Keith Kritselis - Creative, Adaptive, Problem Solver - What's New Blog

November Update...

12/3/2025

November was getting back in the groove... I was a little concerned about Thanksgiving and football game keeping me from a strong finish, but generally, it was mostly good and I got back on track. My health numbers continue to trend in the right direction.

My health goals for the last 6 months of 2025 are to average less than 2500 calories a day, sleep 7.5 hours, and beat 11,000 steps a day.

Currently, I am burning 3,151 cals a day. I have lost 15lbs in 10 weeks. I weighed in at 214 on the 28th... In Nov. I slept an average of 7h 23m up from 7h 21m in Oct. and well above my yearly average, and I averaged 12,355 steps per day in Nov. up from 11,648 in Oct.

A dream deferred...

11/17/2025

I was hoping to run the first sale for bandCam in the next month... But the band director I had been working with had to bow out... It was primarily a scheduling issue. One thing I didn't realize until recently, band program plan their fundraisers a year in advance. This meant that it probably never was going to this year... I can build an application quickly, but the Directors have to juggle and plan a lot more.

So, the plan now is to keep talking to band directors... learn more about their process and focus on going to the Texas Bandmasters Convention in July. There I can launch it with a big splash and sign up a bunch of bands to kick it off.

October Update

11/3/2025

October was a mess in many ways... in terms of meeting my goals, but generally, it was mostly good things that got me off track. I was able to rally the last week and my health numbers continue to trend in the right direction.

My health goals for the last 6 months of 2025 are to average less than 2500 calories a day, sleep 7.5 hours, and beat 11,000 steps a day.

Currently, I am burning 3,235 cals a day. I have lost 11lbs in 6 weeks. I weighed in at 218 on the 31st... In Oct. I slept an average of 7h 21m down from 7h 29m in Sept. and well above my yearly average, and I averaged 11,648 steps per day in Oct. down from 12,287 in Sept.

Sept Update

10/2/2025

September was busy. Had the film screenings, got another credit on my IMDB page. :)

My health goals for the last 6 months of 2025 are to average less than 2500 calories a day, sleep 7.5 hours, and beat 11,000 steps a day.

Currently, I am burning 3,295 cals a day. I have started another run at losing weight. I am down 5 pounds in the last two weeks to 225... The changes I am making are to do a 36 hour fast once a week and a fast mimicking diet one day a week staying under 1000 calories. In Aug. In Sept. I slept an average of 7h 29m up from from 7h 06m in Aug. and well above my yearly average, and I averaged 12,287 steps per day in Sept. up from 12,193 in Aug.

Some improvement, I am happy with my progress so far...

September 20th, 2025

9/20/2025

So... 10 years ago I was interviewed to be in a documentary... The doc was completed this year and was accepted it into the Fantastic Fest film festival... Woohoo!

I had an idea and pitched it to the director... a friend of mine... he has a lot of different clips that couldn't make it into the film... What if we made a player that allowed people to see some of them... better yet... What if we make name tags for the live screenings that each had a unique QR code on it and when they went to the link they got a custom experience of 3 different videos...

They would each get more of the film experience and they could scan other people's QR codes and see their videos... so it has a community building component.

He liked it, so I built an app to generate the name tags and the player... We had the first screening yesterday and it went great! I also wired the player to play 3 random videos directly... go check it out.

player.whenwewerelive.com

Aug Update

9/2/2025

August was a busy month, but I was still able to make progress on bandcam.io. It's close to be able to invite some bands into a closed beta. I should be talking to them already, but I wanted something to show with the conversation.

My health goals for the last 6 months of 2025 are to average less than 2500 calories a day, sleep 7.5 hours, and beat 11,000 steps a day.

Currently, I am burning 3,341 cals a day, up from 3,308 in July, I have gained 5 pounds during Aug, averaging 227... This is not good and I really need to figure out a better approach to daily meals. In Aug. I slept an average of 7h 06m down slightly from 7h 19m in July but well above my yearly average, and I averaged 12,193 steps per day in Aug. up from 11,907 in July.
Some improvement, some backsliding(weight), but I am happy with my progress so far...

July Update

8/6/2025

OK... My health goals for the last 6 months of 2025 are to average less than 2500 calories a day, sleep 7.5 hours, and beat 11,000 steps a day.

Currently, I am burning 3,300 cals a day, up from 3,161 in Jan., I have lost 10 pounds during July based on the calorie restriction... In July I slept an average of 7h 19m up from 6h 11m in Jan., and I averaged 11,907 steps per day in July up from 10,548.

I am happy with my progress so far...

getting the MVP up and running...

7/22/2025

a setback, but still I persist...

7/20/2025

Well, the last 10 days have been a struggle... mostly around house stuff which included the AC going out, an attic pipe leak which caused significant water damage, an outlet burning out taking out power to half of the second floor, and a bunch of storage unit issues... all adding to about 11k in unexpected expenses. :(

It is mostly resolved and it has resulted in a long over due spring cleaning... so that's good.

Right before all that mess began, I had decided to focus my side project dev time on 2 main projects. One software and one game... more on those as soon as I have something to show... but I have been slowly making progress on one of them even with the interruptions.

6 months down... 6 to go.

7/1/2025

I decided to split the yearly goals into 2 chunks that felt more meaningful. 6 months is enough time to accomplish decent sized goals, but not so long that you can put this off till the end of the year. My birthday is July 5th which is a little past the 6month mark, but a birthday is a meaningful moment in a life.

How did I do with birthday goals?

It's a mixed bag. I gave myself a score of 50 out of 100.

In the life category, on the positive side, I am averaging 10,900 steps a day for the year so far and I have increased my time asleep on average by almost 30 mins... Not close to the goal, but improvement. On weight loss, I put on weight and it wasn't muscle... and I did not meaningfully increase my income, although I did review my finances and cancelled some subscriptions which meant keeping more of our earnings.

I did not take a Python class like I wanted to, but I did spend a lot more time writing/working with Python... so I gave myself a partial.

We didn't leave the state, but we were able to get away and have a couple adventures. :)

I logged 2 projects under the "Create" category, but frankly I made over a dozen... This has been where my focus has been this year... and I am kicking ass! :)

We went to a few new restaurants, but half as many as I wanted to...

So, I am making some adjustments for the second half of the year.

I am shifting my focus away from tracking weight and towards tracking calories.... I have never been a fan, but weight tracking is downstream from the problem of me eating too many calories.

I have been building a bunch of side projects but few had any meaningful revenue plan. This is going to change...while I still leave myself time for fun side projects.

I just finished a great marketing book.... I am going to reread it and 3 others to into the mindset of promoting products.