Resolutions

• Stay in contact with old friends better

  While I’ve definitely made an attempt at this over the last few months, it’s been a pretty weak one. Sometimes I procrastinate the effort it takes to make a phone call, but everybody’s got an email address and who doesn’t love coming home to a personal email?

• Take advantage of creative/art/music/social events in my new home, Portland

  The girl and I have been enjoying the slow pace at which we have been discovering Portland - it’s like unwrapping a gift really slow, prolonging the anticipation. Assimilating the different areas of Austin over the 7 years I lived there was cool - each year you find a new area and move there, then you know it like the back of your hand and it becomes a new piece of the larger “home”. I’m in no rush to figure out every nook and cranny of Portland geographically, but I want to take better advantage of the culture.

• Physical activity (who doesn’t have this one on their list?)

  My bike and I need to be reunited. With Washington Park so close, there’s just no excuse. If I give one, slap me. (This fractured shoulder has finally proven to me that falling down at 26 just isn’t the same as falling down at 15 - incredibly disappointing but a fact of life, I suppose.)

Predictions

• Less contemplation, more creation

  2005 contained a lot of big decisions, life choices, etc. (No, not that choice yet, I’ll get to it, I swear…) 2006 will contain a much more execution - more writing, more images, more coding, more building.

• Networking becomes like second nature to me

  The girl still can’t figure out the paradox of why I enjoy being on stage, public speaking, etc. but am not always comfortable wandering around a party, talking one-on-one with strangers. 2006 will be the year I turn that around.