Hi world.
It’s been almost two years, but I want to try my hand at blogging again. It helps to get these thoughts out of the recesses of my mind and into HTML.
It being Dec. 30, I’ve been thinking a lot about New Year’s resolutions. This year I completed one big one: I rode a century for the first time since 2008. Moreover it took me until October to complete it, so I had to pursue the resolution for 10 months of the year — a good exercise in self-discipline for someone who struggles with that sort of thing.
Unhappily, I completely bombed another resolution to cook every week. Oops. Apparently cooking doesn’t rank too high on my priority list.
And I welcomed a few goals that evolved into resolutions over the course of the year, though I didn’t pledge them back in January:
- I took a trip each month (minus January and February): Portland in March, Marin Headlands in April, Massachusetts in May, Santa Cruz in June, Long Island in July, Seattle in August, Yosemite in September, Chicago in October, New Orleans in November, and Massachusetts in December.
- I climbed each of the Bay Area’s peaks — Mount Tam, Mount Diablo, and Mount Hamilton — in one season.
- I went on at least one date. Technically, I went on many more than one, but I needed to set the bar low to get back into the game.
There are a few more that for a myriad of reasons I can’t talk about openly yet. I’ll get to them in 2012.
Happy New Year!
