merry christmas

Merry Christmas out there to anyone that is still listening. It's been a busy last couple of months. Some good things have happened - some bad things have happened. I will do my best right now to give you a brief synopsis of those events both good and bad.

This summer, as some of you may recall, I had some vandalism done to my vehicle. Well according to the court system, it didn't happen because the person accused of the crime was not mirandized properly got off scott free. So super. But what is done is done, the car is fixed and basically the same as it was before. It's been a rough go I suppose of the last few months. I had a lot on my mind and was trying to come to grips with a few things that I really can't go into much detail about in this forum but rest assured it was nothing life threatening or anything like that. Some events related to said issues have recently occured and provided me some perspective on my life. The simple fact is that while my life is really not going anywhere fast, it's not bad. I have great friends, a caring family and many other things to be thankful for. I have made some decision about taking action in my life because I realized that for the worse, I had been putting my life on hold for nearly two years now, make few decisive moves or doing few things that I enjoyed or thought to be important to who I am as a person. Getting my life back on track will not be overnight, nor will it be pleasant at every turn but what I find most interesting is that right now I feel more psychologically healthy than I have in literally, years. So I think that's a good thing, we will see if I was right or I am continuing to delude myself with introverted escapism about the future. Let's hope that I am right about the former.

I believe that few things happen accidently. There is a pattern to the chaos and that has helped me deal with some of the things that have come my way over the past two years. I don't know if I will get to update this thing again before the new year, but I will repeat my sincere hope, that this coming year will be better than the last, not necessarily because 2007 was bad but because we should all hope to make things better each year. Corny, sappy - sure but sometimes that makes things a little easier to deal with. Merry Christmas, friends and a Happy New Year.

Coming soon: Thoughts on the First World War and my hometown of Baltimore.