{"id":183,"date":"2009-02-13T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:59:48","slug":"new-years-resolutions-2009-february-checkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/new-years-resolutions-2009-february-checkin\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions 2009: February Checkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see how this thing is going:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Review your resolutions monthly.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span>Self-referential check.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eat two before you buy one.<\/span><br \/>So far so good\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read two books before you buy one, excluding vacations or conferences:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economics-John-Taylor\/dp\/0618967613\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1234578005&amp;sr=1-3\">Economics<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economics-Self-Teaching-Guide-Wiley-Guides\/dp\/0471317527\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1234578045&amp;sr=1-1\">Economics: A Self-Teaching Guide<\/a>&#8220;, bought &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hot-Thought-Mechanisms-Applications-Emotional\/dp\/0262701243\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1234577933&amp;sr=1-5\">Hot Thought<\/a>&#8221; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bkstr.com\/Home\/10001-10161-1?demoKey=d\">Stanford Bookstore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/classics.mit.edu\/Epictetus\/epicench.html\">The Enchiridion<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Skeptics-Guide-Global-Poverty\/dp\/1932805575\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1234578074&amp;sr=1-1\">The Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to Global Poverty<\/a>&#8220;, bought &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brainwashing-Science-Thought-Kathleen-Taylor\/dp\/0199204780\">Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control<\/a>&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylights.com\/\">City Lights Books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The hardest of all the resolutions by far.  &#8220;But it&#8217;s my birthday!&#8221;  No.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read two comics before you buy one, excluding three comics per week:<\/span><br \/>Have not bought more than three comics per week, have read several.  Pretty easy to keep this one under the lid.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Watch two DVDs before you buy one, and don&#8217;t let anyone loan you anything:<\/span><br \/>Watched <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_%281978_film%29\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_the_President%27s_Men_%28film%29\">All the President&#8217;s Men<\/a>, but bought nothing.  Not very tempting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Work out at the gym at least twice a week, three weeks per month:<\/span><br \/>Sandi and I are back on a regular schedule, more or less; 3-4 times per week.  Easy to miss a subsequent day once you miss a day.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Go to a martial arts class two times a week, at least three weeks per month:<\/span><br \/>Been going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacific-aikido.org\/AC-MV.php\">Aikido Center<\/a>, think I got in at least three weeks last month.  Easy to miss a subsequent day once you miss a day.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Review your GTD folder at least once a week, three weeks a month.<\/span><br \/>So far, so good.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Publish at least one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanufiku.com\/\">Fanu Fiku<\/a> page a month.<\/span><br \/>Total failure on this in January, but I do have a big backlog of pages and worked on a 24 hour comic day, so this is in progress.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least two hours <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/fiction\/\">writing<\/a> at least twice a week.<\/span><br \/>On top of it.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least two hours doing <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">generative<\/span> research at least once a week.<\/span><br \/>Total failure on this; I have spent very little time doing this, but at least I&#8217;m still reading technical journals at a good pace.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Send a short story to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadingedgemagazine.com\/\">magazine<\/a> at least once a month.<\/span><br \/>Total failure.  I need to tackle that this weekend.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least one hour a week practicing a foreign language.<\/span><br \/>Total failure.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least one hour a week practicing your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeofpoi.com\/\">poi<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>Had to order new poi as we lost them in a recent trip.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Each week, contact a friend you haven&#8217;t talked to in a while<\/span>.<br \/>So far so good.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Write a blog entry once a week.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">So far so good.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read a novel once a month.<\/span><br \/>Total failure at the &#8220;fun&#8221; resolution.  I recently finished re-reading &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fountainhead\">The Fountainhead<\/a>&#8221; prior to making the resolutions.  I&#8217;m trying to read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triplanetary_%28novel%29\">Triplanetary<\/a> but it is frankly gad-ow-ful, and I really don&#8217;t like saying that about some author&#8217;s hard work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So so far we&#8217;re batting &#8230; meh.  16 resolutions, total failure on 6 of them.  Gotta keep at it&#8230; suggestions welcome, as would be 24 extra hours every day.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see how this thing is going: Review your resolutions monthly. Self-referential check. 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