Marktopia

I never got into the whole yearly resolutions thing, mainly because I always got frustrated looking back at resolutions I forgot about or didn’t accomplish. As I get older, I am beginning to realize that setting these resolutions is more for peace of mind rather than a bunch of stuff that has to get done for the year. Yes, some of the things I really do want to do this year, but some would just be nice to get checked off the list. I am also breaking them down by different categories since categories are so much fun to do.

Tech (Work or Home)

• Learn ASP.NET - This will be useful at work and in the long term.
• Continue tweaking the Comics Database - To keep up with my main Rails experience, I figure I should keep tweaking the program if there are places that could use improvement.
• Develop Coffee Database - As some of you may remember, I once had a listing of all the beers I tried. It was all done with static pages and since I quit drinking before I started messing with databases, it didn’t make much sense to migrate it to one. Now I drink coffee, and my sense of curiosity for trying new coffees is similiar to my beer drinking, this seems like a basic/fun application
• Install Leopard and make my own widget - This one is more for fun, however finishing the goal of a Help Desk Outages widget would be cool
• Finish new Help Desk Outages stuff - This project has been started already, but knowing how priorities change at work, I want to make sure this gets done

Personal Life (Not that kinda personal)

• Pay off some loans - Being in debt isn’t that much fun, so paying off a couple of loans this year would be good. Rebekah and I are on track to do this, so baring some major change, it shouldn’t be a problem.
• Start saving for a house - This starts happening after the above resolution.
• Take a trip to San Francisco - This one falls under the maybe category, but I love San Fran and Rebekah has never been there.
• Drink 64 oz of water every day - I need to get healthier and water will help. Nuff details about that for now.

Social Stuff

• Take a class - This is wide open. Rebekah and I started taking a ballroom class right before the wedding. It was a bit intense and a lot too close to the wedding, but it did get me interested in taking some sort of class, maybe photography.

Stuff Stuff (List of expensive things that I want)

• Nintendo Wii
• Second car
• Digital SLR
• High Def TV

I will be adding to this list throughout the week with the plan to have this finalized by Jan 1, so check back after the 1st to see the final list.

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