Happy New Year

 Happy New Year! I realize I probable do not have any regular readers on this blog anymore, given my sporadic postings and no postings since August of 2024, but I want to try and re-purpose and re-activate this blog. Given its name, I thought to re-purpose it as a travel blog of my travels around the United States, but given all the travel that Wife and I have done recently, we don't really plan to do a lot of traveling in the near future. I could re-purpose it as a cooking blog (inspired by love the movie "Julie & Julia", but that seems to be more a copycat sort of thing. In the coming year, I plan to experiment with some new ideas for this blog, or it could  become just something where I share weekly thoughts. I guess we shall see. 

There are some things I want to work on and accomplish in the new year and I'm going to list them here: 

  1. Find new opportunities and challenges in my professional life
  2. Improve my health and wellness
  3. Reduce my reliance on my mobile device and engage in a "digital detox"
  4. Improve my home improvement prowess and complete some long neglected home improvement projects. 
Anyway, Happy New Year and we'll see where this blog goes! 

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