{"id":367,"date":"2016-01-31T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2016-01-31T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T05:17:11","slug":"2015-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/367","title":{"rendered":"2015 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have once again managed to wait a whole month before recapping the previous year. My energy levels and concentration have dropped considerably. Probably something to improve in 2016&#8230; though who knows if it&#8217;ll happen??<\/p>\n<p>What happened in 2015:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wrote 9 blog posts (down 36% from 14 in 2014). I managed to write less than one post per month, which is quite sad.<\/li>\n<li>Wrote 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/fiction\">short story<\/a> (down 88% from 8 in 2014). Now that&#8217;s really bad, I only managed to write one little story in a whole year!<\/li>\n<li>Read 21 books (down 45% from 38 in 2014). Favorites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1476746583\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1476746583&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rysbl08-20&#038;linkId=LG6VNH5BQGHOMZZM\"><em>All the Light We Cannot See<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375725784\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0375725784&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rysbl08-20&#038;linkId=ICMSRYTYF3LZ5HFS\"><em>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812983580\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0812983580&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rysbl08-20&#038;linkId=KBTA6HCF2YC6OOGJ\"><em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &#038; Klay<\/em><\/a>. Least favorites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553418025\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0553418025&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rysbl08-20&#038;linkId=MXPC4PMIZPLXH2SO\"><em>The Martian<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250037751\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1250037751&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rysbl08-20&#038;linkId=VHPEDAYNWQHPRET5\"><em>Mr. Penumbra&#8217;s 24-Hour Bookstore<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1607747308\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1607747308&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rysbl08-20&#038;linkId=WXUJOTEVHQB54H4X\"><em>The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Took 2440 pictures that I kept on my computer (down 13% from 2814 in 2014). I guess I took even fewer trips in 2015 than 2014!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/baking\">Baked<\/a> at least 53 items (down 2% from 54 in 2014).<\/li>\n<li>Lost $205 playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/poker\">poker<\/a> (compared to losing $104 in 2014). Well, I played less in 2015 than 2014, so there was variance&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Lost $16 through other forms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/gambling\">gambling<\/a> (compared to losing $1620 in 2014). Well, I cut my losses by 99%, but I also wasn&#8217;t going for status like in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So once again, no major changes, like moving or changing jobs, but I just work on this blog less and less&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have once again managed to wait a whole month before recapping the previous year. My energy levels and concentration have dropped considerably. Probably something to improve in 2016&#8230; though who knows if it&#8217;ll happen?? What happened in 2015: Wrote &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63],"tags":[354],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-updates","tag-354"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}