I hereby resolve on January 1st, 2009 to:

-1- Eat more bacon. Almost none was consumed in '08.

-2- Visit a water park.

-3- See if I can finally get through Ulysses.

-4- Spend a week in the Black Hills of Dakota.

-5- Decide on a career.

-6- Consider a lobster.

-7- Quit taking myself so seriously.

-8- Write down some of my greatest memories.

-9- Pay attention to the Jesus signs on the sides of old barns.

-10- Befriend an officer of the law.

-11- Visit a Dairy Queen somewhere in West Virginia.

-12- Read Russian History.

-13- Learn to master the glow-in-the-dark frisbee

-14- Kayak the Snake River.

-15- Find that lost rhododendron hill park in Eugene, Oregon.

-16- Fly fish the Animus.

-17- Study the Hindus and Buddhists.

-18- Learn about Islam.

-19- Take L and the dog camping in Pink Beds.

-20- Write more without worrying who will read it.

-21- Drive around Wales.

-22- Get a dog.

-23- Bestow forbearance where undeserved.

-24- Drink more tequila.

-25- Say what I really think.

-26- Understand that the past is obliterated.

-27- Become more Russian.