These are some meaningless numbers.

• Books read: 34 (goal 50)
  1. White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
  4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  6. The Camera by Ansel Adams
  7. Learning to See Creatively by Bryan Peterson
  8. Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick
  9. Black Panther .1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  10. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  11. The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
  12. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
  13. The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
  14. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
  15. The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
  16. The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
  17. The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
  18. Continental Pilsner by David Miller
  19. The Sandman, Vol. 8: The World’s End by Neil Gaiman
  20. The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
  21. The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
  22. Brewing Local: American-Grown Beer by Stan Hieronymus
  23. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  24. Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
  25. Misery by Stephen King
  26. Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) by Jim Butcher
  27. Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2) by Jim Butcher
  28. The Postman by David Brin
  29. Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children’s crusade, a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut
  30. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
  31. Breakfast of Champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday! by Kurt Vonnegut
  32. El Deafo by Cece Bell
  33. Digger by Ursula Vernon
  34. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Miles run: 124.57 (goal 100)
• Meditation sessions: 47 (goal 100)
• Commits (on github): 445
• Deployments to Wikimedia production: 377
• Trick-or-treaters on Halloween: 229
• Gallons of beer brewed: 70 (14x5 gallon batches)
• Medals won for brewing: 3
  • Gold - Colorado State Fair - Mild
  • Gold - Rocky Mountain Homebrew Challenge - Hefeweizen
  • Bronze - Hoppy Halloween - Mild
• Beer competitions entered: 3
• Beers entered into competitions: 8
• Body fat % difference: -0.2
• Raw photos added to my computer: 2,995
• Roughly, number of photos taken: 12,782 (via exiftool -ShutterCount)
• FCC licenses received: 2 (technician and general)

I felt pretty powerless against the rising tide of horribleness that seemingly permeated every aspect of 2017 – that is not captured by these numbers.