I think the weather in Vancouver best describes my brain when it comes to my blog the last couple of weeks.  Of course, at the turn of the year, you want to start new things, get writing, get blogging, get something - anything.  But I haven't found the time nor the desire.

While I try and sort out my head and exercise my writing muscles, here is a photo I took this evening.


I headed out into the night with Travis and we got a few shots in.

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New Years Eve was very cool this year. I headed over to Alan and Erin's place and we had a few too many with Jim, Todd, and Elizabeth and played some Playstation. The evening was casual and we just blabbered about whatever it was that popped into people's minds to converse about. The one thing that struck me about the whole night was people kept forgetting that it was New Years. I was thinking about it today and realized that New Years was more important a long time ago. In recent memory, my friends get together to bring in the new year but there seems to be a collective forgetfulness. I suppose it is because we enjoy hanging out with each other so much and the actual ticking over the midnight hour becomes less so. But I do recall a long time ago I used to hit pots and pans in the front yard of my parents house. It seemed like such a big deal. We prepared for the new year by getting noise makers and whatnot. Maybe I just miss the act of making a big deal about another year rolling over. 2009 to 2010 should make a return to those days. What kinds of noise makers do you use? Or am I just old fashioned?
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2008 is now over and 2009 is upon me, slapping my psyche to make sure I do better this year.  In order to determine how I have done this past 12 months, I have decided to review my 2008 resolutions.  I hope it isn't like watching a traffic accident but, regardless, let's watch together, shall we?

According to my post back in January of 2008, I was going to:

Continue Writing

I am happy to report this has gone quite well.  I have written almost daily (not necessarily on this blog, thought - and I do intend on making improvements) and have put together a few more poetry collections that I still need to finalize.  Surprisingly, this takes more time than I thought it would but it is enjoyable for me.  Oh, and I helped write a book so I can add that to my list.

Swim At Least Three Times A Week

This was going very well for some time and, I think, was accomplished for most of the year.  I fell off the band bandwagon in the fall, unfortunately.  January 6th is already scheduled as a return to the water so fear not.

Drink Less Beer

This has been quite the year for beer.  I have almost cut it entirely out of my diet to the point where a single beer tells my body that it doesn't want that single beer.  2009 will see me eliminate beer from my diet.

Read More!

This has been an awesome year for reading.  I have read somewhere in the realm of 50 books this year.  The most notable of them were autobiographies and biographies of the Star Trek cast (yes, very nerdy, but you can shut up now).  I only have a couple left and I will be a virtual library of information about the original cast of the Star Trek franchise.  Now, if I could only remember to open my mail on a weekly basis.

Hmm.  It appears I almost made my entire list from last year.  Should I do one for 2009?  For some reason, I haven't a huge desire to make resolutions outside of the ones I did last year.  Perhaps in a few days I will make a new list but, I think I have done a bang up job in 2008.  More praise for me!

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