David J. Sokol

Stats Roundup 2010

Well, 2010 is over. I started with a spreadsheet with one row, now I’ve got 366. (One row for headers.) Lets break it down, hammer style.

Travel

I traveled via plane 9 of 12 months this year. I visited the following cities:

• 4x Bermuda
• 2x Buffalo
• 1x Denver
• 1x San Diego
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Athens
• 1x Orlando

This also marked my first time traveling out of the country, to Bermuda. I spent about 3 weeks working there this year, and it’s really expensive. I cannot recommend it to anyone, unless you’re traveling there on a cruise.

Drinking

Drinking was at an all time high. I accomplished my goal of drinking for 365 days straight on August 10th, 2010; this taught me that I have stupid goals. I drank a total of 12,494 ounces of beer. This corresponds to about 1,040 12oz beers or 2.9 beers per day. On the liquor (or quicker) side of things, I had 1,370 ounces of mixed drinks and 118 shots. My liver has started up an online petition against me, but it won’t matter because online petitions don’t change shit. There are some drinking moment’s I’d like to highlight:

• ComicCon 2010 - I actually lost track of my alcohol intake during ComicCon and for a few weeks after. When you drink that much, you forget how to make spreadsheets.
• Mellow Mushroom (Emory) - We go for Trivia every week and I average between 1 to 3 pitchers. Dirt cheap pitchers will do that.
• Cinco De Mayo - 7 shots of Tequila on top of 1 pitcher of Bud Light. That’s how we do.

It should also be noted that the figures quoted are not exact. Drinking in excess blurs the memory to the point where recording anything other than “lots” would be pointless. There were 9 or 10 such days last year.

Health

My number of yearly pushups incrased 27%, from 2,643 to 3,374. Everything else went down. A measly 1,800 crunches, 30.3 miles run/walked, and 33 p90x workouts. This probably explains why my average weight went from 185 to 192.

Professionalism/Code

I was later than usual, from 6 minutes late to 10 minutes late. I directly attribute this to my shrinking job satisfaction, and you can see a significant increase in year-end tardiness. I’ve been writing more custom code, with 627 github commits on my primary project and about 50 commits on other projects. I used four different source code control systems in 2010: VSS, TFS2008, TFS2010, and Git. Git is by far the winner.

Next Year

One goal: Create. We’ll see how that manifests itself.