I hope the new year has found everyone happy, healthy, and for us Minnesotans, staying warm. I have to say that mine didn't start out great health-wise - I woke up Thursday feeling kind of sick. I thought it was probably just too much festivity from the day before, but I now think it might have actually been something I ate - Erin was somewhat the same sort of sick. Plus I'm still getting to the end of a cold...anyway a hard-fought Husker bowl victory against Clemson and some Pizza Hut pizza helped sooth the aches and pains!
Inspired by my friend Shelley's resolutions blog entry (she's in the "official" blog world where she actually gets paid to do this sort of thing) I decided to review my resolutions from last year and make new ones for this year.
I wrote 10 resolutions for last year. While I won't list them all, I will say that I believe I accomplished 5 of them. I failed miserably on 4 of them, and one got some progress. I also believe part of the problem is that sometimes resolutions can be very broad and vague - either biting off more than you can chew, or not really accomplishing a specific goal. For example, "Be More Green" - there are 1000 ways you can do that. While I did some stuff in that area last year, I decided to set specific goals this year for that.
So I am now looking at my very specific list of 7 resolutions for this year, which I think are all doable.
Texting
Unrelated - for all of you that use cell phones and text messaging in particular - I've recently read some articles on how ridiculous the charges for text messages are. I knew from a technical standpoint that just simply the amount of data being sent (160 bytes) is nothing in today's world of data transmission - that's about 1/6 of 1k, or to put it in terms of something relevant, about 1/31250 of an average mp3 file. So it shouldn't even cost $.01 in terms of data transmission cost. However, these articles point out why it really costs phone companies nothing because, being so small, they just sneak it into voice transmissions. Brilliant - I am in the wrong business!
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