{"id":5603,"date":"2025-07-01T05:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:24:37","slug":"a-mid-year-non-work-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5603","title":{"rendered":"A mid-year (non-work) checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re half-way through 2025, which means it\u2019s a good time to check how I\u2019m doing against some of the goals I set for the year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Read more<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 750px;\" alt=\"screenshot of my goodreads profile showing covers of the books I've read this year\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-06-30-checkpoint\/books.jpg?raw=true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to read more this year. <\/p>\n<p>It feels like this one deserves a tick &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/dalelane\">my Goodreads profile<\/a> says I\u2019m on my 24th book for the year. More than that, reading has become a habit again &#8211; I\u2019m making time to read every week instead of it just being a thing I do on holiday.<\/p>\n<h3>Move more<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 750px;\" alt=\"screenshot of my iPhone Health screen, showing my number of steps per day\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-06-30-checkpoint\/movement.jpg?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to be more active &#8211; this is a continuation of <a href=\"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5367\">last year&#8217;s attempt to get my health back on track<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019ve found it easier to do this as the weather has gotten better, overall I\u2019ve done what I hoped to &#8211; with my phone estimating that I\u2019ve walked and ran an average of over 6 miles a day this year. Diet has been a more challenging thing to maintain, so a mixed bag on the health front overall. <\/p>\n<h3>Play more video games<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 750px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-06-30-checkpoint\/backloggd.jpg?raw=true\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 750px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-06-30-checkpoint\/games.jpg?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so this one sounds a bit weird. I don\u2019t mean spend more time playing video games (although that\u2019s not a bad goal!). My goal this year was to use the time I spend playing games to play a wider variety of games, and not just resort to jumping into yet another Call of Duty multiplayer map every time. <\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019ve done a good job of this &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backloggd.com\/u\/dalelane\">my Backloggd profile<\/a> says I\u2019ve played 79 different games this year. That is more than I would\u2019ve guessed. Some have been high-profile AAA titles (I loved Doom: The Dark Ages and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle). Some have been interesting smaller titles (like Iconoclasts, Far: Lone Sails, Laika: Aged Through Blood, and Katana Zero). And some have been a bit weird (like Kentucky Route Zero, and Twelve Minutes). I&#8217;ve also (finally!) gotten around to discovering classics like Borderlands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re half-way through 2025, which means it\u2019s a good time to check how I\u2019m doing against some of the goals I set for the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5896,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}