long-term

 667th post, sad day. 666 should reign supreme.  

My end goals for competency are as follows: 

  • LIFTING: 8% body fat at 160 lbs. 
    • This should not be too much, so it won't mess with Boston, which brings me to...
  • RUNNING: BQ consistently
    • Ideally, 2:45 marathon and all the other times that match that
  • MUSIC: Play clarinet in a reputable symphonic band or orchestra, play piano at the level where I can accompany choir and sing at the same time myself, and learn organ so I can get a few gigs doing that. 
  • ART: Do commissions (2D and 3D), make comics, make games and VNs. Have an impressive portfolio and reel. Do FX and rigging. Have models and textures available on sites like TurboSquid
    • Also be sure to watch shows and play games to stay immersed
  • WRITING: Publication, read a ton, fanfic submissions 
  • CODING/IT: Top at Leetcode/Neetcode, Kaggle/Advent of Code/CTFs, impressive portfolio of completed programs/apps and games, IT/security certs, freelancing and releasing my own products
  • ENGINEERING: Fully prepped to redo school without it killing me, all topics I want to study already pre-studied in EE/ME, full theme park resort planned out and modeled in Unreal or Unity, theme park blogging 
  • VISUALIZATION: be able to impose (prophantasia) and intensively visualize, especially humans, which will help me with my character design aspirations
  • COMMUNICATION: I want to reply on TIME to messages and be active in engaging with others. This will help me build up a community 
  • GAMING and GAME DEV: Play lots of games, code lots of games, blog about games.  

My timeline: 

2024:

  • Resume cut after recovering from cold, finish by mid-December 
  • 1-2 weeks maintenance, followed by lean bulk through April, then a mini cut into May
  • Friday night messaging 
  • figure out the best approach to preparing for band each concert cycle. No more dropping out in fast or high sections. 
  • practice sight reading in piano 
    • also learn how to sing tenor part while playing piano 
  • play Xmas music 
  • December: Advent of Code 
  • review elementary math, finish by end of Dec / early Jan 
  • Cracking the Coding Interview 
  • re-outline Pokemon fanfic
  • outline first webcomic 
  • learn RenPy
  • fix Foam Fraction Flow 

2025: 

  • Get up to 60 miles for peak week of running (8 miles per day on weekdays) in the summer
  • crank through writing a book a year
    • Because in 2026, we need to be ready to start submitting to publishers 
  • 52 book challenge 
  • relaunch Pokemon fanfic
    • And review others each Friday 
  • CompTIA Trifecta 
    • begin the rest of TCM Security's path
  • do a CTF
  • fully finish Foam Fraction Flow and publish it
  • Neetcode 150 
  • study equivalent of freshman year of ENG
  • perfectly visualize and impose 1 character, then draw them 
  • 1 art piece in 2D and 1 in 3D per week
  • 1 game per month at least (backlog challenge) 
  • create FX demo reel 
  • Release first mobile app on the store using Flutter 
  • Finish prototype of at least 3 levels of Fortune Quest 
  • learn to rig 
  • July: Art Fight 
  • Oct: Drawtober
  • Nov: Rough Draft Challenge
  • Dec: Advent of Code
  • PLC Dojo: At least 50% of it
  • Finish design of theme park (not the full implementation, but know what each land is going to have and have this all written out)
  • revamp portfolio website 
  • do all the graphics projects in Real Time Rendering 
  • launch first webcomic 
  • launch another fanfic
  • launch first VN
  • build an embedded app of some sort 
  • make the following trips
    • WDW and SeaWorld Orlando 
    • Ohio for Cedar Point, Cedar Point Shores, Kalahari, and Kings Island (at least) 
    • Yellowstone National Park plus Yellowstone Bear World 
    • Grand Teton National Park 
    • San Diego Comic Con: Also do Belmont Park and the Wave Chula Vista 
    • pick another place to go
    • local parks: Lagoon, Splash Summit, Cowabunga Bay, Scera Park Pools, Cherry Hill, and Lindon Aquatics 
    • possibly Mt. Whitney 
    • Maybe Hawaii if I get a really good job
    • Disneyland 

By 2026, I should get a few more security certs, do a rigging reel, and finish all of the PLC Dojo. 

By 2027, I'll be able to map out when to do engineering, and when to do a CS PhD. 

How will this happen? Atomic habits, 2-minute rule, treating it all like workouts. Sundays are sometimes crap, I had to revert to my 2-min strategy for coding and eng when I wanted to do 5 mins at least. 

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