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I'm thinking I'm going to something slightly different. I'm going to do resolutions this year on a month by month basis, and report on my progress before issuing the next set of resolutions. Obviously, some of these will be repeating month to month, but I want to be a little more granular - and keep more records of my progress.

So, here are January resolutions:

• Follow the 4-hour body diet plan for the month.  This diet is in large part identical to the paleo diet that I followed from July through Thanksgiving.  I lost just shy of 40 pounds.  I want to lose another 20 pounds.  The main difference with the new plan is that it actually encourages cheating, one day a week.  I'll throw a post up later with some more information on the diet, and other stuff from the book.
• Post on Perfidy at least once a day.  And I don't mean average at least one post a day, I mean post at least once every day.  Hopefully more, and get this habit locked in.
• Start a new, time-consuming hobby.  I've always teased my wife that I need a hobby that sucks time as much as her band, just to even things out.  I've decided to start studying physics.  I was a physics major, once, and I'd like to sharpen my math and science skills.  The early part will be just catch up - elementary physics refresher courses from a variety of sources, and math as well.  There'll be a post forthcoming on this, too.
• Read one thinky book a week.  SF doesn't count.  For January, I will read the 10,000 Year Explosion, The Mystery of Capital, The Long Summer (How Climate Changed Civilization) by Brian Fagan, and Keegan's First World War.  (Having unpacked my books for the first time in four years, I've found lots of books that I want to read that I never got around to.)
• Read Volume I of the Harvard Great Books.  This one will be easy, I'm already half done.  There's fifty volumes, so that's over four years at that pace.  But, I hope to increase the pace.
• Catalog my books, and start getting digital copies of them.
• Get passports for the family.
• Get a budget in place, and automate as much as my bill paying and finances as I can manage, to reduce craziness.  The last few years have been difficult, what with layoffs, uncertainty, etc.  But now that I've relocated, cut my housing expenses in half, and have a small measure of job security, it's time to get off the paycheck to paycheck life I was kinda forced into by the necessity of juggling payments and such.
• Become a better person and take over the world.

And I think that's enough for one month.