New Year's Retrospective 2017

Well, that was a year!

Last year, schoolpsychnerd and I went to resaamnesia's New Year's Eve party, along with a giant bottle of お屠蘇 (otoso), like we did the year before. It was good! At least, I thought so. I don't think many other people drank much of it, other than when chronicluscious mixed it with rose water and made a mixed drink that even oddsboy wouldn't drink, which is an accomplishment in itself. I'm told it smelled really good but tasted like soap. I'm glad I missed it. I stuck with plain お屠蘇 like I did last year. It was delicious.

Looking at last year's retrospective, I did accomplish some of my goals. I was a bit more social, and I was much more serious about Japanese. Playing all those video games in Japanese and reading 世界の中心で愛を叫ぶ with my Japanese tutor meant that I'm reading substantial lengths of Japanese every week, if not necessarily every day, and still getting plenty of speaking practice. I did play Android this year with drydem and damaskrosechicago, and won again even though I was Floyd the bioroid this time instead of Raymond the P.I. I still haven't played Kingdom Death, and have all the minis unassembled in boxes around our apartment.

We saved an enormous amount of money coupled with a stock market completely detatched from how the economy is performing for anyone of median income, so on paper we made a bunch of money but our lifestyle hasn't changed at all, and seems to have hit a nice equilibrium where we can put money into both short-term and long-term savings sufficient to have enough to cover emergencies and to save for trips or anything we'd like to buy. We did switch to the new data management system at work and it's , but we're probably switching to another system pretty soon. At the moment, I have to deal with the enormous amount of data that the system can't handle, but that's actually job security for me--my entire job is based around computers not being good enough to handle everything themselves yet, so more incompetent computers means more work for me, which means more reason for me to work. I will not complain.

My Warlords of the Mushroom Kingdom game is still going strong, to my happiness. It's not the longest-running game I've ever been in, but it's almost at two years now (it'll hit two years the second week of March). That's really good, since the average game lasts less than a year (around one academic year, in fact).

There's a traditional new year's meme that's going around Dreamwidth and, before it, went around LJ. I've never answered it before, but it provides a nice structure to my retrospective. Here:
( Forty questions )

皆様、明けましておめでとうございます。ご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。新年も宜しくお願い致します。

Happy New Year!