Sep
10
2007
Hiatus
Approximately 365 days after my last post I have returned. Life continues to challenge, confound, surprise: we celebrated the birth of our second child this year (another girl); I took a new job; I have failed to properly maintain personal relationships; I have aged another year.
For my thirty-first year I have a series of resolutions:
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Make my family the priority
Keep in regular contact with my friends (both near and far)
Post regularly
Write a decent short story
Write five good poems
Write five bad poems
Purchase flowers for my wife no less than 12 times
Visit my brother
Take my wife out on no less than 12 dates
Take my daughters out on no less than 12 dates
Enjoy the company of my parents regularly
Write a compelling web application in Ruby on Rails
Organize the IT Guild into a formidable collection of personalities and talent
Finish no less than eight novels
Attain Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Attain VMWare Certification
Volunteer my time to a charitable organization
Teach my children how to be kind and generous
Create five original recipes and share them with the world
Exercise regularly
Surely some of these are trite, however, I feel it best to note them all. I cannot avoid what I can see — these are the things I shall do this year.
ad multos annos!