What’s you obscure low key achievement this year?

Bought an apartment with a mortgage with support of the state (they paid the half of a price) for my family. Not the greatest, but the cheapest out there, so there's many caveats, but we're finally home 🏠

Won't necessarily go over well on Lemmy but still want to brag a bit. My company got bought by salesforce, life changing for my kids' kids (let alone me and my wife). Had a meeting this week with Marx Benioff and he said "I dont care about that i want to hear that v_krishna thinks" and then spent 15 minutes on the spot answering his questions.

Ripped a 20 second long fart in bed a month or two ago.

Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.

When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.

Was a unique achievement for me.

Managed to get to the stage with my job, where I just kinda resent having to go to work because I'd rather be doing other things, as opposed to deeply hating it because I'm freaking out constantly. This is a big step for me, I had to leave my last career after crashing and burning, due undiagnosed ADHD. Had a couple of years off getting myself sorted out and correctly medicated, and started back in a new role, but with a genuine question about whether I could have a professional career again.

The first couple of years were really hard, just so stressful and I needed to see a therapist at points to keep going. But I did, and now in my 3rd year I've hit a very manageable level of stress that seems normal and bearable. Interestingly, this isn't because I finally started being organised and stopped leaving things to the last minute. Nope, I just embraced my terrible work habits, stopped beating myself up about them, and changed my expectations for work so that paperwork was minimized and doing all my prep at the last minute was fine. Much less mentally horrific for me and, despite 'lowering my standards' the quality of my work probably increased, because I was doing what I could actually achieve not pushing to do something amazing that never materialised.

Wish I had the exact number (my brain likes to count everything), but I've done like 100 flip turns at the pool this year. Back in high school I'd do over 100 a day. I've been telling myself for a decade "this is the year I'll do flip turns every lap by x-date", of course I set off this year with the same lie. And of course I'm not doing them on every lap, but at one point I did my first in over 20 years, and then I did a couple in a row, and then I realized how much less time I have to focus on such a trivial thing, but it was the act of exercising itself that I was benefiting from, not perfectly recreating who I was half a lifetime ago.

I've kept going to the pool this year, and I've improved myself by doing that, I'm not going to be as fast or skilled or fluid as I used to be, I'm probably never going to flip turn every turn again, but I'm not going to get discouraged by not meeting my own goals that I'd set while looking in a rose tinted mirror.

Could also phrase it as "swam over 100 km (really a bit impressive amount of distance, 1.5-2.5 km per day one of two days a week) listening to the same 4"the dollop", "god awful movies" "citation needed" and "no such thing as a fish" episodes on repeat (because I kept forgetting to bring my swim headphones and their transfer cable to the same place at the same time)

I've found a giant chicken of the woods polypore on an oak while hiking with three cats. A week later the oak broke apart and was blocking the street for me on my bike.

Got my hair cut this year. It was growing for years, and shocked everyone around me that I cut it. I'm going to save so much money on shampoo

Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It's been transformational. This year, I made time for the 'good' car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I'm at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It's a good feeling.

Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it's running like a champ again.

Since nobody gives a fuck about my true amazing feats, I'll brag about something more relatable: I did my laundry a few times this year. Major achievement if you know me.

I finally read 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

Finally starting to un pigeon hole my career by expanding to other technologies.

I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.

I drove 150 miles at highspeed on a highway at night through a thunderstorm during a nervous breakdown. That was just the return drive home.

I dispersed (free) camped around my country for the whole year

Got in the top 3% for average weekly steps for someone in my age group (40-49)

Managed to make two cats tolerate each other - one is keen on chasing, one is shy and coward. They are bad at signalling play - so sometimes they go too rough, but now they coexist mostly in peace.

I found my major and am returning to school for cyber security.

Got some boxes and stuff to organize things in my kitchen and other rooms. It feels so nice not having to roam through messy piles in order to find things!

For 1000 completions in Pirate Solitaire and working towards 2000.

After weeks of debugging and a million things tried, finally fixed a bug that ended up being an off-by-one error. Had to turn < into <=. Debugging embedded devices can be hard...

edit: the chaos caused by the error was of course completely unrelated to the process, caused a full watchdog timeout