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# My Life Goals
-Last updated 2022-05-17
+Last updated 2023-11-05
My life sucks. That's why I constantly think about dying. Don't worry,
I won't do it *right* now, but it's a prudent act to list out all the
@@ -15,45 +15,83 @@ There's some cross-referencing among the items, so I've added labels in
__boldface__ and/or dependencies (dep) in parentheses where necessary.
## Art
-- Learn bass (__bass__)
+- <s>Learn bass</s> (__bass__) (learning it right now)
- Get enough vocal training to not sound terrible
- Learn basic music theory
+- <s>Record a song</s> I covered [Early Sunsets Over
+ Monroeville](../music/early-sunsets-over-monroeville.md) by My Chemical
+ Romance and wrote [This Song Will Uncure Your
+ Depression](../music/uncure-your-depression.md)
- Start playing drums again (__drum__)
- Join a rock band as bassist (dep: bass) or drummer (dep: drum)
-- Go to a twenty øne piløts concert in every album cycle (dep: us-uni)
-- Buy Trench (2018) on CD or cassette
-- Go to an IDKHOW concert (dep: us-uni)
+- Go to a twenty øne piløts concert (dep: umich)
+- <s>Buy Trench (2018) on CD or cassette</s> I bought a CD!
+- <s>Go to an IDKHOW concert (dep: umich)</s> Checked as of
+ [2024-04-05](2024-04-05.md)
+- Go to a MCR concert (dep: umich)
+- Go to a Green Day concert (dep: umich)
- Learn to properly rap the entirety of Car Radio
+- Learn to play Jesus Of Suburbia on bass
+- Learn to play Paranoid Android on bass
+- <s>Get more stickers</s>
+- Get a few figurines or little artifacts on my desktop
+- Get a hammer and a sickle to put on my wall
+- Commission an artist
+- Have something signed by, or take a photo with an artist I know
## University
- Get a bachelor's degree in ECE
-- Get a second BS and/or MS at a US university (__us-uni__)
+- <s>Get offer from UMich</s> (__umich__)
+- Get a bachelor's in CE at UMich
+- Get a master's
- Publish a paper of some sort somewhere and snail mail my friends signed
copies of it
-- Become head of tech dep't of student union
+- <s>Become head of tech dep't of student union</s> I made it through one
+ year of tenure
+- <s>Become TA of Intro to Comp Engr</s> I got the job and made it through
+ the semester!
## Engineering
-- Get access to a machine shop, learn to use the lathe, milling machine,
- and electric drill
+- <s>Get access to a machine shop</s> There is one in uni
+- <s>Use the lathe</s>
+- <s>Use milling machine</s>
+- <s>Use electric drill</s>
- Learn to make PCBs like a professional (__pro-pcb__, dep: reflow)
-- Get an oscilloscope and learn to use it
-- Get a reflow oven and learn to use it (__reflow__)
+- Get an oscilloscope
+- <s>Learn to use an oscilloscope</s>
+- <s>Learn reflow soldering (__reflow__)</s> Check out [Reflow
+ Workshop](../projects/reflow-workshop.md#2023-04-09-sunday)
+- <s>Host a reflow soldering workshop (dep: reflow)</s> (It's finally over)
- Try more embedded development
- Get a PinePhone Pro and hack it
-- This is gonna sound like an sponsorship but it's not. Get a Pinecil,
- PineTab, PinePower, PineNote and PineBuds
+- This is gonna sound like an sponsorship but it's not. Get
+ a <s>Pinecil</s>, PineTab, PinePower, PineNote and PineBuds
- Make a submarine. Around 2 liters in volume, uncrewed (obviously)
- Make my kid(s) a custom calculator to avoid those lame Casios, assuming
- they'd still use those for math 20 years later (dep: kid, pro-pcb)
+ they'd still use those for math 20 years later (__calc__, dep: kid,
+ pro-pcb)
- Go to my high school machine shop and help out my engineering teacher
and his FRC team
-- Host workshops about electronics (dep: pro-pcb)
- Learn to make better 3D models
- Learn to operate a 3D printer
- Design a PCB namecard that is functional in at least one way
- Document development of a project in a video
- Use the V-USB library somewhere
- Make a portable electronic musical instrument
+- Make a computer keyboard do something else while looking the same
+- Use an e-ink screen in a project, probably the custom calculator
+- Make an elliptical reflector dish
+- <s>Write some assembly</s> wrote some for EECS 370
+- <s>Try an ARM SBC</s> I just realized I have a Raspberry Pi
+- <s>Try writing STM32 C</s> did some of this for EECS 373. The code style
+ ST uses is __terrible__ (2 spaces, line break before curly brace,
+ `CamelAndSnake_Case`, uppercase function names)
+- Try a RISC-V SBC
+- <s>Make a weird-looking USB flash drive</s> I made one out of a covid
+ rapid test box
+- <s>Give someone something handmade as a gift</s> I gave a [blobcat
+ PCB](../projects/blobcat-pcb.md) to my friend
+- Use an Espressif SoC on a PCB
## Computer
- DIY a desktop computer, which conceivably will run Arch Linux and KDE
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- Attend a convention of any kind
- Observe a furry convention (but not participate)
- Learn CW (a.k.a. morse code)
-- Get a ham radio license and buy a handheld station
+- <s>Get a ham radio license and buy a handheld station</s> DE BH4FXW 73
+ sent from my UV-5R
+- <s>Get an FCC ham radio license as well</s> KE8ZVB
- Eliminate as much meat as possible from diet
- Declare myself expert in at least one thing
- Own a cat (probably two)
- Read all books by Karl Marx
- Get a semi-professional filming rig with a greenscreen and stuff
- Have one or more kids (__kid__)
-- Get my own credit card
+- <s>Get my own credit card</s> (at least it's got my name on it)
- Install solar panels somewhere
- Seek revenge on that one roommate whose gaming noise keeps me up at
night
@@ -90,4 +130,6 @@ __boldface__ and/or dependencies (dep) in parentheses where necessary.
- Co-author an IETF RFC
- Get a tiny tattoo
- Restuff my blåhaj
-- Make something totally unrelated look like an electrolytic capacitor
+- Make something that is not, but looks like an electrolytic capacitor
+- Flip off a conservative
+- Do standup comedy at an open mic night