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Saturday, January 01, 2005

Happy New Year

Well, another year has come and gone with its variety of events both positive and negative as well as successes and failures. Hopefully I've been able to enjoy the successes and learn from the failures so that this year's experiences will be more positive where I can do something to affect them and I can have interactions that more profoundly impact those arouond me for the good.

I'd love to tell you about all the fun I had on New Year's Eve but it was pretty quiet around our household owing, in large part, to a persistent cold I picked up in Salt Lake. This is one of those yucky nasal weight loss colds with borderline voice loss that really wears you down. It effects how I sleep (or more accurately how I don't sleep) and how much energy I have. Typical cold remidies seem to do little more than hold the symptoms at bay through the middle of the day which allows me to train a little and do a little housework but not much else.

I did get my first mountain bike ride in about two months in yesterday. I went out to Dauset and just took it easy. What really surprised me was that I only had to put my foot down once in 90 minutes. I would have thought I'd have been a lot rustier than that. Of course, I wasn't pushing myself at all but I was still pleased that I seemed to have retained some of the skills I developed last year.

I'm not sure if I have too many resolutions yet. I have some goals in mind but I don't know about resolutions. I think I'd like to read a lot more and I'd like to get one paper published from some of the research I've been doing. I think my biggest secular resolution is going to be to be more prepared for class this year so that I spend less time feeling like everything is so last minute. My other big goal is to work to get the GCF worship time to grow into what we think it can be. Not just in numbers but in format and positive influence in people's lives.

Anyways, all the best to you and yours in the coming year and may the Lord bless you in ways you didn't expect.

Thanks for reading.

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