2023 in numbers

2023 was to me, a year of loss and helplessness. Losing mommi is a life changing event, something permanent, something that left a mark. Losing the pet Cocoa is saddening, but she lived a long healthy life so there is solace in that. Losing Brownie is a distressing shock, I am still feeling the remorse and guilt, I should have provided her a safe environment to grow old, but I let her down.

2023 is full of helplessness, the inability to make things better in regards to mommi prior to her passing, and the powerlessness of her sudden passing. The pay cut. The leaving of a capable colleague, the other thermal engineer. The helplessness and frustration in the dealing with customer. The projects assignment. The failed patent attempts. The drifting apart and the inability to stop it, to revert it.

Here are the 2023 numbers:

125 blog entries. 11 entries per month except November, 16 years continuously, a testament to my persistence, consistence and self-discipline.

29 days of commute to work recorded, which covered 1314.0 kilometres, giving an average of 45.3 kilometres per day.

9 petrol filling recorded. My five years old Civic is doing an average of 12.8 kilometre per litre of petrol. This is the average with long distance trips, urban driving average is probably closer to the 11 to 12 km/l range.

26 days of leave taken. 3 more days compared to last year. This is a healthy trend. =)

125 days of worked till overtime-worthy late, a 8.1% reduction from last year. Still a large number of working overtime, but am glad it is in the right declining trend. I have all overtime duration recorded, the total is 334 hours and 26 minutes, and the average overtime duration is 2 hours 40 minutes and 30 seconds. So in effect I am doing worse than last year, since although I worked overtime fewer days compared to last year, I worked on average 40 minutes longer when I did overtime. Not good. =(

Putting the overtime count into perspective: 52 weeks of 5 working days = 260 working days. Take away 17 public and replacement holidays, and take away 26 days of leave I had 217 working days. Out of the 217 days I worked overtime 125 days, that's 57.6%. Sad.

0 days on business trip. =)

3 online tabletop gaming sessions held, a drastic reduction from last year, oh well... We played 2 board games this year, both games are familiar games, no new game tried.

20 novels read, 15 new books and 5 reread, a huge 48.7% drop from last year, sad. Average of 18.3 days for a book. Read rate is horrible this year. =(

0 patent filing. Failed. =(

46, 19, 16, 14, 4+1, 0 for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear reader, wish you a wonderful 2024.

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