Welcome to twenty-ought-seven!

New Years came and went in spectacular fashion. We had our D&D group over, and my buddy brought his friend John from work over too. Much fun was had by all, I’m sure some of the pictures are going to venture onto the blogs pretty quickly.

I am pleased to report that no one exploded this year, and I didn’t have a hangover. This was an important positive to note, because my New Years Day consisted of visiting several office parties.

One was at my supervisor’s very impressive house in Morton, the other was at the lakeside property of one . I’m glad I went to my supervisor’s get together, because I think that I was one of four others from our division that decided to come.

The other party was a little less uncomfortable… it is always good to get to sit and talk with , and I think that we will have to get together like this more often since he will be leaving my immediate office at the end of this week.

For the record, I’m still working on the structure of my New Years resolutions but I’m ready to share the three that I’ve settled on:

1.) Continue paying off my credit cards.
2.) Study, research, and participate in sparring more this year.
3.) Maintain my progress at Sochin, embark upon learning the remaining three new kata for the Sandan exam.

Measurements for #1 should be easy. I’m going to have to work on some metrics to keep me honest on #2 and #3, but maybe I can put my heads together with my dojomates and come up with something. But that’s it for a first draft, if anything else needs added we’ll get that done before January is past!

Happy New Years, everyone!