New Year's Eve

Had a great time at parties on NYE. First went to glovercom's White Trash party. Every year I know fewer and fewer people there. Nice to meet new people, including chriskomater. Too many LJ'ers out on NYE to list. Great to see so many. After a couple hours there, Steve, Witten, Rhoda and I hiked up to Bill M's party. None of us had been to his new condo. Wow. Very nice. Great deck with great views. Great men at his party. Steve and I headed out to the LS later than I wanted, and we had to wait in line. About 11:50pm, Jeff lets most everyone in line enter. The bar wasn't as crowded as in previous years. Had a great time there, too.

After three great celebrations, the rest of night sucked. It was pouring rain when we left, and we had no umbrella. No way we'd catch a taxi from there, since there were 20 people waiting for them down the block in front of the Stud. Aha! I remembered that the taxi company is located across from Costco on 9th Street. We walked there, only to realize they had moved. Grrrrrrr. Waited some more. Finally got a #9 bus to 16th Street. Caught a #22 bus from there to Church & Market. Walked home in the pouring rain from there. Steve was such a good sport about it. I've walked home in the rain from Bearhug previously, so no big deal, but I was just awed by Steve. Good boy.

New Year's Day

2004. Wow. Another new year. It's been one year since I've started blogging. I'm glad I've done it.

Got up yesterday and was busy. Did dishes, laundry, and took down all the Xmas stuff.

Went to Witten's at 2pm for lunch. It was us and Rhoda. David made the best split sea soup I've ever had. I usually don't care for it, but this was great. Very filling. We sat and chatted for a few hours. Drank lots of wine. Got home and watched some TV, then I went to bed early, around 10pm.

New Year's Resolutions

I resolve to:

• Drink more water.  I drink lots of diet soda, which I think is just fine, but it interferes with my water intake.  Water does a body good.  I won't quantify my water intake, but I'll try to limit my soda intake to 2 days or less per week.
• Have caffeine-free days each week.  I have caffeine daily.  Sometimes too much.  I resolve to have one or two days per week sans caffeine.
• Take more pictures.  I have not added new pics to my website in a long time.  Getting fat and ugly has cut down my picture taking of myself.  Few of the pics on my site look like me.  More pics will mean less denial?
• More square dance smiles.  It's hard to smile when you're in a bad square, but I resolve to smile more frequently.