2020 Goals final check-in

So on the whole, my goals related to production of new fannish stuff were all fulfilled and then some, but all the others were not. I'm pretty satisfied with that result though.

• Convert old podfics to use AO3 work skin
  • 1/8/20 In progress. I've done several, and used the work skin on all my new ones since then
  • 3/11/20 No further progress on old podfics but all new posts have used the skins.
  • Nope, abandoned the old podfics to their fates, but all (and there have been MANY) of my new ones have been posted with skins
• Load all mp3 files to the hosting that brickgrass set up for me, and use AO3's new audio markup tag
  • 1/8/20 In progress. Complete on the same set of existing and new podfics as the work skin
    
  • 3/11/20 Again, no further progress on old podfics but all new ones are uploaded. However, as of yesterday, the domain was not responding. I contacted brickgrass and he says he fixed it, but immediate check still didn't work. Will check again tomorrow; hoping it's just DNS propagation delay.
  • Also nope, as above, old ones left as-is, new ones hosted with brickgrass
• Try Audacity again
  • 1/8/20 In progress. I completed one simple podfic using Audacity, but didn't learn any features beyond deleting unwanted audio yet. I'm not sure how far I'll get with this, since the current version of Audacity is incompatible with the already-released next version of MacOS and I probably want to upgrade my computer soonish
  • 3/11/20 I have continued to use Audacity for new podfics and I like it a lot. I've pretty much switched over entirely, except for when I need specific features that GarageBand has. It turns out that the NEW COMPUTER (!!!!!) still runs Audacity although it does require a tiny bit of fiddling.
  • I've pretty much entirely switched over. I haven't even opened GarageBand in months. I think I last used it for the trans!Draco HP podfic, to add snake sound effects but I really only did that for the later chapters to be consistent with the early ones, because I had learned by then how to do it in Audacity
• Make a meta post/podfic about my experiences switching from GarageBand to Audacity
  • 3/11/20 Still pending.
  • Lol nope. Is this starting to sound like a trend?
• organize my bookmarks & add tags to them
  • 1/8/20 Hah, haha, ha. My bookmark list has only grown, wild and tag-free.
  • 3/11/20 Same but more so.
  • And yet more so. I have started using "To Podfic" occasionally but if the story doesn't actually make it to my spreadsheet it's unlikely to mean much
• 200k of podfic...actually, let's make this goal 250k
  • 1/8/20 In progress. I've got several podfic WIPs already. I finished 2019 with 29:53:35 28:30:28 hours of podfic, 261104 250115 words. SO close to 30 hours! I made this goal in Nov at 200K because I wanted something I'd definitely reach, but I think I can easily surpass that. So let's give it a shot.
  • 3/11/20 current totals 11:02:55, 90123
  • L. O. Fucking L. I made um...just a smidge under 49 hours of podfic, 413K words, 121 works, in 2020. One big reason was Voiceteam in May, but also, being at home all day with the computer and mic RIGHT THERE means a lot of opportunity to just edit a few minutes whenever I need a break
• 5k of writing
  • YES! In a huge surprise to Jan2020!Me, almost all of it is MDZS which I hadn't even really known was a thing back then. 17K-ish total, some of it cowritten so I don't know how many of the words were mine vs other people's, but there's approx 5K words that were ALL ME
• Get "Dragon of Chaos" going somewhere
  • No, I wrote 1k more words on it back in Jan 2020 and then abandoned it again
• resume voice lessons
  • Between pandemic and my voice teacher moving to the west coast, this did not happen
• audition for solo
  • Choir concerts canceled due to pandemic, solos not a thing that was possible
• reach 150 works (200 as a stretch goal)
  • 1/8/20 So far I'm at 115 revealed, 8 unrevealed
  • 3/11/20 141 revealed, 2 unrevealed. I begin to think 200 isn't even going to be hard.
  • Um my total currently stands at 258. Admittedly several of those were posted since 1/1/21 due to Voiceteam Mystery Box but it was definitely above 200 before that started
• podfic bingo blackout
  • Only about 2/3 of the card filled, but what the heck. at least there is a bingo
• read more actual books (back to the non-cis non-straight non-white non-male challenge)
  • 3/11/20 I have read bupkis.
  • Still bupkis. Maybe ten books all year but that's probably a generous estimate
• attend GALA conference
  • 3/11/20 Still haven't registered (budget reasons)...but there's a decent chance that the whole conference will be canceled/postponed due to COV-19
  • It was indeed canceled