival is one of these "necessary but not sufficient" conditions for posts in the first place though (well, unless you set up autoposting, I guess).

I mean, I take your point that managing to make it through another year is a win in itself, and more so right now considering how many more than usual didn't, but it's still kind of the implied baseline of meme participation.