2025 in numbers

2025 was to me, a year of feeling my age, or perhaps, more than my age. The prevailing thought is that I am old, that I feel old. The recent medical check up confirmed what I know all along, that I am unfit. The estimated health age is 58.7 years.

The weariness of the mind, of heart, of emotion persisted, a continuation from previous year. While there is peace now at home, it's still lacking in warmth. A cold sanctuary. Also unchanged from previous year are the regular unfulfillment, discontentment, disappointment. Feel defeated, drained, neglected. Grim, I know.

So anyway, here are the 2025 numbers:

125 blog entries. 11 entries per month except November, for 18 consecutive years now.

46 days of commute to work recorded, which covered 2073.1 kilometres, giving an average of 45.1 kilometres per day.

7 petrol fillings recorded. My seven years old Civic is doing an average of 13.5 kilometres per litre of petrol.

23.5 days of leave taken, of which there were 7 half-day leaves and 20 full day leaves. 0.5 days more than last year. =P

118 days of worked till overtime-worthy late. 8 days less than last year. My target was less than 100 days, which I failed to achieve but still, improvement, yay! Clocked a total of 354 hours and 57 minutes, and the average overtime duration is 3 hours 0 minute and 29 seconds. So even though I worked overtime 8 days less than last year, on average the overtime duration per day is 24 minutes more than last year's, that is bad. Oh well, still aiming for less than 100 days next year, and hopefully not at the expense of longer overtime.

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 23.5 days of leave I had 219.5 working days. Out of the 219.5 days I worked overtime 118 days, that's 53.8%. Less than last year but still, urgh... =(

0 days on business trip. =)

0 online tabletop gaming session held. I think this activity is dead.

28 novels read, all new books! =) Managed to read seven more books compared to last year, nice. Average of 13.0 days for a book, could be faster I suppose, but two weeks per book is not bad.

3 patent filings. Exceeded expectation! =D

48, 21, 18, 16, 7+1, 3 for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear blog viewer, wish you a wonderful 2026.

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