Relaunch Attempted

Each time that I start one of these blogs, on Blogspot, Xanga, and now, WordPress, I have this lofty goal of keeping up with it.  I have to be honest, I don’t do very well.  I have good intentions, I guess, but in the end, something always seems to get in the way…  work, social commitments, apathy, etc.  Time management is something that I personally need to work on, I guess.  I have always said that busy is an excuse for people that can not manage their time.  The definition falls quite close to home.

I don’t like making New Years Resolutions.  They are pointless, really.  January 1 is no different than, say, June 24.  Each of these days are on their own page of the calendar, but honestly, the days are similar.  The sun rises in the eastern sky, sets in the western sky.  Granted, there is a higher probability that you will wake up with a headache the morning of January 1.  No headache here this morning, which is nice, but today feels no different that any other day of the past couple of weeks, minus Christmas Day.

So much is put on this day as a new beginning, but should it be that way?  The world has the opportunity to restart every morning.

Maybe this is the year that we will see that new political beginning.  The ugliness of the political campaign of the last 2 years is mostly over, except for the people are still hell bent on smearing Sarah Palin if given the opportunity.  By the way that some react, you would think that the words Sarah Palin elicits some sort of spasmodic spinal reaction.  The politics of divisiveness has not worked in the last 16 years, and it would be nice to see a change.

Maybe this is the year that we see a 16-team tournament to determine the National Champion in College Football.  One can grow weary of sports commentators postulating that if Team A beats Team B by enough points that they are automatically better than Team C or D.  Even watching the Rose Bowl this evening seemed like more of a 3-plus hour political commercial for USC being the AP National Champion.  The BCS system does not work, and it would be nice to see a change.

There is no difference in life, either.  We all have the opportunity to hit the restart button each morning.  I’m not so interested in hitting restart in some arenas of life, but I would like to see some possible debugging.  Hopefully this can be an outlet for that debugging process.  It would be nice to achieve some kind of clarity, as there are some facets in life that need clarity.  It will most probably start with a reduction in clutter, which by attempting to create here, am I really producing less clutter in my life?  My answer tonight is yes, but only time will tell if that answer is correct.

Who knows what this will become over time?  I have had this desire to create for the last couple years, and I hope that this is the attempt that finally becomes that something that I create or leads me in the direction where I will create.  I know that it all comes down to me and my effort.