So day two.
New Years eve day. the tables have been set, the food prepared, the champagne chilled and the expectation of what the new year brings.
I have no resolutions except to try to be better in all my endeavors and to stop swearing. It's truly ugly how it sounds and I have had enough of ugly.

I hope for the normal things. good health for friends and family, a peaceful and painless death for my mother in law who is now well in to the late stages of Alzheimers and for my father in law to get settled into a nice facility that will look after him accordingly.

We shall see what it brings, this year full of uncertainty and strive to do better in all things.
My high school Alma mater was Altiora, I seek higher things and that sums up how I feel about 2017.

It should be a pleasant evening some family and a few friends and I really wouldn't want it any other way.

Here's to 2017 and higher things.....

I don't feel like the opening of the Death cab for cutie song but some of the sentiment is there

So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogues bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that can hold us back

There'd be no distance that could hold us back 

So this is the new year...........

December 30th 2016

So as an exercise in consistency I am going to write an entry a day for the next 365 days. Mostly random thoughts on crap that occurs.

It will probably be stilted and unfocused because of the immediacy of the feelings. Perhaps there will be enough gems to mine a short story. I am not writing for an audience except myself. It will be a combination of fiction and true observations.
Not sure how personal, I suppose it depends on the day/time/event.

As the year closes many are saying it was the worst year ever!!!! some with many more exclamation points. I can only shrug and take a very cautious wait and see. In my opinion the worse of the two clowns won the political circus and he is quite the ringleader. The dissent in his own party gives me hope that perhaps we will have some check and balance and if women still have the right to vote after four years, I will take that as a win.
I shudder when I think of the Vice president and his arcane beliefs and hope that he essentially assumes of the role of most vice presidents and does basically nothing.

Aside from politics too many influential, entertaining and important people died this year which I believe served up a potent reminder that life is fleeting and should not be taken for granted. That's part of the reason why I decided to take on this endeavor.  My son tells me that I am wasting my English Literature degree and I ran out of excuses as to why I don't write so here I am.

That's all I have for today.