What are your goals for next year?

[Metalhead]

Simple enough thread topic.

2025 is almost here. Where the hell did this year go?

I will work on budgeting to make day trips to Seattle on weekends, go to more social events, make more hobby acquaintances, break my isolation a lot more.

What are your plans for 2025?

 

[Outdated]

I plan to travel and do a whole heap of nature photography. I've just bought a little wagon and finished setting it up for a solo camper, just need to wait for the summer school holidays to end so that places are less crowded.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Same goal as every year Pinkie - to take over the world.

And maybe get an ice cream cone.

 

[Nitro]

I have a full schedule ahead of me that involves improvements on the homefront, machinery repair, refinishing a huge drillpress,

building a new lineshaft at the Steam gas and horse association shop, placing 4 machines, an 1850 planer table, a 1930 Racine power hacksaw, the drillpress and a 125 year old lathe to run of the new shaft and finishing up the cartoon minibike project:

My old 1950 Farmall H needs some attention and I have an upcoming show in May to get ready for.
After the May show is out of the way, we have our August show too.

Today I decided to add my Gnarley-Davidson internal combustion engine converted Schwinn Stingray to the mix.
66cc two stroker driving a Sturmey-Archer three speed planetary hub to serve as a transmission with full hydraulic disc brakes on the final product.
This is my fully restored Stingray which is the same bike as the Gnarley I'm adding the engine to:

On top of all that, I will be helping a neighbor get his 1957 Nash Metropolitan on the road.
Not Ken's, but the same ride:

Once again, it will be a very busy year

(I would defy a person half my age to keep up to my usual pace)

 

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..... refinishing a huge drillpress,
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Is that the one you bought just recently? It's looking great.

 

[Nitro]

Is that the one you bought just recently? It's looking great.

Yes, and thank you.

So far it has been a lot of work disassembling it and prepping it for fresh paint.
Basically have about four full days in it now, most of them stripping a century of old paint off it with a pneumatic needle scaler and flap-wheeling the castings to prep them for final finish.
About 500 pounds of cast iron gear guards prior to their coats of primer:

Paint chip pile with a three pound (1.36 kg) coffee can:

 

[Nitro]

I'm 64 and at times have trouble keeping up to my 83 year old father who still goes to work every day.
I guess it runs in our blood

 

[Misty Avich]

To move to a quieter apartment.

 

[Metalhead]

I also fully intend to get involved in LGBT activism soon

 

[UFO]

What are your plans for 2025?

I'm considering getting finally a proper diagnosis.

I thought that hanging here and reading other people's experiences would finally bring some clarity if I am an autistic, or just a SPCD-case or something, but I have became even more confused instead. While an assessment would have no effect on my social and life situation (I am too old to learn new tricks, and already found my ways to fit in...) I do have a feeling that I need a proper assessment at least for self-identity purposes and to fend of that nasty feeling me being in a wrong crowd unless I get certainty

Of course, this is just a consideration phase. Next phase would be making a preliminary decision. Then would come gathering will and momentum. Then fending of second thoughts. And only then an actual action. I am probably ready to contact a doctor around 2026

 

[kriss72]

To survive... it's a year that will follow '24 which has been difficult, and there are still things ahead of me that I have no idea how I will solve - I'm more optimistic about 2026

 

[Metalhead]

To survive... it's a year that will follow '24 which has been difficult, and there are still things ahead of me that I have no idea how I will solve - I'm more optimistic about 2026

I know I am not going to stuff myself back into the closet because half the country wants me to be another Mathew Shepard, that’s for damn sure.

 

[Loren]

My goal for the coming year is to cure Lyme disease, so I can get back to work and live life as I used to.

 

[Rachie]

Sometimes it is sad that much of the world due to weather seems to go into a lockdown in winter and open up a good while into the new year.

I look for things of interest. I don't know how I would manage the hours and the communication aspect, we all need some.

I saw a drama class at an adult education centre that one of my consultants recommended but that doesn't start to May. This is good to me weather wise and gives me time get there but for me that is best lead into the year ahead.

I wish you all the best

 

[Aspychata]

This year was so difficult, l haven't given much thought to it. My goals would be working on emotional regulation, moving, getting a cat, and easing into next year just being happy.

 

[Metalhead]

Be a happier healthier more productive version of myself.

And also figure out who I really am outside of the shadow of a toxic bloodline. What do I want in life? Not more time on my couch, that’s for damn sure.

 

[Metalhead]

I probably should find some aim and direction in my life at this point. I have a world around me outside of my family’s expectations. What the hell do I want to do with the rest of my life? Where do I want to go? What do I want to do? Where will I find my purpose? Only I can answer those questions but my brain draws a blank.

 

[Dillon]

My goals for 2025 are to strive in gaining employment again, and focus on building on my early career. Most importantly my goal is to be more positive and confident in myself.

 

[AprilR]

I need to find a job and find some way to support my parents without driving.

 

[Kisa the tea]

Spend more time with partner
Be less stressed
Eat good food