{"id":268,"date":"2013-01-27T19:42:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T03:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2013-01-27T19:42:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T03:42:45","slug":"2012-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/268","title":{"rendered":"2012 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the fact that it&#8217;s taken me 27 days into the new year to write something about the previous year says something about my diligence. It&#8217;s just hard to create content, you know? Well, maybe I&#8217;ve just gotten lazier, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what happened in 2012:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wrote 48 blog posts (down from 132 in 2011).<\/li>\n<li>Wrote 16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/fiction\">short stories<\/a> (down from 21 in 2011).<\/li>\n<li>Read 15 books (up from 2 in 2011). Favorites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393328627\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0393328627&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=evillemur-20\"><em>The History of Love<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679728759\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0679728759&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=evillemur-20\"><em>Blood Meridian<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0547735022\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0547735022&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=evillemur-20\"><em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/em><\/a>. Least favorites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400033411\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1400033411&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=evillemur-20\"><em>Beloved<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811210804\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0811210804&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=evillemur-20\"><em>Indian Nocturne<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Took 3716 pictures that I kept on my computer (down from 3803 in 2011).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/baking\">Baked<\/a> at least 56 items (up from 53 in 2011).<\/li>\n<li>Made at least 27 different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/mixology\">cocktails<\/a> (down from 77 in 2011). I seem to have stopped making cocktails in the middle of the year, since I started to drink wine more. For health reasons, of course.<\/li>\n<li>Made $236 playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/poker\">poker<\/a> (which totally doesn&#8217;t make up for the $560 I lost in 2011, but 2012 included a particularly bad run at Tahoe where I lost $500 in a series of bad beats).<\/li>\n<li>Lost $454 through other forms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/gambling\">gambling<\/a> (which is significantly worse than the $10 loss in 2011, which means I should really give up on gambling probably).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there was also all the non-blog-related stuff, like going on vacation, more food indulgences that I didn&#8217;t post here, making new friends, spending time with friends, starting the long search for a house, and so forth. Well, I hope 2013 will be even better! I always say that. But I think it usually does come true somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the fact that it&#8217;s taken me 27 days into the new year to write something about the previous year says something about my diligence. It&#8217;s just hard to create content, you know? 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