Resolving to endeavor to persevere...

I've noticed for some time now that the period between New Years Days doesn't seem to be near as long as it used to seem. I read somewhere the reason is that the older we get to be, the less a year amounts to as a percentage of our lives. When we are 10 years old, a year represents a 10th of our lives, but when we are 50, it only represents a 50th of it. I've reached the point where a year represents even a significantly smaller portion than that.

I'm not really complaining. I still manage to fit quite a bit into a year. In 2011, I took Susan on a cruise to Mexico for our 35th anniversary. I promised to go back and get her for our 40th.

We survived a pretty nasty ice storm:

I managed to meet on of my favorite Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson:


I got to watch some really exciting baseball:


And basketball:

We were able to attend several plays and musicals:

And even squeezed in a field trip or two:

I was able to get my first book published:

And kept the family off of motorcycles, for the most part:

Susan was elected Hagerstown Town Court Judge for the third time:

And we started building someone a new house, something that hasn't happened for a couple of years.

All in all, 2011 was a pretty good year, but I thought I better make a couple of resolutions for 2012. I know it's going to go by quicker than last year, so I'm going to try to spend a little more time on what's important, and a little less time on what isn't.

I'm definitely going to spend more time with my grandchildren, as long as they will put up with me.

I'm going to drink more water and less pop.

I'm still going to write and campaign, trying to convince people who will listen that more freedom and less government is more desirable than less freedom and more government. But I'm not going to let people who don't want to believe that upset me quite as much.

Because I don't have as much time as I used to have.

And I'm going to try to remember where I left Susan.