A few observations…maybe for 2025 I will do more real-time analysis so I don’t have to do it all at the end of the year. Any given week doesn’t take that much time, but doing 52 weeks (plus 2 days) takes a lot of time. Theoretically using spreadsheets means you can just sum the cells with a certain entry but…due to some choices I made early on in time tracking that are now habits this doesn’t really work. So there was a lot of manual tallying. Oh well.

I do not work that much. Well, on some days I do. On a “normal” workday I’m at my desk at 7:45 a.m. and end the work day at 5 p.m., or later, and often do 30-60 minutes at night. But for various reasons I don’t get a lot of normal workdays. On Monday this week, for instance, I stopped at 3:30 to pick up the 10-year-old and take him to the pediatrician. Then he really wanted to go to his ninja class, so I drove him out there to meet B (nanny), who was there with the 5-year-old for an earlier class. I got home at 5:30. Those would have been work hours — I had childcare — but with 5 kids there is often something. It is what it is, but I need to be careful about protecting longer stretches of deep work time when I can get it. I averaged about 32 hours/week for the year. For what it’s worth, Tuesday was my longest average workday, but I think this is skewed by Monday being more likely to be a holiday.

My sleep was absolutely consistent with what it has been for the last decade. 7.33 hours/day. Every year I’ve tracked has been 7.3-7.4. Guess this is my set point! No surprise that I slept more on weekends than weekdays, but curiously Sat and Sun were both 7.68 hours apiece. (Tuesday was my lowest — 7.08.)

Choir, as a hobby, turns out to be very seasonal. I was in choir practices, or practicing music on my own, for 31.5 hours in December, and did about 6 hours of performances that month. My total for July was 0!

I spent 128.25 hours on puzzles. I worked out with my trainer 44 times. I ran 122 times. That feels a little low, but my logs reminded me that there were 7 weeks of 0s there after my back incident. I biked 9 times as an actual bike ride (there were a lot of other “bikes with kids in driveway” kind of rides). I did yoga exactly once — on the beach as part of BLP live. That may be all I do it in 2025 too. Oh well!