utenzi

January 1st, 2009. The economy is tanking, that idiot is still inhabiting the Oval Office (but not for long), many of our jobs are iffy (including mine), and who knows when things will improve. But I've got plenty of books and a high-def television so I guess it'll all turn out. Bread and circuses , y'know? And added to all that, we're getting older every day. Wow. That used to be a good thing. Now it just means another new ache added to the list every few months or so. Right now I'm in pretty good shape. Paddling for the past 6 days straight really helped me out. For some reason that rythmic arm movement really helps out my back and shoulders. Now if I only lived on a lake... Well, for what it's worth: Happy New Year . Maybe it'll be a good one. At least we're out from under the Shrub. And for a personal resolution, I'll use the old standby: lose some weight. I'm at 207 now, I'll try to end the year at 195. I'm signed up to go on a hike...

Right now my 2007 resolution is 6 Megapixel and I don't think that's going to change this year. Okay. Wrong type of resolution to be talking about around the New Year but even though I've had my camera (Panasonic DMC-FZ7) for nearly a year now--I bought it late last March--I still love it. I guess my New Year's Resolution would be the traditional lose weight and exercise more--but everyone knows that we all break that one, so what's the point? Hey, how about Mother Nature making a resolution? No big hurricanes or tsunamis? Earthquakes? No to those also. Same goes for volcanos. There's a great resolution! The nature thing has been a bit sloppy here in NC the past 2 days. As you can see from these two pictures, we're getting rain here. The picture above is of my deck where you can see that there's standing water with raindrops making ripples. The picture to the left is a small tree in my backyard, with my shed as the backdrop, and a little bird shivering i...