Goals for 2016

I don't like to make resolutions for the year ahead.  I much prefer to think of them as goals for the new year. 

With that in mind I also make sure that they are SMART goals.  If you are not familiar with the idea of a SMART goal here ia a quick primer

Specific (Goals must be clear and unambiguous) 

Measurable (Results must be able to be measured in some way, for example, the number of products sold each week, or the percent completion)

Attainable (Goals must be realistic and attainable by the average employee)

Relevant (Goals must relate to your organization's vision and mission) 

Time-bound (Goals must have definite starting and ending points, and a fixed duration)

I'll be keep these in mind as I write my own goals for 2016.  Looking at the list means of each letter you can see that they were intended for a group or organization but that doesn't make them any less valuable to an individuals goals.

Health:

• Complete Zombies Run couch to 5k:

 This is to be completed by tamile's birthday June 20th.  It will go a long way towards my own journey of health. Completing this has also been a long time goal for me as well, and it is one that I will see completed at long last this year.

•  Build to a weekly exercise routine

 I find that I easily fall in a routine that lacks exercise.  So much of my life and the things I enjoy are sedentary that I need to work to actively make physically activity apart of my daily / weekly routine.  By January 16th I will post a weekly schedule that will show my intended out routine.  Then by the end of January I'll post a follow up to show how I've been doing on it.

Personal:

• Get my drivers license.

I've had my beginner's license for a long time at this point and it is time I get off my ass and be able to drive on my own.  Far to often there are things I miss out on because of my inability to drive myself to them.

• Lifestyle Skills  and Power Exchange

There are a number of different skills that fall in to the kink lifestyle that I have dabbled in.  I really want to take the time to learn to make use of these skills in more in-depth.  I want to be able to use them in scenes at will, without having to take the time to for example look through a book as I'm working. 

An important part of those lifestyle skills include developing a relationship with someone to whom I can have an on going power exchange relationship.  I have parts of that style of relationship with two people at the moment but know that it could be so much more.

Professional:

• Clear attendance record at work.

 This is a simple one.  All I need to do is not miss work and it will take care of itself.

•  Successfully launch and fulfill Casting KickStarter

 This one is far more complex then the last one.  It would take many posts to explain it all and everything that is required.

• Complete test and prototyping for Gnome Care and continue working on other games

 If I want to be successful in the world of game design I need to always be working on projects.  It isn't enough to just make a single game and then start on the next one.  I need always be working on the next game, the next project.

Spiritual:

• Develop a regular meditation practice

 A few times over the last couple of years I have started to try and set up a meditation practice.  The times I have started the practice I have very much enjoyed the experience and felt better for it.  I want to be able to develop a practice that allows me to tap into that experience.

Anyways those are my goals for 2016.  It took me longer to post them then I had intended, but they were up and posted before the end of the first week.  So I'm happy with that accomplishment.  

The good, the bad, the ugly and a question

It has been an eventful weekend to say the least.  I'm truly glad it turned out the way it did as it is the last weekend before I return to work.  With the Doctors ok I'll be back on tomorrow Tuesday.  On one hand over all I'm not thrilled to be going back.  I'm enjoying the time at home working with tamile, getting stuff done around the house, and even doing some writing.  That being said I also know it is important that I get back in to the regular routine of working a daily job.

So lets start with the good of this post.  This Friday after running errands and a meeting we spent the evening babysitting two of the grandkids.  It was the two grandkids that we don't see as often so it was a lot of fun.  The four of us played, cuddled and watched a bit of TV.  tamile took care of putting the older one to bed and I took care of putting the baby to bed.   It was only willpower that kept me awake through the process.  We were going to offer to keep them over night but they came by early to pick the kids up.

The weekend continued to be good Saturday afternoon was spent at a local game store running a demo of a new game called Nefarious.  It was a pretty good game and I will likely write a review of it in the next few days.  That evening was when the real fun began.  tamile and I hosted our first party since June.

In the past we have regularly hosted kink focused parties.  Basically once a month we invite over friends to hang out, chat, have a few drinks, share our kinks with each other, and even demonstrate a few kinky things to the room.  We tried a couple of things differently this time around.  We invited less people so those who did attend had more space.  It made for a way more intimate evening. Everyone who came out played in some way or another, which I am pretty sure is a first.  tamile and I started off the evening with a great flogging scene, it had been to long since we did that..  Our Brandon family followed up with their own impact play scene.  A few people did some electro play,  I got to have a small electro play scene with a regular attendee and then followed it up with an electro play and impact play with a first timer to our parties.  A very cute (Currently red headed) woman the scene was really good and fun to play with.    All in all it was a great night.  One of the more enjoyable parts was a sitting four people across our three person couch.  I had tamile pressed into me on one side and the red head on the other.  It was a rough place to be sitting for sure with both of them cuddling up into me.  Somewhere between 3 and 4 in the morning the last of the guests left.

Sunday continued to be good our home based gaming group met and started a new adventure for the first time since last April.  It was a pretty good session all.  There wasn't a lot of things happening in it, but everyone had fun and we got the adventure started.

Now for the bad is that the weekend is nearly over.

Last but not least the ugly.  I normally wear a kilt to kink events.  tamile makes a wonderful cargo kilt that are awesome to wear and comfortable as hell.  I have two wonderful kilts that she made and to be honest they are far from ugly.  What is ugly is they they don't fit anymore.  I can't say that this is a bad thing but at the same time I can't call it a good thing either.  Which is what makes it ugly?  I want to be happy and excited by them not fitting but it also means I am without a cargo kilt for a while.

Finally the question; I have been only posting this blog for a while now and I was reminded today that I have a couple of other blogs.  Ones that are specifically focused on gaming and the other one focused on Kink.  Should I go back to posting about those other topics specifically to those other blogs and try and generate more content or should I just keep posting everything to this one?