Happy New Year.

I did a couple of interesting things today.

1) I sat down and wrote out a detailed “mission statement” for the upcoming year. Its the same mission I had last year-get my ass back to Asia. The difference is this year, I am doing it come hell or high water-job or no job. I laid out some pretty specific and hopefully attainable benchmarks to get there. I find that writing it down-its framed on my desk at home-codifies my thinking better.

2) I took the long way into work this morning-allowing six cylinders of precision German technology to propel me at a high rate of speed while I indulged in a little primal scream therapy. This year was ten years to the day when a worthless piece of human excrement thought he had the right to: exceed his authority, violate my rights, and  interfere in my life and tell me what I could and could not do. I still marvel at the fact that I was able to rise up-think clearly- and defeat him. As a result I survived  and I thrive -in spite of him and his useless ways.

It accomplished nothing-and it accomplished everything. “I’m still here you greasy bastard! In spite of you and in spite of your program. Fuck you and everything about you!!!”

It sure felt good! Feel free to pass my greeting on to him if you wish……….

3) I went to Barnes and Noble and bought some books. Books that I know were sure to piss the S.O. off.  One of them was this one-and it was on sale:

4) The S.O. and I are going to a movie this evening. If I had my druthers I would be at a huge new years party in [Roppongi. Bangkok, Orchard Road, fill in the name of your favorite party spot here]-or I would be with the herd in Times Square. Since neither option is available and Shopping Mall will have hordes of road Nazi’s out tonight. We will be drinking champagne at home later.

5) I wrote up a bunch of blog posts.

All in all a pretty good day.

Can you tell I am in sort of a punchy mood today? Maybe it is because New Years is both a time of excitement and trepidation. Because it symbolizes possibilities for good things and still has an underlying tone of uncertainty as to whether bad things will pass you by. That always lends a bit  of  deep thinking to the day. After all there were literally thousands of people who had great hopes for the year and nonetheless for them it ended badly.  I try to keep that in mind and be grateful for what I have.

Happy New Year!