• A year without another Washington-inspired war
• Congress-critters abandoning the notion that acting on problems is a zero-sum game
• Several yards of manure or rich compost for my veggies

I think there are several points missing:

• A new Perl project at work (getting paid for your hobby is always fun)
• World domination (think big!)
• Vacation
• Finally getting a girlfriend
• A better office at the monastery
• A new law approving the use of my chainsaw-based L.A.R.T.

BREW /very/strong/coffee HTTP/1.1
Host: goodmorning.example.com

418 I'm a teapot

My 2 year old sleeping through the night!

Definitely several personal projects:

In no particular order:

• Build out of new beer brewing setup incorporating two pumps, a plate wort chiller, motorized grain mill and HERMS.
• Scratch built kitchen cabinets
• Scratch built linen cabinet
• Finally fixing the hole in my family room ceiling

I'd be happy with just a plate chiller this year!

Bought the plate chiller last year but I haven't integrated into my setup yet. I thought I'd wait until I built the new setup since the old setup's days are numbered.

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... or more probably shortly after.

I think of the new year as nothing more than a day off. It's just some arbitrary date chosen to count solar revolutions. So, what's the big deal? I don't look forward to anything more today than i did yesterday.

Nonetheless, corporate budgets are also renewed on this date, and that means the possibility of new hires. Therefore, the way i see it, "A new job / career move" is the only choice with any real meaning here.

While you are technically correct (it's just another day), it nevertheless is the date when most people take some time to look back and to think what needs to be changed. So for those it's more than just another day.

And (at least in Germany) New Years Day is the end of the celebration-time, starting around Christmas. With much great food and more alcohol than in regular times. Thus for me "getting back in shape" is the first goal in this year. Especially as the whole family plans to participate in this event (german only).

Happy New Year to all of you! Rata

I've never understood why nobody celebrates New Month's Days? OK, so they're more frequent, but what if I only celebrate them one twelfth as much?

I've never understood why nobody celebrates New Month's Days?

Because it's a solar calendar. Month's are merely a convenience. That would be like celebrating a new hour because it's more often than a day.

People who use the lunar calendar, however, do celebrate each new month. And considering there's a few billion of those people, it gets its fair share.

Some people think the ancient Mayan calendars predict the end of the world on or about 21 December 2012 but I understand that the people most likely to know, the current Mayans, think this is a great distortion of their ancestors' beliefs.

For Harold Camping, most likely!

fnord