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Resolutions

Eliminate something superfluous from your life.

This one really, really hurt. I’m significantly cutting gaming from my life for a year: Magic, D&D, chess, Wii, Kongregate.

Magic, in particular, dominated my leisure-time play and spending from 2003-2007.

Simply, Elizabeth needs my “free” time more than Magic does.

Break a habit.

My evening (from the time I get home from work to the time I go to sleep) and morning (from the time my alarm goes off to the time I get out of bed to the time I become productive at work) routines do not work anymore.

I don’t have a good plan to change this yet. But it needs to change so I have Elizabeth time, Erika time, and Me time in my life.

Do something that makes you feel insecure.

I’m starting to program again. At work in front of professionals who are much better at it than I am.

In most things in life I’ve always been a leader or at the head of the class. But I’ve never been very good at telling computers what to do. This failing has led to me avoiding and delegating tasks that really need custom solutions. For personal satisfaction and professional development reasons I dug out my old, disgustingly second-hand copy of K&R (who highlights books? Write in the margins: OK. But highlight?) and started working through all the exercises again. I have Windows via C/C++, the 5th Edition of Windows Internals, and Mac OS X Internals pending expense approval.

(I should point out that I am good at analyzing human-computer and business-computer interaction.)

Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last.

I am raising Elizabeth.