New Year's Resolutions for 2009

In following one of the oldest memes, my goals for 2009:

1. Personal Fitness: Run a 7 minute mile, continue advancement in martial arts.
I think a 7 minute mile should be doable, I'd really like to push that lower, but if I aim too high, it might knock the goal altogether. For martial arts, I'd like to start doing Yoga and hit at least the rank preceding black belt.

2. Bucket List: Create new bucket list and accomplish at least 2 entries this year
I've pretty much finished my 'things I couldn't do as a JW' list, and so I'm starting now on a new bucket list. Some current entries: horseback riding, driving a race car, playing a venue, sky diving, bungee jumping, trip to Europe, skiing. Last year I managed (among other things): singing karaoke, bar/pub crawl, working at a haunted house.

3. Blog: Post more often
I think my goal will be to manage an average of 3 posts every 2 weeks.

4. Relationships: Do better than in '08
'nuff said.

5. Financial: Knock out one of my college debt accounts
'nuff said.

6. Personal Appearance: Move from "I buy clothes" to having a style
'nuff said.

7. General: Finish unpacking
I STILL have boxes I haven't unpacked from my original move to Dallas, from my move to South KC, and from my move to my new apartment. I really want to knock these out and make my current apartment feel less temporary.

8. Hobbies: Have Something to show for a writing project at the end of '09
This is straight forward. At the end of '09, I'd like to at least have something I can point to and say I'm working on for writing. I'm tired of scratching up some paper and having nothing to talk about. I should at least have the mythical "novel I'm writing" for the past year.

9. Hobbies: Release Self Hosting Microkernel
This is pure nerd that'll make most people's eyes glaze over. I'm about 25% of the way there to being self hosting, and I'd like to be able to show off this tech, especially as I've been hacking on it so long.

10. Life: Figure out what I really want to be doing in 10 years.
I'm very much burned out from doing software dev day to day. It's not the computer that bothers me, it's the general work environment that software devleopment happens in, the concerns associated with it, the egos, everything. At this point, I still have the opportunity to plan for and manage a change in my life, so need to figure out what I'd like to be. Continue in software? Make up for the day to day monotony in other ways? I don't expect to accomplish this one, but, we'll see....