New Year's Eve
So it's New Year's Eve. 2006 looms upon the horizon, my future and it doesn't feel like the future. I'm not talking flying cars and jetpacks with vacations on the shore of a terraformed Mars's northern sea. Regular people have Star Trek communicators that send and receive pictures and movies and texts even though the signal strength isn't great enough to reach high orbit. Computers and their networks are at the top of the technological food chain. Sadly robots instead of humans are roving the faces of distant worlds which share our sun.

I don't know if it's due to the fact that the changes are so gradual that there really isn't any technological shock to the system. Perhaps it's stuff that's been done before but just wrapped up in a shinier package.

Feels like yesterday was the start of 2005. Time really flies when one gets old. The days leading up to Christmas were a veritable juggernaut. A blink of the eye later and the New Year is here which brings us back to the original topic.

For 2006, I hope that raddidge is still with me in the capacity that she's always been with me. Now and again I get anxious, mostly late at night, but damn it I want to do things right because I have found the right person. I hope that 2006 remains a profitable year for me. Lately I've been feeling like I've been slipping and I keep shovelling unreasonable demands on myself. Finally I want to find some direction in my life so I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. It's out there but I have to get off my fat ass and find it.

Happy New Year to you from Spot and me.