Adam V's Blog

I thought six months into the year would be an apropos time to revisit my resolutions for the year.  Let’s see how I did.

1. Work out five times a week.  This is the most unlikely of the bunch. I started after I left the University.  I haven’t quite hit the five times a week mark, and I’ve actually put on a little weight since starting.  But its defiantly more exercise than the zero I was doing before.  I’m worried that when I start up a new job it will fall by the wayside.
2. To figure out the bus routes to get to the Strip, the Southside, Shadyside, Oakland, and Squirrel Hill.  I think I have the last two already figured out though.
3. Grow more plants this year.  I’ve already sort of worked out how I’d like to approach this.  We had good success with Basil this last year, but the basil grew so large that it crowded my lavender.  So I think I’m going to grow a couple of different types of basil in their own box this year.  I might also branch out to tomatoes. See the previous post for more.
4. To replace at least three food/drinks I purchase at a store with made from scratch version.  This sort of goes along with my attempt to make cola in the previous entry.  Nope, nothing on this yet.
5. Read City of God, Confessions and De Trinitae in that order.  Haven’t even started.
6. Get good about going to Mass again.  Some success, not much.
7. Get to Dayton at least four or five times.  I have only made it there twice in the last year.  Doing better, but have only been there twice.

And I’m making the follow predictions.

1. My letters of recommendation won’t come through, meaning I won’t be admitted into DU’s theology program.  In spite of this I will remain an employee there until late Summer or early Fall. They definitely did not come:  prediction successful! A little off with the end date though.
2. We see color electronic ink start to be used in small scale products (watches, mp3 players, etc).  OLED TV’s and monitors become affordable.  MRAM shows up in embedded network devices (routers, etc).  Also, traditional hard drives will become a thing of the past, and will be replaced by Solid State Drives.  The solid state drives was probably a bit too optimistic, but OLED technology is heating up.  No word on MRAM
3. The economic situation will begin to improve in late Spring.  Nope
4. The tendency of the far left to feel betrayed by the Obama administration will be exacerbated. They have on some things, transparency wonks think he’s rolled back on a lot of thing, the abortion crowed is upset with his inactio of things, and there is some rumbling about his healthcare plan.
5. Obama’s approval rating will improve among conservatives as he establishes some centrist “street cred.”  Not sure, I’ll have to check the numbers
6. My wife will push for more flexibility in the workplace, and we’ll finally get to spend some more time together.  She got a new job with, hopefully, some better hours.
7. This will be an abysmal year for movies. Check!!!
8. We will discover that Bin Laden died of illness in late 2007.  No word yet