I dedicate todays entry to the 4 visits this blog had yesterday. (Before I changed the template and forget to re-add google analytics code again). You know who you are. Ok it was all me.
Always so early in the year I get to thinking about what I want out of this one. Its a fresh new year, like a new platform to work off of thats just had a good polish. Although nothing really does change in reality. I will most likely be doing the same things this time next year. As it was with last year. I may be a little bit smarter, know a few more random facts like the RBA has a goal of 2-3% inflation for each year. I also grew to dislike children much more this year. Sticky, small fingers.
Last year I drew up one bitchin' list of goals to achieve. I completed probably 75% of them. I missed out on a couple of the more important ones. I do happily report that I did slap a tree while driving 80km/h in my car this year. Put a big tick next to number 14. Cheers.
This year I only have a few achievable goals. I've given up on the social goals I had. How does it go? If at first you don't succeed, try again.. then again.. then again.. then realise failure, give up and play your ps2. And I have. The 75 hours I played FFXII where done in some time intense 10-12 hour sessions in the beginning.
The most ambitious goal I have this year is to read 52 novels. Ambitious, yes, but it is quite achievable. Just as long as I don't attempt to devour too many Wheel of Time novels in too shorter time. At 12 books and 300,000 a piece they do take a while. I have four books on the fly at the moment.
- Enemy Glory by Karen Michalson
- The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time)
- Greek Fire by Winston Graham
- The Outsiders by SE Hinton
I do confess that I borrowed the idea from another blog that I came across. It's because it's a good idea. I found it at a very convenient time as well. A couple of days before the turn of the year, I find a concept that could work well. A delicious coincidence.
So it is already two weeks into the new year. My progress has been.. well there has been some progress. I have read one book in total. Its not exactly the book a week target I have been going for. I could polish off Fires of Heaven in about 6 hours. 300 more pages to go. Some books aren't even that long. It is worth it though.
The book I have read is Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay. The story that spawned my current tv obsession, Dexter. A serial killer who kills serial killers. Twisted morals. Disconnected feelings. It is awesome. I'll right up a review thingo of it later on. As I will with all of the books I read this year.
The other largish goal is to stock up on some more dvds. My goal is to hit the 200 mark this year. In my collection now I have 129. That should work out to be about $1000 worth of dvds. The trouble is finding more decent dvd's to buy. I know tonnes of tv series I can buy, but its also a good recipe for time acid. What I don't want is another Tongan Ninja situation. Even if it was $3. Stay away. Don't be lured in by Jermaine Clements of Flight of the Concords fame like I was.
Oh yeah. I should get a job.
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