My resolution for next year is to get my CLE credits done on time so I don’t spend the last day of 2025 bored to tears watching recorded webinars (lest the state bar slap my wrist to the tune of $100).
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He’s got thousands of vinyl albums, thousands of 1960s and 70s comic books (some very valuable, like the originals Amazing Spiderman and Fantastic Four). Thousands of old “pocket books”, mostly science fiction. Thousands of hardbound books. Thousands of DVDs and some hundred or so old educational film reels he bought from a school district that converted to a digital format. His wife collects oddball nick-nacks and which cover almost every elevated flat surface in their house. And wall hangings that cover most walls. And there’s more, like the bedroom furniture we had growing up – he uses it in his barn… Hell, he even has our old stuffed animals from when we were real young. He offered to give me my old favorite teddy bear, I told him to keep it.
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The line between archivist and hoarder is getting thinner by the day.
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2 things derailed my list.
- My father’s physical health declined abruptly, so changes in his and my mother’s residences.
- I herniated a disc in July.
We’ve managed to hold things together pretty well. I’m filling 2024 under ‘sometimes life gets in the way’.
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I feel for you on both of those fronts.
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Yeah, cleaning/reorganizing the metal building at Round Mountain has been on the list for the past 3 or so fall/winters. Maybe this is the year!
I’ve got a picture somewhere from ~15 years ago when it was new, right after my buddy and I finished building out all the workbenches and shelving and bathroom/kitchenette…it was so beautiful, not so much after mom has had 15 years to haul in boxes of whatnot and random furniture. I’ll take the blame for about 1/3 of the clutter and disorganization.
I had 3 of those and two simple surgeries. Condolences.
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Just document everything, stack and/or shelve everything by categories, close door. It’s a warehouse.
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We’ll have top men working on it. Top. Men.
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A system of piles. I can relate.
Having the piles does not sound pleasant.
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My wife and I joined the Y at the end of November and have been working out 3 times a week since then. I hope we’ll be able to keep it up.
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Lazy, and an eyesore as well.
I have a plan though.
Stop piling on, Neil! 
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Wife and I constantly go to the same restaurants in Houston, including tonight. They are all great, but… Resolution is to try a restaurant a month that we’ve never been too. I think this is something fun that I’ll actually do. Plenty of options.
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My resolutions are:
- Write in a journal everyday, at least in part to improve my handwriting (kinda inspired by folks here and I’m using a nice pen, but sorry Hudson, no fountain pen)
- Write 12 chapters of a novel I’ve been working on
- Be able to jog a mile without stopping
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One chapter a month, I take it?
Good for you. Lemme know if you want a reader. SciFi?
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Yes, I’m actually sitting on two sci-fi ideas right now, one more developed than the other. The one I’m actively working on is, predictably and embarrassingly, a story set in the Star Trek universe that I have absolutely no hope of ever getting published as a “Star Trek novel” but is fun for me to write.
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I got carried away doing the same thing last year. It was fun.
Ok with lessons learned from 2025, here goes:
- Stay organized. There are a lot of changes happening in our household this year and I will need to be on top of things.
- Concentrate on relationships. Personal/professional, don’t take them for granted.
- Read some Shakespeare.