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Achievements: - Dropped out of college and accepted a full time offer - Became the new lead for the security interest group at work - Attended AWS re:Invent

Achievements: - Dropped out of college and accepted a full time offer - Became the new lead for the security interest group at work - Attended AWS re:Invent for the first time - Moved into my own place for the first time - Started playing around with the stock market - Visited Abu Dhabi, London, and Iceland for the first time - Turned 21 years old a few weeks ago, I can finally go to bars and clubs now - Finally finished and pushed my re-designed personal website (an endeavor that I started last Fall) - Entered into my first relationship - Sub-achievement: 2 Chainz has a song called 100 Joints with the line > You need your passport for our second date I decided to beat him at his own game and for our first date I flew us to Montréal for the weekend which I'd also consider an achievement Fallbacks: - Last year I vowed to read more this year - I picked up and finished a book in the Spring, but haven't read much more since that - I used to constantly work on new side projects, I just haven't had a lot of time for them recently - After living with friends from college for the last ~3 years, living alone is a little lonely. I do enjoy the time alone, but I've also moved to a new city where I don't have much of a social network Edit: - Achievements: -- I love to fly. Last year I did something like 39 flights. This year I'll do 41 flights. A new record for me, if not a significant one. Note that these are flights, not reservations. So if my trip includes a layover, it counts as two. I love flying to the extent that given a direct trip and a trip with a < 1 hr layover, I'll pick the latter. I love each flight. Taking off. Landing. Cruising at 35,000 ft. Turbulence, the more the better. I want more cumulative time in the air. - Fallbacks -- From August to December (and extending into January 2017), I've only been at home 1-2 weeks a month which has caused a bit of strain on my relationship. Edit: To whoever left and then deleted a comment asking if I considered the date an achievement because of the cost and suggested that I may have missed that's needed to form a relationship: I'm not entirely sure why I consider it an achievemnt. It's most likely related to the cost yes. I think it's because whereas previously (as a student) I would need to think about finances, I now have the money where I can do things like this and not worry about going hungry for the next month. As far as the relationship aspect, prior to the date we spent 10 days traveling in Iceland as friends after meeting in person a total of three times. The purpose of the date wasn't specifically to build on the relationship, but more to do something ridiculous and romantic.

aerovistae 10y ago
That'd feel pretty pushy to me, offering to fly my date out of the country the first time we go out together. Like, did you get separate hotel rooms, or...? First date is "I don't even know you yet" territory, I would be a little hesitant to go international.
- citruspi 10y ago
  So for a little back story. We met on Tinder while we were in different cities and talked relatively frequently. In January I moved to her city (not for her, I've previously lived here). Between January and May we met a total of three times. She's currently over here for school, but when she left for summer break, she invited me to visit her at her family's place. I suggested that instead of doing that, we travel somewhere else - we ended up going to Iceland for 10 days as friends. Two weeks later we went on our first date. So we definitely knew each other - at this point we'd spent 10 days traveling in a foreign country (albeit after only meeting three times). I don't know if I'd say we knew each other _well_ - but we trusted each other. Edit: And nah, one room. I'd have been happy to get another one, but we'd also split hotel rooms while traveling in Iceland, so she was fine with it.
  - aerovistae 10y ago
    Gotcha that makes more sense with extra context.
  - digitalshankar 10y ago
    What's the expenditure for 10 days in Iceland? Did you pay the travel ticket for her? If no, how much money she spent on you and how much money you spent on her? (* asking the real question here *)
    - citruspi 10y ago
      > What's the expenditure for 10 days in Iceland? Flights, hotel and Airbnb reservations, renting an SUV for 7 days, tickets for the ferry to Westfjords, etc. it was about $3500 for two people. That doesn't include food, tickets for local attractions, etc. > Did you pay the travel ticket for her? If no, how much money she spent on you and how much money you spent on her? Nope. We pretty much split Iceland evenly, we just went there as friends. I fully covered Montréal because it was my idea and I didn't expect her to contribute. That ran me about $1200 for air fare and a night in the hotel for the two of us. I fully covered that along with cab rides, food, tickets for local attractions, etc. The only thing she paid for was a coffee while we were waiting to board our flight.

aerovistae 10y ago

That'd feel pretty pushy to me, offering to fly my date out of the country the first time we go out together. Like, did you get separate hotel rooms, or...? First date is "I don't even know you yet" territory, I would be a little hesitant to go international.

citruspi 10y ago
So for a little back story. We met on Tinder while we were in different cities and talked relatively frequently. In January I moved to her city (not for her, I've previously lived here). Between January and May we met a total of three times. She's currently over here for school, but when she left for summer break, she invited me to visit her at her family's place. I suggested that instead of doing that, we travel somewhere else - we ended up going to Iceland for 10 days as friends. Two weeks later we went on our first date. So we definitely knew each other - at this point we'd spent 10 days traveling in a foreign country (albeit after only meeting three times). I don't know if I'd say we knew each other _well_ - but we trusted each other. Edit: And nah, one room. I'd have been happy to get another one, but we'd also split hotel rooms while traveling in Iceland, so she was fine with it.
- aerovistae 10y ago
  Gotcha that makes more sense with extra context.
- digitalshankar 10y ago
  What's the expenditure for 10 days in Iceland? Did you pay the travel ticket for her? If no, how much money she spent on you and how much money you spent on her? (* asking the real question here *)
  - citruspi 10y ago
    > What's the expenditure for 10 days in Iceland? Flights, hotel and Airbnb reservations, renting an SUV for 7 days, tickets for the ferry to Westfjords, etc. it was about $3500 for two people. That doesn't include food, tickets for local attractions, etc. > Did you pay the travel ticket for her? If no, how much money she spent on you and how much money you spent on her? Nope. We pretty much split Iceland evenly, we just went there as friends. I fully covered Montréal because it was my idea and I didn't expect her to contribute. That ran me about $1200 for air fare and a night in the hotel for the two of us. I fully covered that along with cab rides, food, tickets for local attractions, etc. The only thing she paid for was a coffee while we were waiting to board our flight.