{"id":8043,"date":"2014-01-01T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2015-01-09T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:50:04","slug":"resolutions-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2014\/01\/01\/resolutions-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Lord Henry in\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0by Oscar Wilde<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Read 52 books.<\/strong> Yeah, I know. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, I read more than this. I like the number because it is a book a week. And ends up being about 20,000 pages each year.\n<ul>\n<li>Think another stipulation is at least <strong>30 need to be physical books I already own<\/strong>. Not to knock the Kindle, but I have been on a buying spree of public domain (aka free) books because of it. I have at least ten maybe fifteen linear feet of unread books, so I need to make a significant dent in that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ride 10 miles a week April to October.<\/strong> I do not even own a bike at this point, so this means figuring out some things. I&#8217;m figuring buy a bike by March and averaging 10 miles a week for half a year is a reasonable start.<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">Declutter.<\/strong><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"> Maybe take this a month at a time. Bedroom1, bedroom closet 1, living room, bedroom2, bedroom closet 2, dining room, kitchen, laptop, 1TB external drive, 1.5TB ext drive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Take a trip 300 miles away from home.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Work conference does not count. It might be to visit family, but the distance ensures my home town does not count.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As usual, I am going to shy away from things like dieting, cooking, or joining a gym which I know are so counter to my habits they are pointless. Gives me an idea for tomorrow&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>Old resolutions: <a href=\"\/wplog\/2013\/01\/01\/resolutions-2013\/\">2013<\/a>, <a href=\"\/wplog\/2012\/01\/01\/resolutions-2012\/\">2012<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Edit \u00e2\u20ac\u01532011 Resolution List\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2011\/01\/01\/2011-resolutions\/\">2011<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/01\/01\/ny-res-2010\/\">2010<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/01\/02\/resolutions-for-2009\/\">2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2014\/12\/31\/resolution-progress-2014-end\/\">Followup<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Lord Henry in\u00c2\u00a0The Picture of Dorian Gray\u00c2\u00a0by Oscar Wilde Read 52 books. Yeah, I know. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, I read more than this. 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