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Well, 7 and a bit hours to go until the end of the Gregorian calender year of 2007. Let’s have a brief review (as seems to be the rage at this time of the year on blogs):

2007 sucked.

Brutally.

And not just for me either. It’s been a year of death, divorce, dumpings, and a whole host of other things beginning with D. (For those of you looking through the archives I didn’t blog about most of the really crap stuff as, contrary to the evidence presented, I don’t blog about everything )

Still, on the bright side I have a nice new house, shiny new toys to put in said house, a whole host of new friends and, for the first time since the dawn of the internet, a website that I’ve actually kept maintained for longer than about a month which is always good. I’ve also managed to live within my income this year (well, OK, an income that’s been heavily supplemented from external sources, but hopefully I wont have to buy and furnish a new house in 2008) and I’m actually in a much better state financially that I was last year (no girlies going to be getting their hands on this house, I can tell you ).

I don’t do new years resolutions (the only one I ever kept was the one to not make any more which has been going strong for 12 years now ) but I do have some goals for next year:

• I’d like to give this company something like £4,000 to custom build me a proper left handed, folded blade katana. This is very dependent on if I get a bonus or not this year (unlikely) or me being able to not spend enough during the year to save the money (even less likely) but it’s good to have goals.
• I’d like to not end up in the back of an ambulance or in A&E this year. This one should be easier since I now keep a stock of the drugs that A&E give me on my person at all times so I can just bypass the NHS bit and go straight to the private health care bit. Would be nice not to need that either.
• I’d like to start doing photography again. I’ve not really done any in the past 6 months. Hopefully in the spring I should have a bike so I can take my camera out into the countryside round here and take some spring time shots.
• I’d like to finish my house (OK, OK, flat - you guys are so picky ) off. Not much left to do, just need to get a new desk for the spare room, custom made thing for the en-suit (which really requires me to get the designs to bathgirl since she knows people who can make it for me), new lights (which knowing me are going to be expensive), new hob (my one sucks almost as much as this year has - I’ll get that and the lights fitted at the same time by an electrician), kitchen tiled (friend has said he’ll help out there) and the flat could do with a proper coat of paint.

Nothing overly ambitious, I know, but I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I do fairly regular exercise, I eat pretty well and any other ‘big’ changes are just not going to happen at this stage in my life. Besides, setting lofty goals that I can’t hit is just a bit pointless