{"id":1834,"date":"2007-12-31T06:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2007-12-29T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T02:51:46","slug":"looking-back-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back, Looking Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, I made the big mistake of posting my “resolutions<\/a>” – which weren’t resolutions at all, since I don’t do them; they were goals<\/em> – in this space.<\/p>\n

Or was it<\/em> a mistake?<\/p>\n

Let’s look back (answers in blue<\/font>):<\/p>\n

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  1. I\u2019m in vastly better shape than I was a year ago. Now is no time to backslide; joining the \u201cY\u201d (for the kids and I) in about two weeks (<\/strong>Did it!<\/strong>)<\/font><\/li>\n
  2. <\/font>In a similar vein, now that I\u2019m working in downtown, I will be well able to bike to work when the weather improves, especially in the summer (when I don\u2019t have to drive kids to school and I can get as early a start as I want). That\u2019s the goal for the summer; bike it to work every day weather permits. (I did it, and it was very successful More below<\/strong>).<\/font><\/li>\n
  3. My daughter has had a blinding flash of epiphany re school in this past three months. Need to facilitate my son\u2019s having the same thing (It’s just gotten better for my daughter – it’s been a great year for Bun. She really bloomed at school, and in her summer job. Still working on Zam, but there’s early promise<\/strong>.<\/font>).<\/li>\n
  4. My house is the next priority. Going to improve the overall level of housekeeping quite a bit. Even if I have to pay for the help. (OK, not everything <\/em>can be a raging success. Things improved incrementally, though. It’s an “opportunity” for ’08<\/font><\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  5. Also re the house – I\u2019m going to build that patio I\u2019ve been yammering about for the past two years. (Ummmm…
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    \n<\/font><\/strong>Will work on it this summer<\/font><\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  6. In many ways, the job I have now is the one I\u2019ve been hoping to find ever since I left StorageTek in 2000; I am, at least nominally, in a leadership position. I\u2019m going to make the most of that in the coming year. (So far so good<\/font><\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  7. The blog – there are a number of things I\u2019ve been dying to do with this blog as it approaches its fifth anniversary, in about a month. More later (Ditto<\/font><\/strong>).<\/li>\n
  8. Also – after nine months of thinking about it, I\u2019m going to try to get my podcast site finally <\/em>up and on the air in the coming weeks. There\u2019s a technical issue I have to work out – but it\u2019s finally doable (Life is what happens when you’re making other plans, sometimes<\/font><\/strong>).<\/li>\n
  9. As re the NARN – well, the status quo isn\u2019t half bad. We\u2019re starting to see how well the show\u2019s actually been doing; continuing to clobber the competition in head-to-head radio combat. Next year will bring even more fun stuff (Very true!<\/font><\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    OK, so on to the goals for ’08:<\/p>\n

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    1. The bike thing: Start earlier. Indeed, try to start biking to work this spring, before school lets out for the summer, and try to continue after school starts in the fall, to extend my biking season ideally from April through October.\u00a0 (Alternate option:\u00a0 gain a LOT of weight, so I can easily conceal an S&W Model 29 or an M1911A1 or something.\u00a0 Health vs. Firepower…firepower vs. health…oh, screw it, I’ll take the health).<\/li>\n
    2. That’s gonna involve the Great White Whale of my personal life; getting my kids to get up and reliably get their own butts to school in the morning. It’s going to take some work.<\/li>\n
    3. Continue Bun’s great success in school. It’s been a huge, and gratifying, turnaround for her.<\/li>\n
    4. Get Zam to turn the corner.<\/li>\n
    5. Work hard on enacting True North’s <\/em>goals for the year – of which much more later.<\/li>\n
    6. Find the next step for the NARN, and take it. That mostly involves listening for that banging sound, and figuring it’s opportunity rather than just kids leaving bags of burning poop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      So anyway – all the best to all of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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