OT: Your accomplishments in 2013 and plans for 2014

[Mike Parker]

On 12/12/2013 4:44 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
 > Ok, so who's next who wants to share?
 >

2013

The biggest thing for me is that the hot dog shop I opened in at the end 
of October of last year really took off this past spring. We got a great 
review in a local expat magazine and a number of Korean "power bloggers" 
at naver.com and elsewhere have driven a lot of traffic our way. We've 
done no active marketing whatsoever. It's all been word-of-mouth. The 
guy from the magazine heard about us that way. It's hard to find really 
good hot dog shops in Seoul, so that's been a big plus on our side.

And on a personal note, I "won" NaNoWriMo. This was my first year 
participating. I thought it was going to be difficult, but it was so 
much fun that I hardly broke a sweat. This was a very big deal for me. 
I've always loved writing, but I hadn't written any fiction in over ten 
years. And I had never written anything novel-length before. It was very 
liberating.

2014

I need to finish a project in D! I've got a dozen D projects in various 
states of completion just bit-rotting on my hard drive. My biggest goal 
in 2014 is to put all of my attention on *one* of them and get it done.

To facilitate that, I also want to grow the hot dog business somewhat. 
We're planning to expand the menu and I'm hoping that, coupled with some 
promotional activities we're considering, will bring in enough new 
business for us to hire a couple of regular employees so I can take some 
time off. Right now, I'm only off two days in a month. And I still have 
a handful of classes to teach, besides. I need more coding time!

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