2009's goals were all pretty reasonable and it worked out pretty well, so I'll make things a little crazier for 2010 and see what happens!

Personal

• Save over 20% of my post-tax income
• Double ithought revenue
• Pay off a big chunk of my mortgage so I can get rid of PMI and escrow requirements
• Take a big vacation somewhere new
• Make significant progress on programming my exercise tracking tool, and open it up to a public beta

Photography

• No more 365, and no more flickr uploading. Use a "stream" album here for uploading from my phone and one-off photos: ckdake.com/gallery/2010/stream
• Submit a photo to a DPChallenge challenge every week. I bought a paid subscription today, so I have a few more challenge choices each week.
• Print a few 8x10s or larger and frame them

Biking

• Do a few more century rides (hospitality, macc one love, tour de cure)
• Mountain bike at 10 new places
• Get points in a Pro Series event at the velodrome
• Do some team pursuit and madison racing at the velodrome
• 4day+ trip of mountain biking in another state
• Ride 150 miles in one day

Running

• What? Running. yeah... 30 min of running in 35F weather beats 2 hours on a bike in 35F and supposedly has similar overall fitness benefits, and should help out biking a little bit
• Get a sub-54 min qualifying time in a 10k before Peachtree Road Race registration
• Run the Peachtree Road Race
• Run the Atlanta Marathon

SugarCRM

• Build a new app deployment system for dev/stage/test of our production web properties
• Finish moving all system configuration into puppet (major things left to go: MySQL replication, automatic building application server groups using puppet stored configs)
• Finish removing all legacy hardware, legacy VLANs, legacy IP space, and legacy routing policies
• Implement password synchronization between dataenter LDAP and office AD systems
• Build a new application server logging system using Spread
• Build a Hadoop cluster and use it for generating real reports
• Go to Velocity 2010 and SugarCon 2010

I did a small writeup of 2008 last year, and set a few goals. Looking back, 2009 was a pretty big year and my goals were pretty reasonable! Here are some results:

In General

• ithought total revenue didn't double, but revenue from yearly hosting customers doubled which is currently the most important area for growth to me.
• ithought got a little more legit by becoming a registered Sole Proprietorship in Atlanta
• Saved 22% of my post-tax income
• Continued getting rid of things that I don't need by selling, donating, and giving away
• Almost finished furnishing my house, all that really remains is a mattress
• Switched from Linux+Chander+RAID for keeping things organized to Mac+Drobo+Things
• 69,527 visits to ckdake.com

Photography

• Started shooting in RAW on my DSLR, and started using Adobe Lightroom to process and upload things.
• Successfully completed "Project 365" - a photo a day, every day, for a year: ckdake 365
• 1995 photos uploaded to ckdake.com/gallery

Biking

• Got in the habit of eating a lot better which got my cholesterol levels from high to normal
• Full season of bike racing: Velodrome, SERC, GSC, and Snake Creek Gap. (Head to my bikes page and click on "Click here for 2009 Race Results" for the full season results.)
• 4 days of mountain biking in Santa Fe
• Lots of mountain biking including 18 new places, some listed here and a writeup of one weekend of riding
• Completed Six Gap Century, the "hardest" Century in Georgia, with over 11,000ft of climbing.
• Didn't ride more miles than 2008, but I rode almost 5x as much at the Velodrome and almost twice as much in the mountains compared to 2008.
• Got a bike fit at 55Nine on my old mountain bike to get measurements for a new mountain bike, and got fit on my track bike to squeeze a tiny bit more performance out of it.
• Ran the final (and highly successful) FM24 and afterwards, co-wrote the goodbye letter at 24.fastermustache.org
• Finally got a hard tail mountain bike, the likes of which have been on my mind for years: 2009 Independent Fabrication Steel Deluxe and sold my full-suspension bike.
• First 200k ride, on the Silver Comet with Jim and Paul

