Back...
... in Scotland. I've been awake for far too long but I'm trying to stay up for as long as possible to avoid that horrible feeling when jet-lag leaves you completely out-of-sync with the rest of the world. Coffee has helped a little so far, but R has already fallen by the wayside and I'm fading fast.
As is traditional, we left blue skies and warm sunshine in Texas and came home to cold grey rain. The cats have been well looked after but gave us the usual "where have you been?" bollocking when we got in. The place is ankle-deep in cat hair, and a major cleanup operation is going to be required this weekend.
Fading... fast.... resolve.... weakening..... must....... nap.....
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Happy New Year
I know it's a little bit late in coming, but we are still on holiday in Texas, staying with Rebecca's sister and her husband. Today is a quiet one. R is out shopping with her mum, and I'm taking the opportunity to stay home and be tremendously geeky by firing in to version 0.2 of Poster, which will have all sorts of snazzy new features, and provide a more adaptable platform for the even snazzier features I have planned for version 0.3 and above.
I'm not making any resolutions this year, since the arrival of the baby is likely to have a similar effect to taking my old life and putting it in a blender, and free time will be at a premium. Anyway, I'm terrible at keeping them. Let's take a trip in the backintimeotron and look at my resolutions from last year...
Resolution: Make more music.
Outcome: Bugger all. In 2007 I did even less musically that I did in 2006.
Resolution: Lose some weight.
Outcome: Cancelling my gym membership as part of a pre-baby belt-tightening operation, plus two trips to the USA involving a lot of sitting in cars and eating large breakfasts have resulted in me being the heaviest I've ever been. Attempts to take up running seemed initially promising, but shitty horrible weather has limited that somewhat.
Resolution: Procrastinate less.
Outcome: Bit of a general one that, but despite my failure to achieve the resolutions listed above, I feel that I did achieve that to a certain degree. Completing NaNoWriMo in November gave me a nice sense of being able to see a large project through, and I'm pleased to have gotten out a version of Poster which is farily usable, if currently feature-poor.
Resolution: Blog more.
Outcome: Hard to tell without actually counting all the posts I made in 2006 and 2007, but I think I achieved this one.
Anyway, resolutions or no, things are gonna change in 2008 whether I want them to or not.