Isolationism

Allow me to add to the millions who have already echoed the sentiment. Not much to say, really. 2006 was a good year whose highlight was the birth of my son. We had a few scares about our family’s health, but on the whole we couldn’t ask for much more (at least, not without sounding greedy or ungrateful).

I’m not much of one for making New Year’s resolutions, but here are a few points I’d like to try to accomplish in 2007:

• Be a better father.
• Be a better husband. As with my son, making a relationship work is a moving target. Thank you for putting up with me so far, Bex.
• Switch to Linux on the desktop. I’ve spent the holidays ironing out the bugs, learning new shortcut keys, and installing software as I discover I need it.
• Improve my Python skills and learn CherryPy. I’m a web developer by trade and it’s time I learned how to connect my love of Python with web applications (and not just support applications/scripts).
• Finish squeaker’s room. It will never truly be finished, but right now it’s not even ready for him to move in. There is hardware to mount, drapes to hang, and some equipment to buy and install. There is the software to finish, too.
• Live healthy. We’ve been eating better in the past few months than we have in some time, but we can do better — lose some weight and get some excercise. I have a feeling squeaker will be helping us out in that regard before long as we’ll be chasing him around before too long, now.
• Write more. 2006 saw this blog created (after a long wait since I purchase the domain name) but 2007 will see it populated. It’d be nice to have people pick a month and find a healthy number of posts for each one. … Except for months in the future. Why do you people do that?

Hope you all have a happy, healthy, and successful 2007. Cheers!