A year ago, to the day, I said that I would do a bunch of stuff in 2017.  I did OK, but not great. I could blame it on my old man hip, the surgery, or the recovery time, but mostly not getting stuff on the list done was all me. All my own laziness, stuborness, or my A+ skill level of procrastination. These are the promises I made to myself that I kept:

Take a pottery class
Take a Blacksmithing class at the Pratt
Read 1 book every 2 weeks – minimum
Play my uke, banjo, and guitar with others
Give lots of $$ to Heifer and MFS
Make movies and post: Adventure, craftsmanship, and family.
Make Stuff!!
Ride my skateboard because I am not too old or too fat
Road trip in WA more
Take my wife on vacation
Plant a spring garden
Fix up the front and back yards

The following is what I am committing myself to do in 2018:

1. Organize my chaos in the shop and basement.
2. Sell, donate, recycle, or throw away shit that I do not use.
3. Use my planner and notebooks as tools not as something that I “have” to use.
4. Eat my veggies.  Seriously.  Salads in my future.
5. Take my desk at home back and make it a conducive writing space.
6. Cut WAY back on sugar and carb intake!
7. Lose weight – back to 175! and put on 5-7lbs of muscle
8. Go to the gym 3-4 time a week – minimum.
9. Box more at the gym and at home
10. Write more: Blog posts, REAL letters, Thank you notes, fiction, and non-fiction
11. Take more great pictures
12. Fly my drones more
13. Take at least a 45 minute lunch at least 4 days a week at work
14. Show up to yoga at least once a week
15. Take another pottery class
16. Finish my CJ-7 Jeep restoration
17. Look into getting back into the judo dojo
18. Sign up and compete in the Gambler 500 car race
19. Sign up for a letterpress class at SVC Downtown
20. Take another blacksmithing class at The Pratt
21. Read 1 book every 2 weeks!
22. Learn how to play the mandolin and banjo better!
23. Play my uke, banjo, and guitar with others
24. Build a skin-on-frame canoe for two
25. Road and mountain bike
26. Take the puppies to Lincoln Park for a walk at least once a week
27. Ride the living shit out of my Single -Speed
28. Bike to work at least 5 times this year (12 miles each way)
29. Volunteer more at the Center for Wooden Boats
30. Pay off all credit cards
31. Go sailing in Puget Sound
32. Turn some amazing and useful stuff on my lathe
33. Give lots of $$ to Heifer and MFS
34. Make at least 1 movie a week for YouTube and post: Adventure and craftsmanship
35. Monetize my YouTube account and increase my presence and standing in that community
36. Lessen my Twitter and social media activity…
37. See my kids and grandchildren more
38. Be involved in politics more: financally and with a time commitment
39. Work on my Genealogy database and organize all my info.
40. Finish the house remodel –  even if I have to pay a contractor to do it (…shudder…)
41. Finish the garage/shop/GROP build
42. Make.More.Stuff!!
43. Ride my snowboard and skateboard because I am not too old or too fat
44. Road trip in WA and on West Coast more
45. Have two hives of healthy, happy bees
46. Kayak lots!
47. See my friends more
48. Take my wife on vacation
49. Plant a spring garden and have a really bountiful fall harvest
50. Have an awesome Griswald-like Christmas light display!

I am printing this list out and pasting copies in my notebook, work planner, in the shop, at my desk at work, on the fridge, and in the basement above my warranty voiding workbench.