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aeronca65t

aeronca65t

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Got any New Years Resolutions?

For me...

1-Excercise more~I lost 40 lbs in '06 (by eliminating snack food), so this is the next step. I hate exercise.

2-Less TV~I canceled cable TV at our lake house this year and I watch very little at our townhouse

3-More Radio~National Public Radio suits me better than TV anyway.

4-A little less internet~I feel the need to get on with more "real world" car and aircraft projects. Also, My folks need me more and I'm keen to spend more time with my daughters and sons-in-law (especially since the fellows want to get more into road racing).

5-More community involvement~I do some....I could do more.

6-More reading~I just read "Truman" and I just started "The Greatest Generation".

7-Listen more~I'm making a personal effort to talk to more people that I disagree with (and face-to-face.....NOT over the internet). These days, I feel like we live in a very polarized society and I think that's a great pity. I'm doing this not so much to change my own mind, but to understand others better.

Anyone else?
 
After reading the locally supplied "Parade" in the Sunday paper, I decided my New Year Resolution would be ...

<u><span style="color: #FF0000">NOT</span> </u>to race in the Indianaplois 500!

There, I done it ... a resolution I KNOW I can comply with!

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Some are similar some are 180 degrees out from yours:

1. Excercise more. I don't need to loose weight, but do need to be fitter than I am.

2. Less "Network" TV (a lifetime of the <span style="color: #663300">Big Three</span> was enough; thank God I have other choices now), but more of certain other cable channels I've have migrated to.

3. More <s>NPR</s> of my favorite <u>Talk Radio</u> shows (never mind - we won't go there).

4. A little less internet. I feel the need to get on with more "real world" car projects. (Ok, this one applies to me as well). I have not touched my <span style="color: #3333FF">Jaguar</span> at all and I aim to change that in 07. I also plan to get my Spitfire back on the road and use it as my daily driver this summer.

5. More community involvement. Yep, always a good thing. I plan to teach Family-to-Family again (its a NAMI thing) also going to organize another neighborhood cleanup like I did two years ago. Some in my neighborhood wanted me to run for School Board, but I travel too much for that.

6. More reading~ (me too) I am currently reading <u>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People</u> and just finished the <u>Complete History of WWII</u> (for the second time). Next on my list is <u>The Purpose Driven Life</u>. I have several others on my list to read by prominent, high-selling authors <u>whose views I enjoy</u> and who seem to agree with the place I have arrived at in my own views (which slowly <span style="color: #3366FF">changed</span> over the years from me being one thing to being almost the complete opposite, ala the wisdom of Winston Churchill if you need a hint). They shall remain nameless lest it cause certain members here to have an impulsive reaction to run screaming from the room! (I am such a very thoughtful guy that way LOL)

7. Finish certain home projects: Complete the transformation of my oldest son's former room to my new "BCF Headquarters" office; Install oak flooring in the hallway that matches what I installed in my "office." Replace the broken front screen door on my house; Clean and organize (for zillionth time) my garage.

<span style='font-family: Century Gothic'><span style="color: #FF0000">8. Go out to my garage NOW and gather the items I'm donating to Goodwill and get them there before they close at 6PM today so I can have at least a little bit of a tax writeoff!</span> </span>


Ok, thats it, I'm going to the garage now!
 
After my physical in October, my cholesterol was 280. At 33 I will give that some attention instead of just taking an extra Lipitor with the forth bratwurst.
As a rule, I have the will power of a 6 year old in a candy store so the following will be adhered to:
I will finish my research paper by July.
I will bring my cholesterol down 100 points in 12 months.
 
Lose another twenty more pounds on top of the twenty two years ago.

I also won't worry so much about what others may say because while trying to lose the next twenty pounds nobody is gonna want to talk to me anyhow anyway if I'm as pleasant and easy going as the last time.
 
I've been thinking of my list this morning as well:

1. Better health: About 6 years ago I lost around 40#, best thing I ever did. The worst was allowing about 20# of that to creep back on over the last year and a half. Starting today, it's going away again.

2. Better life balance: When I started the Car Quest 2 years ago, I funneled all of my music income into saving for a car. I now feel like I've gone a bit too far, as my playing has become too much just for the money. Time to reel it in a bit and balance my music (#1 passion in life) with all the other things I like to do. This is sort of a constant resolution.

3. More romance: With a busy schedule, day job, gigs at night, Bugeye on the weekends, it's easy to skip a bit on the quality time with my wife. Too important to let slide, so it's time to focus a bit here.
 
