I don’t have any set ideas for New Years Resolutions. Just the usual stuff. Do I want to do something different this year and actually define a single resolution for the year and then stick to it (as if)? I don’t know.

Here are some possibilities…

• Make more music both with and without the band. We’re talking about starting the band-ball rolling again in January. Please please please let it stick this time. I really miss playing in a band and I really, really don’t want to have to find a new one.
• Listen to more music. I need to pay more attention to the musical world around me and just listen to more stuff. Old stuff, new stuff, borrowed or blue stuff. It doesn’t matter. Just listen to more stuff.
• Experience live music again. I went to two concerts in 2024 (I think). One of them involved my daughter. The other involved Iron Maiden. I need to see more bands playing live. I missed a handful of shows that in my much younger days I would not have missed. Getting old makes this difficult but I should at least try to do better.
• Take more photos. Digital or film, it doesn’t matter. Take more photos. Learn more about taking photos. Learn new techniques, try new things. I have a medium format camera now and I have taken exactly one photo with it. Get off your ass and take more photos.
• Be more social. Either with family or friends. Covid is over. Deal with it. Stop living like a fucking hermit, you fucking hermit.
• Drive to Vermont to annoy the kids more often. Heh heh heh, yeah.
• Adopt another cat. We’ve been a two cat household for almost two years. Is it time to resolve to adopt a third? Yes. Maybe. Probably not, but yes.

That’ll do for now. I’ll think about other ideas to add over the next few days. 2025 is four days away.