SugarCRM

• Second full year down!
• Spent a week in California going to SugarCON and Lake Tahoe
• Converted systems from VMWare to OpenVZ and built a management system for OpenVZ Containers, saving money in licensing and fitting more services on less hardware. writeup on VLANs in OpenVZ, HOWTO for moving MySQL slaves into OpenVZ containers
• Built out a new cluster in London using the provisioning system in California over a site-to-site VPN, and running fault-tolerant replicated LDAP and DNS
• Converted loadbalancers from NetScalers to clustered nginx servers using wackamole, saving money in needed upgrades and allowing much greater monitoring insight and tuning capabilities. Monitoring nginx with ZenOSS.
• Lead moving all private web allocations from the public internet to internal names and addresses, including lab testing of network device configurations including Hairpinning with a Cisco ASA.
• Attended no:sql(east) 2009 and learned some cool stuff that I've been tinkering with for data analysis (using Apache Pig).
• Ported my personal phone number to Sugar's account and consolidated from a work Blackberry and a Personal iPhone with 2 separate numbers to one iPhone 3GS with one phone number.

That's it for 2009, and my list of things for 2010 should be up in a post later today!

2008 ended with me watching Georgia Tech get completely obliterated by LSU at the Chic-Fil-A Bowl, but at least I had the new mini-camera that San gave me for Christmas to take some pictures. We made the best of it by joining the crowd in making paper airplanes and throwing them onto the field, and afterwards I met up with San at a party in Decatur to ring in the new year. Looking back over 2008, things were pretty good:

• 35,924 visits to ckdake.com
• 133,083 visits to fastermustache.org
• I uploaded 2353 photos to my photo gallery
• Saved/Invested 12% of my post-tax income
• Doubled ithought revenue over 2007 and invested in new hardware that should keep my new hardware costs in 2009 pretty minimal
• Finished 1 year working for SugarCRM and did a lot of really neat things. Much more neat things are planned for 2009!
• First whole year living in the house I own.
• Second trip to Europe
• Thanks to work travel, got Silver Medallion at Delta, and Silver VIP at Hilton.
• Got organized (see this for starts). Keeping up with things and what I need to do is now easy and doesn't get in the way

2008 was also my first real "year of the bicycle". I've been riding bikes for a long time including bike commuting, mountain biking, etc, but this year was a big step:

• Started to log rides using the ride log at singletracks.com. More details on equipment, mileage, etc, in a future post.
• First (and hopefully last) broken collar bone
• First "real" road bike
• First Century ride
• Another awesome FM24: fm.24.08

2009 is looking like it's going to be even better, and I have a list of things that I would like to see happen this year. I'd call them new years resolutions, but I'm on track to do all of these already and they're based on last year, so they are more like predictions than unrealistic goals! Heres the current list:

• double ithought revenue again
• save 15% of my post-tax income
• develop a RAW workflow for DSLR and stop shooting JPG
• eat more protein and fiber, and less saturated fat
• keep better track of nutrition/exercise/health (got a new scale and a blood pressure monitor for Christmas)
• Race at the velodrome and in the mountains with FM:Race
• Go on a week long mountain biking vacation
• Mountain bike at 10 places I've never mountain biked at before
• Ride 1000 more miles than 2008
• Continue getting rid of things that I don't use.
• Finish getting furniture for my house: bed, a few small tables, new filing cabinet
• Do a few house projects like fixing some things in the back yard, re-doing lighting in the living room, installing closet shelving

Nothing terribly newsworthy to report but a few things of note:

• Christmas came and went. Highlights are the sheer quantity of photography books and a Park Tool PCS-10. These knocked a few things off my wantlist (as did some amazon gift certificate things) but there's still lots on the list...
• I guess you could say it's my Christmas present to myself, I got a pair of Seagate 750GB hard drives for the desktop. The 2x300 RAID array was full and this was the pretty obvious next step. They're installed and I've got a few hundred GB to spare for more picture taking.
• I'm lucky to be alive. Last Friday night while biking from one place to another I had a run in with a pack of werewolves and a bear on ponce. I've got a bit of damage, the bike is mostly ok, and I'm an even stronger believer that helments save lives! There are some pictures if you want to see the details the day of. (The bruises hadn't shown up yet).
• School and work crank back up full speed on Monday. I'm ready. Bring it!
• And lastly, it's on. Corndogs and Videogames tomorrow night at my house.