1. Lose 25 lbs

2. Spend less of my personal time at the university working on things that will never get done anyway because of the giant socialist bureaucracy.

3. Take part of that personal time spent at the university and spend it more on my own capitalist endeavors - car paintings /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif And freelance

4. Take another part of that time and give it back to my family. 4 is a higher priority than 3.

5. Take just a portion of that time and get just a tiny bit more sleep.

6. Give more to charity/community this year than last.

7. Spend less - save more

8. I'm a good time manager, but I could be better.

9. Do a few more seemingly meaningless things with my boys - those times generally turn out to be the most meaningful

10. Get the old 1960's Eldon slot car set up and running for the boys.
 
1. Get my MGB and my Alfa running again.

2. Save money for a downpayment on some land.

3. Get all my other cars in top condition.

4. Go sailing more than I did last year (a whole 2 times).

5. Cut back, or quit smoking.

6. Eat healthier.

7. Learn every new thing I can.

8. Get out and travel more.

9. Keep the house cleaner.

10. Pass it on.

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For me it's back on the bicycle three days a week.
Have the Midget running well enough to drive it somewhere.

Be more balanced in everything.

Of course,like most resolutions,I'll probably not keep them.

Stuart.
 
I'll make a list... pin it up to the shed wall, then throw a handful of darts at it... mebbe one of the "hits" will appeal to me. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
I used to do resolutions, and ending up with nothing.

What I do now is give myself two and only two things to work on accomplishing.

Now its finish the welding on the Big Healey by April first, and lose weight... and keep it off (so maybe that qualifies as three resolutions?).
 
Lose 10 pounds.
Excercise.
Get the TD running.
Finish 2 more rooms in the house.
Sheetrock the garage.
 
Most of mine are finishing things that I've already begun.

1. Lower Blood Pressure, balance triglycerides, and actually exercise. (I've talked to a nutritionist to learn all the things I've been ignoring from my wife for 12 years.)

2. Work more on the house. It is sort of demanding it.

3. Ditto MG.

4. Ditto Escort.

5. Finish novel. I wanted to make it get novel published, but I can only make it the best book I can; getting it accepted by a publishing house is an entirely different monkey, and out of my control.

BTW: For those of us improving diets and/or losing weight, this website offers several benefits, including the chance to win a million dollars.

https://health.discovery.com/BodyChallenge/index.jsp

Good luck
 
Finish the GarageMahal!!!

Actually, last night I finished the Midget room & got the '76 1500 Midget moved into it!
 
1. Get back to a daily walking routine. LR completed this really cool pedestrian bridge across the Arkansas river last Sept. (It goes over the top of the lock and Dam hence the name- Big Dam Bridge) that connects 19 miles of biking and walking paths aroulnd the cities of LR and NLR. Since the grand opening, it has been overcrowded and not too much fun to navigate, I vow to get back on the path and start doing my 1 hour evening walks over the big dam bridge.

2. Get the Midget running tip top so I can drive it every afternoon to the park for my walk.

3. Finish remodeling the kitchen.

4. Take down the paneling and sheet rock the den downstairs. Also upgrade the bathroom/laundry room.

5. Avoid letting the little stuff bother me and try deep breathes before responding to stupid people and stupid questions. ( I know, I know...there's no such thing as a stupid question. Whoever said that never taught 8th grade)
 
Oh, on the list of books, I had better read the one I got from the wife for Christmas: <u>The Mr and Mrs Happy Handbook</u> by Steve Doocy.
 
terriphill said:
LR completed this really cool pedestrian bridge across the Arkansas river last Sept. (It goes over the top of the lock and Dam hence the name- Big Dam Bridge) that connects 19 miles of biking and walking paths aroulnd the cities of LR and NLR.
Click to expand...

Does that go anywhere near "Toad Suck Park"?
 
I'm with you Doc!! There are so many things I HAVE to do/get done, that resolutions just, well, you know...

Having just become a cancer-survivor (throat cancer) I will urge those of you above who cited "smoking less or quitting" to just QUIT!! I generally do not preach, but it really aint worth suporting the tobacco co.s I mean even their racing sponsorship is down the tubes nowadays, put your bucks into LBCs.

By the way Doc, I have been meaning to ask, is it tougher or easier without a reverse option? (re: entropy!!)
 
Actually Toad suck is outside of Conway,AR about 30 miles northwest of LR. LR is in the central part of the state but its cool you have heard of Toad Suck, Arkansas!
 
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