My 3 year goals as a “look back” document written in the future. This idea was provided by Diana Scheidman and her email newsletter/website standup8times.com.

January 2013

I’ve finished my painting(s) for Sophia. “I didn’t sell my art by the square foot!”, and I found a way to paint at home without poisoning everyone or the cats (no oils and nasty thinning agents and paints) and no God awful acrylics. Poster paints/watercolor and tempera paints were all good choices, oil or chalk pastel could also be cleaner and/or less toxic to try next, beautiful mediums without the toxicity.

I’ve saved up enough money to buy Sophia one of those new Apple book readers/iSlate devices, and filled it up with a fewbooks from her Amazon wishlist already, She loves it as much as I do, (I’ve got to get one myself).

Ian is enjoying his laptop, it’s powerful enough for him to play games, and he’s become disciplined enough now to know when to play and when to work on it. The drawing tablet for art work is one of his favorite tools, he’s done some very cool work with it.
Justin is touch-typing very well too, he’s getting a lot of mileage out of his laptop too.

BlueBerry, our new British Blue Tabby is fitting in well with Jonesy and Stu, we think he makes a swell addition to the family.
I asked Sophia if she had to do it all over again, would she still marry me? is that the right question to ask?
I’ve already done a marathon, and thinking of doing this every year now, and getting my time better each year…

I’ve established my blog, or should I say blogs, trying to figure out which was going to be my “personal” blog, and which was going to be my “public” blog was not an easy decision, I’m glad I bought that additional domain so that it was easier to separate the two different parts of me, we’ll see if that was the best way to do it or not in the next few months as our traffic has increased substantially on both.

Every couple of months the crews at RFX, Sirius and all the old PIC crew have been able to meet up for a get-togethjer or two so I’ve staying much more in touch than in previous years.

I have a self published comic book, it doesn’t have to do well, but it’s just an accomplishment to get it finally finished

I’m living with a lot less regret than I did 3 years ago (coulda, woulda, shoulda)

I have succeeded in overcoming my addiction to THE BEST CANDY IN THE WORLD, NUTRAGEOUS!!!!

The basement toilet is fixed, and we have ceiling tiles and flooring in the “livable spaces” in the basement