{"id":346,"date":"2001-01-01T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:57:21","slug":"2001_a_sparks_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/01\/01\/2001_a_sparks_o\/","title":{"rendered":"2001: A Spark\u2019s Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"

This new year came in quietly but wonderfully,<\/strong> as I stayed home, huddled away from the cold, opting to curl up on the couch with some movies and a cute boy who knows how to kiss rather than give in to the pressure to go out and par-tay<\/i> with the drunken revellers in the cold. It was a good note to start things off with. It was also nice to have a totally pleasant and relaxing night in the wake of the last horrible month.<\/p>\n

I feel some sort of nebulous obligation to do a year-end wrap-up, but frankly that would be dull and redundant considering how thoroughly I\u2019ve documented the year here. All in all, it was OK, with the usual amount of ups, downs, and change that I\u2019ve come to expect in my life. If nothing else, I don’t sit still or settle into routine for very long.<\/p>\n

Rather than dwell on the last year \u2014 there\u2019s no point, seeing as I still don\u2019t have a rocket car or a sleek pod-home on the moon \u2014 let\u2019s think about the next. I don\u2019t like the idea of resolutions, since they\u2019re so easily broken. I like Andy<\/a>\u2019s idea of using a slogan as a guiding principle for the year, but it\u2019s his schtick, and he already used the best one for this last year: \u201cLess talk, more rock.\u201d I guess the best thing for me, eternally bogged down by an endless list of projects to think about, would be to make an effort to reorder my long-term to-do list. so here, as of Janury 1, 2001, are the things that I would like to make higher priorities on the list:<\/p>\n