{"id":247,"date":"2008-12-31T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-01-15T01:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T05:05:45","slug":"my-2009-plan-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"My 2009 Plan File"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2008 was Not My Favorite Year. Too many deaths, too many illnesses, too many trips to the dentist, and too many financial collapses. I have high hopes for 2009, but that&#8217;s part &amp; parcel of being a Pollyanic Old Catholic. Hey, when you&#8217;re down this far, every direction is up, right?<\/p>\n<p>So in this, the last (I sincerely hope) Contra entry that I will ever edit by hand, I present my plan file for the coming year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get Contra settled in to its new home on contrapositivediary.com under the WordPress platform. Easy one, though we&#8217;ll know more tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>Begin and complete the rewrite of <em>Assembly Language Step By Step<\/em> for the Third Edition, and hopefully see it into print by the spring of 2010. This is a big-un, and the top priority, as there is considerable money riding on it.<\/li>\n<li>Finish and publish <em>Cold Hands and Other Stories<\/em>, my second SF collection. Richard Bartrop has already sent me sketches for the cover art, and they look great. As soon as I can get &#8220;Drumlin Wheel&#8221; completed and cleaned up, I have enough material for a book, and after that, finishing it the book is just a few days of focused work.<\/li>\n<li>Finish <em>Old Catholics<\/em>, or at least get another 50,000 words into it. (I have about 27,000 words down now.) This has been fun, and it&#8217;s certainly the quirkiest thing I&#8217;ve ever attempted to write.<\/li>\n<li>Build a couple of radios. I have the schematic for John Baumann KB7NRN&#8217;s 2-tube FM BCB receiver, and that&#8217;s tops on the list.<\/li>\n<li>Get my 40M dipole out of my alarm system&#8217;s hair and do some hamming on the low bands.<\/li>\n<li>Get a 6M vertical of some sort situated in the attic.<\/li>\n<li>Get the last crown installed in my mouth. (This should happen in early February.) That&#8217;s the end of a miserably massive piece of oral rehab that begin in January 2008, and (mercifully) this last step involves no cutting.<\/li>\n<li>Finish and launch a couple of model rockets with the local club.<\/li>\n<li>Read Many Books.<\/li>\n<li>Eat Less Sugar. Eat More Meat. Lose More Weight. (More on this shortly.)<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy the immediate presence of my wife, my dogs, and this extravagantly beautiful world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other things will certainly happen along the way, and maybe half of the above list will not happen, though I have great faith in the second item and complete faith in the last.<\/p>\n<p>As for tonight, well, Carol and I will remain at home, watch a movie, brush dogs, and maybe have a glass of wine. There&#8217;s a decent conjunction of the Moon and Venus just after sunset, and I intend to gawk at that a little. Come midnight, I may jump up and yell &#8220;Bang!&#8221; in honor of fireworks, if I&#8217;m still awake. (If I&#8217;m not still awake, the kids down on Villegreen will handle it for me, and I&#8217;ll be awake one way or another.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year from both of us; like, how hard could <em>that<\/em> be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2008 was Not My Favorite Year. Too many deaths, too many illnesses, too many trips to the dentist, and too many financial collapses. I have high hopes for 2009, but that&#8217;s part &amp; parcel of being a Pollyanic Old Catholic. Hey, when you&#8217;re down this far, every direction is up, right? 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