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2010 resolutions review: the end of the decade cometh

2010-12-28 - 1:41 p.m.

Whooty hoot. The Saints have beat the Atlanta Falcons and are assured of a place in the play-offs. Much opportunity for Cookie to ring his bell as he watched the game on his foofy new TV last night.

I just got my new wheels for my Opal Machine, as in right now. Just this minute. Wheeeee. They say to break in the wheels by making a large agate cab. That can be arranged. Let me just poke around and see what I find.

Guess what. It's that time of year again. Here's my Resolution Scorecard from 2010 -- good for a laugh if nothing else.

  1. Resolution: Exercise 30 minutes a day 6 days a week. I'd say I hit closer to 4 times a week. For some reason, exercise is no longer an automatic part of my daily routine. Yes, I had to lay off the exercise right after my surgery, but I don't know why it's such a struggle these days. I seem to have lost the daily habit.

  2. Take a bird walk every month. I only missed the month of July, but it was miserably sticky-hot, and I knew that I'd be doing multiple bird walks in Australia in August. Well, I've also not yet been able to do my bird walk for December, but I'll be heading out to investigate a potential eagle nest tomorrow, God willing and the creek don't rise.

  3. Get some work done. Got the eyelift surgery. Also got some spider vein laser surgery. I won't say that I can pass for forty again, but it's an improvement.

  4. Get a haircut. I got three, but only the first one was a success, even though all three cuts were supposedly the same. I guess that's what you call an irreproducible result.

  5. Play 1,000 hours minimum of live poker. Did that, and -- more than that -- I added and am beating the game of 2/5 No Limit poker. Unfortunately, the move to the significantly smaller game of 2/5 NL was more or less necessary because the midstakes limit games I was playing are dying out, so the net result is playing longer hours for less money. 20/40 LHE is pretty much an extinct game, and 30/60 LHE is heading the same way, with no new fish entering the pond. The phrase "No Limit" makes you think of somebody shoving out to bet the ranch and thus implies a bigger game with more money on the table out there to win. Ha. It doesn't take long to figure out that 2/5 NL -- the biggest game in WAY too many casinos -- has much smaller pots than 20/40 LHE. But I guess that's what a recession means -- less money in the economy, less disposable income for our finned friends to dispose of. All I can do is grab my share and complain that my share isn't big enough.

  6. Completely memorize the advanced strategy for 9/7 Double Bonus Poker.... Of course, if they yank the machines, I'll drop this project. They yanked the machines. I dropped the project. There was over a decade where we never paid for a meal or a hotel room in Vegas. Sadly, now that we're just playing poker, we've lost the goodies, and we may well have enjoyed our last free hotel room as of 2010.

  7. Update financial records. Did that. Hope they'll stay updated for awhile so I can work on the mineral catalogue.

  8. Find a way to use and book all of our frequent flyer miles. I got a trip to Costa Rica for my surgery for miles plus $45 in taxes. Roger and I got a trip to Seattle and Vancouver for miles plus, I think, about $10 in tax apiece. However, mostly this year was about stockpiling the miles, since I was constantly flying to Vegas to play poker instead of to some exotic destination. Roger still has enough miles in his own Delta account to get another ticket, but it doesn't expire until November 2012, thanks to some nicely timed Best Western credits, so we'll take our time and figure that out. He also has enough for a trip on American Airlines, miles that won't expire as long as he has his AA-linked bank account at the Texas bank. I have enough on Delta to get another Business Class ticket to Africa, at least in theory. I have big plans for that. My miles on American Airlines will go to a Business Class ticket to Bolivia. I've got a guy looking into tours that will allow viewing of the Golden-Crowned Parakeet AKA Peachfront Conure. Stay tuned. The dirt-cheap, rock-bottom backpacking trip to the Sydney and the Blue Mountains of Australia might have been my only really "out there" trip of the year, but I've got much more on the horizon.

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