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title: '2024: Review'
date: 2025-01-01 10:47 +0100
lang: "en"
categories: "life"
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So, already wanted to do this yesterday, but I think today works as well.
Reviewing the previous year, this happened:

- Started the year at Furvester
- Went to eight suitwalks
- Went to five local furmeets (without suitwalk)
- Decided to let go of my long hair (much less vacuuming needed now!
  Also, less fussing about my hair beig fuzzy)
- Went to two CSDs
- Went to [Awoostria]({% post_url 2024-07-31-awoostria-2024 %})
- Went to [EAST]({% post_url 2024-09-04-convention-report-east-12-2024 %})
- Had a good run at learning Swedish, but suddenly in the middle of the year the interest dropped
- Same with guitar
- Played around with [Darktable](https://www.darktable.org/) for a bit, trying to learn photo editing,
  got either bored or overwhelmed at it [1], and dropped it again (you notice a pattern???)
- Played around with GPG (by setting up WKD) [2], HomeAssistant,
  [Chromebook]({% post_url 2024-12-01-new-device-acquired-chromebook %}),
  [Tailscale]({% post_url 2024-12-08-trying-out-tailscale %}),
  [PostmarketOS]({% post_url 2024-12-17-postmarketos-first-impressions %}),
  [Large Language Models](https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/)
- Repaired something
  [on my car]({% post_url 2024-11-28-selbstwirksamkeit-ich-hab-was-am-auto-repariertcd-website-blog-uvokchee-de %})
  myself
- Struggled with work again, not quite satisfied with my job at times
- Had health problems several times this year

[1] Especially the overwhelmed part came when trying to edit RAW photos, and
 the saturation was way too low. No idea what I was missing, maybe I
 was trying to shoot for the moon in the first try? \
[2] Number of GPG encrypted or signed mails send/received then: zero.
 It was a fun exercise, though.