Gosh. Where have the years gone? I remember sitting at the family dining room table not quite getting used to the idea of seeing “2000″ as part of the date on a newspaper.

Now I sit here and look behind me. I’m looking for those six years that somehow snuck by when I wasn’t looking. Or mabye I was drunk and slumped over a bottle of vodka when they slunk by.. giggling and pointing at me.

But as mothers are bound to say, there’s no use crying over spilled milk. Time’s arrow continues to track unerringly forward, things and people need to be done.

I never was much on new year’s resolutions. I always subscribed to the the notion that any form of self-improvement is always best started right now. As in right now. Why wait around for some arbitary day of the year that supposedly siginfies some new year, when not even all calendars or all cultures even observe the same new year. Just get started on it now. Or tomorrow, if there’s this candy bar you want to finish off before starting that diet.

However I do have a few items I’d like to stratch off for 2007. So without further ado, the list – in roughly chronological order:

  • Run ten miles without needing medical assistance afterwards. (this leads up to another item below)
  • Boulder V9 at the gym. Need to show those 19 year old punks at the gym that a 32 year old man can still kick their ass. And since they’re getting better every day. I have to as well. What I don’t tell the punks is that I’m hurting all over afterwards. Advil! Stat!
  • [this item shall remain personal to me]
  • Purchase a 85 1.2L. Biggest, most expensive piece of glass you’ll ever see.
  • On October 28, 2007 – Run the Marines Marathon. Ill take any time as long as I don’t DNF. Under four hours if I’m lucky
  • Move to San Francisco