Sunday, January 01, 2006
Agenda For 2006
or you can call these my New Years Resolutions. There have been years I chose not to make such resolutions, but this year I've decided to make a bunch. I should be able to keep some of them, no?
In no particular order:
Visit a shooting range, join a 2nd amendment advocacy group such as the NRA or the GOA. I need to do more research. I also plan on getting my first gun (a Browning Buckmark?) either at the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007, so I'll have to apply for a permit during the second half of the year, I guess.
Join the ACLU. Yes. I'm a bit bothered by the whole spying on Americans thing. I'm one of the few people I know personally, who thinks the war in Iraq is a good thing, but the occasional over-reach of Presidential authority by the monkey in the oval office (and his organ grinders) gets at me. There are legal arguments both pro and con over what the Prez has done, and while I admit I haven't sorted the whole thing out, I do feel motivated to join the one group who isn't going to sit by and just let shit happen.
Clean my refrigerator - eeeewwwww!!!!
Finish the songs I wrote and or recorded in 2005. Had a hard drive crash in September that seemed to be the final straw that killed my creative momentum. Temporarily, of course. This music and it's progress has been logged on my Psychovoyager site.
Write one new song a week. Just lyrics and melody. No elaborate arrangements. Shouldn't be so hard...
Record One cover song a month. Songs written by other musicians that is.
Get my finances in order. *ahem*
Get started on my retro/contemporary Black superheroes comic book concept. My Jewish swordsman epic gets put off till another year.
Getting a new cat. or two.
More exercise. Sure, I look healthy, but I'm forty now. It's not enough that I'm a pedestrian. I need to dust off those weights or something.
Cut down on Altoids consumption. It's an expensive habit.
Finish both pending Black Jesus cartoons by the summer. To be ready as greeting card/DVDs for next Christmas.
Take advantage of my dental plan while I still have one. As an adult, I have never been to a dentist. I shudder to think of the horrors that will be found once I'm examined.
Finish Grand Theft: Auto San Andreas. A few years ago I resolved to finish GTA3, but my brother moved out and took his PS2 with him. He recently got me my own PS2 as well as True Crime: New York City. In the meantime I got San Andreas for the PC. Aside from the PSP, which I mostly use when I'm not home, my gaming agenda is topped by San Andreas, followed by True Crime:NYC, and perhaps when I'm done with those, I'll revisit GTA3. I also have the PC version of Vice City around here somewhere. Never played that one.
Continue to read (when I'm not online) even though I have a PSP that goes everywhere with me (even on the bowl) and plays just about every type of media; comics, movies, games, music and text, which is unfortunately the least glamorous of the bunch*. On the plus side, memory sticks are such that if I were on a really long trip, I'd soon enough run out of movies and music. Games are a good time killer, but could see myself preferring to read some text in the meantime. Provided my batteries weren't dead by that time.
*On the other hand, text is what I spend most of my time on when I'm online. Not porn, not video, music, nor games, though I do spend time on all of those things. Hmmm. And it's unlikely I'll stop reading books or comic book compilations. I do spend less time with newspapers, however.
Organize my CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. That's some shit that's gone way outta hand. This should be on the top of my list.
Learn to play the flute. Got an inexpensive bamboo flute in Chinatown, sometime in mid 2005. Haven't really gotten very far with it, yet.
Resume my study of Japanese. Got sidetracked for two or three years.
That's about it. At some point, I'll make a permanent link to this list on the side of the page, so I can refer to it occasionally.
In no particular order:
Visit a shooting range, join a 2nd amendment advocacy group such as the NRA or the GOA. I need to do more research. I also plan on getting my first gun (a Browning Buckmark?) either at the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007, so I'll have to apply for a permit during the second half of the year, I guess.
Join the ACLU. Yes. I'm a bit bothered by the whole spying on Americans thing. I'm one of the few people I know personally, who thinks the war in Iraq is a good thing, but the occasional over-reach of Presidential authority by the monkey in the oval office (and his organ grinders) gets at me. There are legal arguments both pro and con over what the Prez has done, and while I admit I haven't sorted the whole thing out, I do feel motivated to join the one group who isn't going to sit by and just let shit happen.
Clean my refrigerator - eeeewwwww!!!!
Finish the songs I wrote and or recorded in 2005. Had a hard drive crash in September that seemed to be the final straw that killed my creative momentum. Temporarily, of course. This music and it's progress has been logged on my Psychovoyager site.
Write one new song a week. Just lyrics and melody. No elaborate arrangements. Shouldn't be so hard...
Record One cover song a month. Songs written by other musicians that is.
Get my finances in order. *ahem*
Get started on my retro/contemporary Black superheroes comic book concept. My Jewish swordsman epic gets put off till another year.
Getting a new cat. or two.
More exercise. Sure, I look healthy, but I'm forty now. It's not enough that I'm a pedestrian. I need to dust off those weights or something.
Cut down on Altoids consumption. It's an expensive habit.
Finish both pending Black Jesus cartoons by the summer. To be ready as greeting card/DVDs for next Christmas.
Take advantage of my dental plan while I still have one. As an adult, I have never been to a dentist. I shudder to think of the horrors that will be found once I'm examined.
Finish Grand Theft: Auto San Andreas. A few years ago I resolved to finish GTA3, but my brother moved out and took his PS2 with him. He recently got me my own PS2 as well as True Crime: New York City. In the meantime I got San Andreas for the PC. Aside from the PSP, which I mostly use when I'm not home, my gaming agenda is topped by San Andreas, followed by True Crime:NYC, and perhaps when I'm done with those, I'll revisit GTA3. I also have the PC version of Vice City around here somewhere. Never played that one.
Continue to read (when I'm not online) even though I have a PSP that goes everywhere with me (even on the bowl) and plays just about every type of media; comics, movies, games, music and text, which is unfortunately the least glamorous of the bunch*. On the plus side, memory sticks are such that if I were on a really long trip, I'd soon enough run out of movies and music. Games are a good time killer, but could see myself preferring to read some text in the meantime. Provided my batteries weren't dead by that time.
*On the other hand, text is what I spend most of my time on when I'm online. Not porn, not video, music, nor games, though I do spend time on all of those things. Hmmm. And it's unlikely I'll stop reading books or comic book compilations. I do spend less time with newspapers, however.
Organize my CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. That's some shit that's gone way outta hand. This should be on the top of my list.
Learn to play the flute. Got an inexpensive bamboo flute in Chinatown, sometime in mid 2005. Haven't really gotten very far with it, yet.
Resume my study of Japanese. Got sidetracked for two or three years.
That's about it. At some point, I'll make a permanent link to this list on the side of the page, so I can refer to it occasionally.
Labels: broken promises, holidays
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