Well it has been a while (namely 12 months) since I have posted anything that I did not already write. For fun lets look at these predictions I put for 2013 and see what did and did not happen.
Strike through means wrong. Bold means nailed it. Underlined means jury is still out.
- Whatever team takes Johnny Football, will regret it
- The Hawkeyes will be bowl eligible but it will be an embarrassment bowl
- I will break down and get a tablet of some sort (Partial, Tress got one for Christmas)
- Miley Cyrus will fade away
- The House stays with the GOP but
Boehner is booted out as Speaker(I’m sad this one was wrong)Senate is tighter but Dem’s and Prince Harry retain control(I’m ok with this one being wrong)- Iowa gets two Republican Senators
- Amnesty happens (Essentially it happened)
- The Bengals make it to the AFC Championship game but lose to the…
Basically I was about 60% right, with the option to get to 80%
So without further ado, here are my predictions for 2015.
- We will be forced to get another car (despite the van purchase in November of 2014).
- The Bengals will miss the playoffs.
- The price of gas stays under $3.50 (locally) for most of the year and the economy is better.
- Super Hot Summer… ugh hope I am wrong on this.
- Before the super hot summer, winter won’t leave us until… May.
- Senator Grassley decides not to run again
- Obamacare goes back to the Supreme Court where it is a close decision that the subsidies thing is unconstitutional (even though we all knew that).
- The Reds miss October play, but the Cubs get there.
- We will have to put some major money in the house for a repair this year (hope I’m wrong).
- I become proficient on Linux again
I also had some goals in this post. Here they are
- Drastically cut back on social media. I have scaled way back my usage from about two years ago. I am thinking that this is more of a I post occasionally on Twitter and do the necessary Waffle House Iowa Posts on Facebook.
- Mostly a success, I would like to completely ditch Facebook but it is a necessary evil it seems.
- Investigate and sign up for higher education. I have some places picked out, I don’t want to spoil it right now but I would like to start the ball rolling on this soon. Spoiler alert though, Masters.
- Success, I got myself enrolled at Georgia Tech, however I had some learning pains. As of right now I am going to continue but I am not sure this is worth the headache
- Lose some weight. We all say this, but I really need to take it more seriously. It was all fun and games before with eating bacon because I could. I probably should think about eating healthier. My goal here is to drop about 60 pounds and keep it off.
- HA Fail, pretty sure I gained weight.
- Read the Bible more faithfully. Sure I read it often but I want to get back to where I was doing it multiple times a day and not just reading it as a history book.
- Mostly a success, I was able to read through the entire Bible in a years time (still working the last bit of Revelation right now ;). I did miss some days, and had to play catch up, which made it harder.
- Witness to one person a month. This one will be challenging but all part of the Great Commission.
- Complete Fail. No Excuse
- Spend more time with kids. Right now I probably don’t spend a lot of time playing, reading, teaching, or interacting with my two kids. Time is precious, and it is slipping through the hourglass of time.
- Partial Success, I did spend more time with them but still not enough as I should have.
So with that in mind, it is time for some new goals for 2015
- Weight Loss, has to be done.
- Re-read the Bible, this time in chronological order.
- Write some sort of Mobile/web App for train spotting.
- Smoke some meat each month.
- Get Waffle House in Iowa
- Work on the past goals from 2014 (see goal one from this list)
That being said, Happy New Year!