New Years

It's that time of year where people decided that they need a "New Years resolution." As if New Years actually signified anything more than another reason to have a huge party. It's a day. That's all. We celebrate the day as it is based on Roman calendars, but it's doesn't really signify a whole lot beyond that. IT has no deeper meaning.


And I'm sure everyone has heard this and still everyone picks New Years as  a day to turn over a new leaf. Why not yesterday or three months ago. Until someone puts it in your face "make a resolution," we seldom stop ourselves to reflect on what it is we don't like about who we are or what we're doing.

And if that's what it takes, if you need the anchors on the Today Show to imply to you that you should have a resolution in order for self-reflection, I guess I am glad that the ritual still persists.

I'm always setting and redefining goals as the days slip by. New ones arise old ones morph, and I'm left with a new direction.

But I have no New Years Resolution. Because I've been making resolutions everyday since I heard some punk band ask me if I knew myself. Nope, I don't. But I don't really care to meet me anytime soon. It's be a disaster.

As for climbing, well, I'm floating about in San Francisco. I've gone to a climbing gym 3 times in the last 2 weeks. And I went out to Castle rock to boulder once. IT wasn't that exciting. The rock was soft (broke some), the guide book I had led me in all the wring ways, and frankly I'd rather be back in Bishop. Not to say I didn't have fun. But it's hard to drink Scotch that's been aged for 30 years and then resolve to drinking Southern Comfort.

Meanwhile I've been trying my damnedest to squeeze my way into the publishing world, and it has been rough and unsuccessful, to say the least. The only think that makes me happy about the thought of my failure thus far is that I've at least been trying. I may be unemployed, but it's not as though I haven't been trying to find work of sorts. I don't even cared to get paid for my writing so much as just getting it recognized in some way. Enough of this sass.

I'll be heading back to Bishop within the week (hopefully). And I have my sights in Go Granny Go V5, the Iron Man Traverse V4, Junior's Achievement V8.  There may also be some problems in the Happy Boulder that I should return to as well, though they are escaping me.

That's it. Hopefully my car wont break down on they way.