1/1/11- New Year's Conjecture

Another decade down! The ten second ball drop, although arbitrary and a human construct, allows for one to reminisce of the year passed and wonder what the next will hold. It is a time where one remembers what is important to them because after all, we only have our memories and experiences as comfort and guidance in this game called life.

The Mayan calendar ends sometime next year.... (ominous music)
Other, more rational schools of thought realize that on a calendar written on limited space, it must end when there's no more room to write. Plus its hard to take a doomsday prophecy from something that looks like it belongs next to the silver monkey in the Legends of the Hidden Temple.

Anti-climactic, I know. All this speculation about the future makes me laugh at the best laid plans of mice and men. How many times I planned every detail only to have my preparation be in vain.

Bar-tending is tremendous fun, and I wonder how many other positions I will have in the next 365 days, and where life will take me as I continue to research how to travel and work venture in worldly enterprise and exploration.

What does the year hold for you? What are your New Year's Resolutions? Your goals, hopes, expectations?
I want to run a marathon with my brother. Sounds simple enough, and it's going to test my physical endurance but much more my mental discipline.

Here's to you, brother: