Up Late

I'm in bed with the Simpsons on, but despite my desire to sleep, my body isn't having it which is gonna end up as a rough morning. I'm playing with my blackberry trying different apps. I was cruisin twitter for a while (you can follow me @KevinDHunt) and now I'm attempting to updated the blog from my blackberry. We'll see how this works. It may be good for my ideas (see previous post) and I can just post them when I they come to my head cause they always seem to disappear as quickly as they come.

The Non-Resolution Resolution

Here it is. I finally did it.

I didn't really have a New Years resolution for a few reasons. The first is because the most popular resolutions are often ones that people have no intention of keeping. It is probably why the gym is going to be packed this week and I'm going to have to wait for someone to finish their 15 minute walk in order to get a nice run in, but by the time Valentine's Day comes around the place will be back to its normal attendance figures. This then turns into another reason not to make resolutions, the realization of failure. How many years can one have the same resolution before they realize the pointlessness of the whole situation and instead of sticking to a point of self-improvement, the demoralizing setback of failure works in complete contrast to the actual goal of the resolution, which is to feel better about one's self by taking steps to eliminate negative personality traits? I realize that sticking to and making successful resolutions will be rewarding on many levels, but what percentage of resolutions are actually realized? And is the risk of "resolution failure" high enough and are the detrimental effects of not realizing the goal strong enough to make New Year's resolutions an ill-fated pursuit?

With that all said, here is my New Year's resolution: this blog. Well, the resolution itself is not to create a blog, it is to start acting upon ideas I have more frequently. Often I come up with ideas, plans or stories and they just fade away without ever being explored. One of these interests I had recently was to start a blog, but that faded after about a week. Now I have decided that starting a blog might just be the IDEA to get all other ideas started. If I'm thinking of something, I can record it here and revisit it at a better time and determine whether its actually something worth exploring or its just another one of my inane thoughts that have no basis in reality. Unfortunately, I seem to be fond of that later.

I will be posting random thoughts here about politicians and businessmen I both admire and loathe. But along with using these words as stones in this glass house of a blog, I will also be posting new and old music that I feel needs sharing, links to news articles, clips of shows and other random internetty stuff. But mostly, I will be recording the things that only sort of make sense in my head and maybe one day I will be able to put them all together and create a masterpiece. I'm hoping that one day I will find the keystone of my thoughts that will make them all fit together and I will be able to sketch out my idea for an utopian universe.

Or maybe Valentine's Day will come and I'll just forget this whole thing even exists and feel bad about not following through.

Here's to 2010! And this is where I wish I was when it began.