I have a tradition of spending the week between Christmas and New Years away from my office. I still put in at least half a day of work each day, but I do it here at home, which makes it more bearable.
Still, it means I have lots of free time on my hand, and I have found that when I have lots of time, I generally get nothing at all done. So it has been this week, as I have spent my time reading, idly roaming the net, and generally lazing around.
Tonight my wife and I expect to live up to another of our venerable traditions. Each New Years Eve we do absolutely nothing. This year will be no exception. If we wanted, we could use the snow as an excuse, but I refuse to take the easy way out. No, we are doing nothing because we always do nothing. I have always had a sneaking suspicion that we are in the Silent Majority so far as New Year’s celebrations go, but of course I can’t prove it.
In any event, I have no intention of writing anything of substance tonight. I will recharge my batteries and hopefully come charging out of the starting block tomorrow. It’s a whole new year, and in a few weeks, we’ll have a new administration that might actually act in a relatively responsible fashion. I’m going to have to re-think my entire approach to this blog. To echo a famous American, I won’t have George Bush to kick around anymore. He made life easy for people like me, in a bizarre sort of way.
Anyone reading this tonight will no doubt be enjoying a New Years Eve as boring as my own. To each and every one of them, and to everyone else who happens upon this, Happy New Year one and all.
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