2008 Goals in Review

Last year around this time I uploaded my goals for 2008. The wisdom was if you publicly state some of your goals you are more likely to take the steps to achieve them. I found this a good exercise last year and something I will do this year. Before I list my 2009 goals I thought I would take a minute to see how I did in achieving my 2008 goals.



* Run a 1:30 half-marathon time
Getting closer with each race. Will have to try harder in 2009


* Go on more OHOC outdoor adventures
Achieved


* Do more hiking trips
Achieved (OHOC trips, Catochins, Pretty Boy dam, etc.)


* Climb more of the 46ers (46 highest peaks in the Adirondacks , NY)
Achieved. Climbed a couple of more peaks


* Loose 10 lbs by May 30 (race date –National Capital half-marathon)
Achieved.


* Hike the West Coast Trail/Shenandoah National Park/Old Smoky National Park
No. Shifted to 2009.


* Run a faster Baltimore half-marathon (< 1:34 ) in October 2008
Achieved. Each year I run the race around a minute faster


* Visit Brent ( Algonquin Park ) by canoeing and portaging and bring along a digital camera
No. But parents had two roofs and one patio deck rebuilt.


* Reach 500,000 Babble point (now 350,000) www.playbabble.com
Achieved. When I combine my babble scores and wordabble scores I achieved this goal.


* Do more cycling (road and mountain biking)
No. Ouch


* Geocaching goal 900-1000 finds by Dec 31 2008
Achieved in the spring and finished off the year with 949 finds.


* Become more mobile
No


* Complete an Olympic Distance triathlon (1500m swum/40km cycle/10km run)
No


* Swing dancing – Learn the Lindy Hop
Achieved but more work to do.


* Take the train to Baltimore
Goal for 2009 (Montreal to New York to Baltimore Penn Station)

2008 was a good year for me. I did more than I expected an achieved other goals that I that I didn't push up to my blog.

Wordabble -- 100,000 points

This morning, I passed a landmark that has been looming for a while and that is have found 100,000 points in the Fusion Bay's iPhone/iPod Touch game Wordabble. Earlier in the month, I achieved another milestone and that was to have played my first 100 games. As I think about these two milestones, I wonder what other milestones I can achieve by playing wordabble. I'll close this entry by thanking Jason and Adam for developing wordabble. 100,000 points later and 100 games later I still get my daily mental gymnastics through Wordabble. Thanks guys!

Wordabble

I thought I would blog about a new game available for the iPhone and iPod Touch which has me excited. The folks at Fusion Bay recently developed a game called Wordabble. Using the touch interface of the iPhone/iPod, you locate words hidden in a 5x5 block of letters. What I like about the application is it is easy to use, intuitive, fun and addictive. You can play the game in three modes, a timed game, a marathon session or you can download the game of the day and challenge your friends and family. At any time you can submit your scores to see how fair with other players. I like the way the application cleanly and smoothly presents the challenge of finding the words. I say check-it out!