Every year, I make a set of New Year’s resolutions. I know there are lots of folks who find such things useless – why make ’em if you’re going to break ’em? – but the process of figuring out what to resolve helps me focus my attention on what’s important to me. Usual categories include my faith, exercise, personal achievements on my life to-do list that I want to make progress on, and areas in software development that I want to learn more about/work on. I’m behind schedule, though – today’s December 31, and the list hasn’t even been drafted, much less culled to get the set for this year. Resolution #1: no more procrastination on New Year’s resolutions! By the end of tomorrow, in order for me to feel like a completely on-top-of-things individual, I will have come up with my set of New Year’s resolutions. Whether I’ll post them or not, I haven’t yet decided.
2002 was a pretty eventful year for me, to say the least! In addressing the same question of what my goals will be this year, I find a whole new range of possibilities that weren’t there last year. For example, do I resolve to press on with my civilian education, or focus on military education (required for promotion), or should I strive for military accomplishments and get more “fruit salad” (ribbons/awards) on my uniform? One resolution I’m sure of after looking back over your photo archives: I want to be as thin as I was in those boot camp grad pics again! Goodbye Budweiser, hello Aquafina!