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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
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Try to feel more settled in my new city. Build on the new friendships I've made and seek out new people and experiences.
That is all.
For the first time in my life, I have started carrying cash. And when I buy something at a local store, I pay cash.
Sometimes I use my credit card in a restaurant -- chain, or over-the-top stupid expensive (I'm talking about you, Mickey Mantle's steakhouse in Bricktown, Oklahoma City -- although it was the best steak I've ever had in my life) -- then the tip is always always always paid in cash.
Keep the bucks circulating in the community, rather than going to the banks.
There are ATMS everywhere now.
Easier said than done, I've been prepping for a bunch of things lately and all the nonfiction books are dreadfully dull.
Since we just moved here (D.C.) a couple of months ago and hardly know anyone here, it couldn't really happen today. Maybe that should be my resolution: Make enough friends here this year to make that feasible next year.
This one came to me while watching "Nebraska" last night.
Be more active in my community.
Improve my sex skills. And my harp skills. And my tatting skills. And my sewing skills.
Find a third lover !
Repair everything in my home. Do the house chores in time. And then, invite more often people home.
séduisant chère
vous ne postez pas ici assez souvent.
Mine: drink less, exercise more. Maybe start smoking weed on the reg as a replacement vice for booze.
And ignore obvious trolls like @39. (If written as satire, though, it's very good. A+ if that is the case. F- otherwise.)
Thanks ! Er... Do we know each other yet ? Care to register ?
Que cette année vous soit douce et légère, cher Inconnu(e).
We're the adults and need to protect kids until they can make their own choices.
You may believe privacy is eroding but everyone has a line. This is mine.
(And, pray every day for people who are fighting cancer.)
hélas
nous devons toujours demeurer non enregistrée
Be a good father.
Do good work at work and at home.
One drop of real knowledge
would destroy the little world
you've built in that thimble of beliefs.
...here's hoping a monsoon of knowledge, wisdom and understanding washes over you in the coming year. May your emptiness become apparent to you. May you know your thirst, your hunger. May you be filled.
Also, I aim to continue being a crotchety old fart on every online forum I participate in. Including Slog.
Lastly, I will continue using two spaces after a period. Because that's just right.
Oh, and really lastly, ride more with the goal of doing a century this year (or before I die). I did a half-century before turning 50 (barely) so it's possible. Or I could die. The universe is strikingly random that way.
Lastly (for real this time) dress more for dinner too. A real dinner at the table too. Not with plates balanced on knees with the boob tube blaring manufactured crap at us, as Mrs. Dr. Awesome prefers.
Continue to love, myself included.
@55
Best of luck neighbs, fat AND stupid is no way to go through life.
Moments like this make me wish SLOG had a message system to ping someone. I realize how ripe for abuse such a system would be, so it ain't happening. Still.
Resolutions: be healthier, drink more water & MAKE MORE ART. (& writings.)
@61 - I wish this too for the same reasons.