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New year's resolutions check-in:
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star and @Tollund_Man4?
Good blog post dude.
Work: Started writing my thesis last week. A bit overwhelmed with experiments/planning. Need to do less each day.
Fitness: 11 hours last week, had a great workout this morning. HRV is still a little depressed so gotta make sure I take my recovery days easy.
Intellectual Stuff: Limiting myself to one YouTube video and one blog post a day. Focusing on US history in English, and reading fiction in the Spanish and Italian. In the spirit of Cal Newport trying to only do one of these each day (Spanish, Italian, history reading) and give my full attention to it.
Finances: Expenses are really low this month. As detailed in the main thread, sold quite a bit of my index funds and stocks and put the money into a combination of American oil stocks and CDs. I exaggerated a little the scale of the sale: I still kept most of my shipping and rail stocks, as well as Ebay, Takeda, and ADM, the later of which are a Pharma and farming company respectively. Parent's still haven't figured out how to transfer me shares, but they are going to the brokerage next Tuesday. Once they do and there is more clarity on the Iran situation I'm going to buy my friend's 2005 Toyota Camry for $1,000 or so.
Dating: Met a girl at my friend's thesis defense party and we got coffee on Sunday. First time I've had fun on a first date for a while. She's moving to the UK for a PhD in the fall, but we'll see where it goes in the next few weeks.
Tarot: Didn't do this week.
Socializing: Saw Hoppers last night, Workout Wednesday, and my friend Simon is coming to stay this week Screen time: 1.4 hours.
Mental health: have been very anxious for some reason (probably overwhelmed with different goals), so want to work on this. Taking Ashwaganda helps, but also think I need to stay away from arguing with people on the internet.
How are the shipping stocks doing so far? I've been curious about that
I'm up 200% on $ZIM, which I bought for the Dividends back in 2023. They are supposed to be sold at $35/share at the end of the year to a German shipping company so will make even more money if I don't chicken out and sell before then. My other large position is $SB which mainly runs a Panama Canal route. They're doing pretty well too. I also have $KEK which makes river barges for oil transport and $TNK, both of which have been getting bodied by the war.
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