Morning Coffee 89: December 25th, 2023

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Good evening. It’s Christmas Eve, and it’s pouring down raining. Very cozy. Currently just finished a long nap, popcorn, and The Polar Express with Rose. This week’s newsletter will be really simple. Just a list of everything that happened this year. As always, I hope this letter finds you well. Merry Christmas.

50 Things From 2023

1. Prepared for The Year of Depth
2. Recorded drafts for a new album
3. Played a lot of basketball
4. Filled my rings every day
5. Taught my wife GTD
6. Made some playlists
7. Planted a garden in the backyard
8. Built an office
9. Started a new job
10. Celebrated our first anniversary
11. Took Rose on lots of walks
12. Olivia became a photographer
13. Bought a new keyboard
14. Turned thirty seven
15. Published for a year
16. Wrote about the iPad mini
17. Went on a camping trip
18. Played Tears of the Kingdom
19. Coached basketball in NOLA
20. Wrote about time
21. Served in a wedding out of town
22. Went to zoo in New Orleans
23. Went to a beach
24. Went on vacation to Alabama
25. Made a video with Rose
26. Wrote about how to pack
27. Went to another beach
28. Took family to a military museum
29. Wrote about my site
30. Saw Oppenheimer in IMAX
31. Wrote about Apple Notes
32. Went to lots of parks
33. Wrote how to build a website
34. Played in an alumni game
35. Wrote a sling review
36. Read lots of Kindle
37. Started retro gaming
38. Took lots of photos of Rose
39. Bought the Apple Watch Ultra 2
40. Wrote about building a newsletter
41. Family went through two months of health issues
42. Went to a pumpkin patch
43. Wrote about Rose turning two
44. Bought a new Christmas tree
45. Explained how to clean up photos
46. Went to a Christmas parade
47. Started one-hour silent walks
48. Started building poetry books
49. No more social
50. Sold/traded a lot of my gadgets

Nothing fancy about this list. Just a log of my year. The big and the small. The writing projects. The family projects. The personal milestones. And everything else in between.

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