Posted by Jim at January 3rd, 2007

I haven’t been mentioning this sort of thing, but I’ve almost completed three full years of blogging and am about to start my fourth. I’m a little surprised that I’m still at it and think that it’s cool that some people actually read this thing (or so my stat package tells me),

I’ve never written with an audience in mind, but if I did, I’d imagine an audience of friends and occasionally family. If you’ve somehow come to read this blog without knowing me personally, that’s cool too. We’ll have to meet one of these days.

This being the first blog post of the new year, I’m tempted to reflect on the old year and set some goals for the new.

I barely know what to say about the old year though. While not spectacularly good, it wasn’t spectactularly bad either.

I started writing my novel again which is good. I didn’t finish my master’s project which is not so good. I’ve got work to do for various clients, something that does make me happy.

This year, I’d like to get a version of my business website up that I’m happy about. I’d also like to finish the current draft of my novel and start the next. In an ideal world I’d like to run more and maybe learn about technical climbing.

I’d also like to start a web comic. I’ve got a bad feeling that I’d have to learn to draw first though. I’m thinking about whether or not that’s feasible.

Beyond that, I’d like to get better at programming. In particular I’d like to improve my skills with javascript, ruby and php.

In short, I’ve got a big pile of things that I’d like to do (and this list skips a few…). I’ve just got to figure out a way to transform them into something I can actually take action on.

That’s all.