New Year’s Resolutions
I’ve put off resolutions until now, because I’ve been on holiday breaking them.
There’s not much I do that’s really bad. I gave up smoking, I don’t eat meat, I swear a lot but I think that’s OK, I have friends I should call more often than I do, but I use my time well.
So here are but a few of the things I will resolve to do: (that’s resolve rather than actually achieve)
1. Become a better banjo player. This means practice.
2. Keep writing the book. At least two hours a month, so as to make progress and not obsess. I have trouble doing anything by halves.
3. Use the Japanese calligraphy set my wife bought be for Christmas 2003. I haven’t even opened it. She’s a good woman and I don’t deserve her.
4. Lighten up - try not to think bad thoughts.
5. Spend more time with my dad.
6. Paint the garden fences with that waterproof protector stuff.
7. Plant a plum tree in the garden.
8. Watch no reality TV whatsoever. This doesn’t include docos or News, but it does include drivel like What Not to Eat, Changing Organs, Back to the Plague, How Shiney is Your Heiney? and shows of that ilk.
9. Buy nothing on credit.
10. Use this (points to head) before opening this (points to mouth).