2010: Yearly Posting

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If I'm posting something of substance, you can bet it must be time to flip the calendar over for the new year! I'm combining my "wrap up" and "new year" posts this year. It's January 1st, so I might as well get it all done now!


The biggest thing to happen to me this year is that I got engaged to a beautiful, smart, funny, amazing, wonderful woman. I am a lucky man. I also went to my second ever "Con," and the first since i really knew what a Con was. I kinda liked it.

Let's see how I did on last year's resolutions:

1. Get a new (to me) car.Accomplished! Now I just have to pay it off!


2. Read 12 new (to me) books.Fail. Trying again this year.


3. Go to the gym (or other workout) at least 3 days a week.I think I averaged somewhat less than 3 days a week, but I kept up a pretty steady pace from February through to October.
4. No more drinking on work nights.I think this one made it through January.
5. Eat only "happy" (humane, organic, sustainable) meat when eating meat.Fell down occasionally, but improved greatly over the previous year.
6. Finish my book.Not quite yet. Started a new one that I hope to finish before my birthday. The old one is still a work in progress, too.
7. Keep a garden alive from Spring til Fall. Accomplished-ish. Everything seems kinda dead now, though. Starting over.
8. Never eat out (or order delivery) alone, and no more than 1 lunch and 2 other meals each week. This one made it at least through to November. Not sure why I fell down on it.
9. Review how I'm doing on my resolutions once a month on this site. Not even a little bit.
10. Take at least 1 week long vacation with Sharlot. Totally accomplished!

Now, for last year's predictions:

1. Dollhouse will not be canceled this year! Well, this isn't a promising start.... Wrong! Though it will continue to produce more episodes in 2010.


2. Sir Terry Pratchett will live to see 2010!Right. I'm kind of appalled at myself for making this one, actually. It's kind of a reverse deadpool thing. Oh well. Not only did he live the whole year, I got to meet him this year! (mcsherrie has the scoop on that here) I'm not doing this one again because it now creeps me out. Have a good, healthy 2010, Sir PTerry.


3. At least one of my friends will acquire a new cat. (10.5: It will be orange.)Not that I'm aware of.


4. I'll spend more time in Phoenix than last year.Totally right, but as has been pointed out to me, I kind of cheated on this one.


5. My brother will graduate and get into Graduate School.Why, of course he did!


6. Sharlot will get into Graduate School.She did not, but we did not cry, as she only applied to two (very exclusive) schools and wasn't sure she wanted to, anyway. Things worked out for the best, as she has had great success as a park ranger!


7. Nora will graduate and get into Graduate School.Right (I think). She did graduate, and I'm pretty sure has been accepted for next year at graduate school.


8. Melissa will graduate.Well, duh.


9. I'll get appointed as counsel in a Navajo Nation criminal case.Wrong! And kind of glad I'm wrong!


10. The Large Hadron Collider will not destroy the world.I'm pretty sure I was right on this one

RESOLUTIONS: 2010*

1. Post to my wedding blog on a weekly basis.


2. Save up my half of the wedding budget.


3. Read 12 new (to me) books. (Yes, I'm trying this again. Umpteenth time's the charm.)


4. Get to the gym (or other workout) at least 3 days a week on average. And keep track this time!


5. Eat exclusively happy meat, if any meat at all. (Exceptions for Mardi Gras and food offered to me by gracious hosts).


6. Finish at least one of my books.


7. Cook a dinner for myself at least once a week.


8. Keep a food diary.


9. Move in with Sharlot.


10. Stay under 200 pounds.

*Resolutions take effect Monday, January 4, 2010.

I also resolve to read my friends' LJ and blog posts more often and more thoroughly, and to comment on them regularly, but as that is hard to quantify, I'm not putting it on my yearly top ten.

PREDICTIONS: 2010

1. The Arizona Governor's Race will be won by Terry Goddard;


2. Someone will leave either the Flagstaff or Tuba City office of the organization I work for;


3. Democrats will pick up seats in the House and maintain their majority in the Senate;


4. Dr. Horrible will get a sequel announced for 2011;


5. Swine flu will blow over and be replaced by a new epidemic;


6. Sales of Apple's new tablet computer will be disappointing, if it is even released this year;


7. Google will finally come out and admit that they just want to rule the world;


8. Miss America will say something stupid that will result in a hilarious YouTube video that I won't even be able to find by the time I do my next Year in Review


9. Sarah Palin will get distracted by something shiny and forget she plans to run for office in two years;


10. Barrack Obama will do a bunch of stuff that alternately disappoints, annoys, infuriates, excites, amazes, encourages, and confounds me.

Happy 2010, everyone. Here's hoping it's better than 2009.