Posted by: Mark | February 12, 2022

Resolution Update 6

As the snow outside melts, I’m hoping for a burst of energy in my life.

It isn’t giving me any signs it’s approaching.

1. Lose 15 pounds. I’ve been eating like a pig all week and, after skipping weigh-in last week, I forgot about it today. I’d been eating all morning and, when I got on the scale, it said I lost 2.4 pounds, 1.8 for the year.

2. Run 100 miles. 1.1 miles on the treadmill. No change for five weeks.

3. Read 25 works: Four:
Tamburlaine, Part One; Tamburlaine, Part Two; The Jew of Malta; The House on the Borderland.

4. Read 150 Lovecraftian short stories. 31
Brian Lumley (6): The Second Wish, A Thing About Cars, Rising with Surtsey, Big C, The Fairground Horror, Beneath the Moors.
Clark Ashton Smith (12): The Invisible City, The Immortals of Mercury, The Empire of the Necromancers, The Seed from the Sepulcher, The Second Interment, The Double Shadow, Ubbo-Sathla, The Plutonian Drug, The Supernumerary Corpse, The Colossus of Ylourgne, The God of the Asteroid, The Mandrakes
Lord Dunsany (7): The Sword of Welleran, The Fall of Babbulkund, The Kith of the Elf-Folk, Ghosts, The Highwaymen, In the Twilight, The Whirlpool.
Algernon Blackwood (6): The Deferred Appointment, The Prayer, Strange Disappearance of a Baronet, Imagination, The Secret, The Lease.

5. Watch 20 new movies from lists. One.
20 Million Miles to Earth

6. Send out 100 manuscripts. Three.

7. Write 50,000 words.

4,686 Fiction
96 Nonfiction
4,782 Total

8. Produce 75 artwork. 15.

9. Three video or animation projects. 0.

10. 550 blog posts. This is #66.


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