...so what HAVE I even been doing all 2023?
I know what I've done most of December which was doing routine maintenance and then upgrades on the Amiga1200 I've acquired from ebay (photo story with lots of comments over on my google drive:
Amiga1200 pics ) but what happened during the rest of the year?
I remember that I had a pretty solid development phase early 2023 where I started working on a shooter game but I think around March, energy dried out and the project was left far from being finished. I hope I'll pick it up again someday though, I think it has great potential, I just lacked focus and discipline to continue development (well... as usual, depression and adhd also had a part in that).
So from [April, November] I suppose I was mostly just vegetating along but I'll see if I can find any notes/logs which might tell me otherwise.
Oh, one thing is I started collecting Amiga games, already acquired over 30 original big box releases from back in its' heyday, I want to make a photo gallery of those too at some point.
Off to the notes and logs now...what else has been done?
One thing that apparently has not been done was quickly found in my January-2023 notes: I had intended to make mindmaps for different areas of study and practice (art, music, exercise), going to put that forward to the 2024 plans.
A neat little item I made early 2023 is a weekly mini-plan-log-sheet, it often helped me to remember the essentials for any given week and to keep track of short term goals and the very few appointments that I had over the year. It's transparent foil over a paper print, so it can be erased and re-used easily each week:
pic of planner thing
other random bits of stuff which got done somehow in 2023:
- at various dates, simple dust-covers for various pieces of old and new hardware
- in January, an 8x8@1bpp sci-fi pixel font called Terminal Chonker
- in February until about mid April, quite intense coding phase working on a shooter game
- in July, built a desk space expansion to relocate old harware (C64, Amiga stuff) from my retro shrine to my main desk and made heavy use of cable management: old hardware pics
- in August, cleaned and repaired my brother's Amiga500 (it bugged me that it was rotting away in the non-living-just-storage-area of the attic)
- in September, mini update to 8x8@1bpp RPG asset pack (some sci-fi icons)
In between those very few things there was a lot of idle time (day in day out just passiveness, insomnia, headaches, low energy, overall poor mood, zero motivation and often too much coffee), two short but intense phases of grinding DiabloIV (at release and at the start of season one) and scattered across the year repeated attempts at establishing routines for regular reading on different topics, for educating myself about and figuring out how to cope with adhd and for physical exercise.
None of that stuck, need to try again in 2024, might work out this time because I switched meds which apart from a heavy withdrawal/change period in December, seem to have an overall positive effect on my activity level.
One more thing I remember is that I had a few periods of struggling with my 3D printer, I enjoyed designing cases for some (all retro hardware related) things but printing them was a hassle each and every time, lost count of how many times over the year I adjusted and recompiled the firmware, re-leveled the bed, cleaned or tried other nozzles and re-assembled various pieces on the printer, quite fed up with the thing.
Now to make plans and collect thoughts for 2024...
