My Last Post of the Year

Well here we are.  One year is about to end and another about to begin.  I'm having a quiet evening here at home, like I usually do.  And I'm glad that I'm not in Las Vegas for this one, as that not only is the weather there colder than it is here, they're going to have a higher concentration of crazies than my quiet neighborhood here will.

As is usually my custom, I'm not going to make any resolutions.  There are some things I want to do next year, and I'm going to call them goals.  I'm also going to reserve the right to let those goals be overcome by events.

One.  I have a new state to explore and to write about.  I have already made some visits Downtown to people watch.  Most casinos are great for people-watching as are airports, but with casinos what you see is simultaneously entertaining and depressing.  But there's more to Nevada than casinos.  There's ghost towns.  There's a national park up by Ely.  There's some scenery in southern Utah and the Arizona Strip.  I need to make use of the opportunity to see these things as that it won't be for another six to eight months before I decide what's going to happen house-wise.  I have Nevada tags on the truck but am keeping the Arizona driver's license since Nevada law allows me to do that since I own property in Arizona.

Two.  Mark is moving to Chattanooga.  I want to get out there and see him.  I don't know if that will happen as that I haven't yet accrued vacation, and I'd like the finances to recover some.  Once January is behind me I'm hoping that it will. 

Three.  I really need to, in my spare time, start writing the essays to complete the "Money Series" that I started a long time ago.  That will take some more offline research, but the trouble I have is that there are too many things I like to do and not enough hours in the day to do them. 

Four.  My apartment is livable, but needs some furniture.  I figure on visiting thrift stores to help me out with this.  For starters I need some chairs and a computer table.  A new computer table can be scored for $40 if you know where to look, and I may pick one up when I'm back "apartment" (not "home"!) next week if that chain exists up there and they still have some in stock.

Five.  I want to tour the Hoover Dam.  I have toured it before, but that was back in 1986.  I'd really like it if I could wander around unescorted to check it out, but I'll have to settle for escort.  Besides, where I work, I can wander around unescorted and walk inside life-size spacecraft mockups, and few people get to do that. 

I'm sure I could come up with more, but will stop here with that. 

 

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Our wedding will be in the not too distant future.  I'm not going to announce the date here but I'll announce it after it's happened.  Fortunately we are not being bombarded with unsolicited advice on what we should do.  We're going to do it our way.  Period.

 

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Don't forget to pet a dog or a cat.