Resolutions?

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It's been an exhausting day for a number of reasons. Some of them tied to the dayjob search, others to the comics work, still others to the Damnable Basement Project now also in progress.

Someday - decades from now if at all - I might explain those reasons in full. Or I may just have a lawyer withhold them for publication after my own death. I haven't made up my mind on that one yet. But I'm not going to talk about that right now. I am going to discuss some kind of goal-setting for the year ahead.

I don't really know how many of these I'm going to be able to manage this year, but...



Art Goals

• Get Local Hero # 2 thru 4 done and out the door this year.
  
• Get more paying illustration work in general, and if possible make it happen in comic books.
  
• Make some concrete progress on finishing my Great Canadian Space Opera novel and getting publication rights sold. Am I really going to leave the field to matociquala, Matt Watts' Canadia: 2056 and rob_sawyer_blog, as good as all of that stuff in print and on the radio (in Matt's case) is? That sub-genre needs more material from more people! And one of those people should be me! _*ahem*

Health Goals

• More exercise. Whether that's from house-cleaning and its sequelae, perambulating around the city, some limited weight-lifting, or something else to be thought of by anyone else...
  
• Lose some more weight. I don't buy into the body-mass index theory completely right now, but my doctor does have a good idea about some limited degree of weight-loss being a good thing. (Linked with the above health agenda point, of course.)
  
• Calm and focus.
  

Mind-Stretching Goals

• Explore more of this city I live in. It's something I manage to achieve, by accident and design, every year. Doesn't mean it shouldn't stay on the list, though. I like this town, and I want to see more of it. (Doesn't mean that it has to keep expanding its urban acreage for me to do so, though. More on that point another time.)
  
• Finish one of my font-design projects and start a new one from scratch. Possibly, this also belongs in the Art Goals section, but never mind that.
  
• Learn one additional software skills set. In full, if possible.
  
• Keep the friends I've got.

And there's the list of goals to start the year with. To be amended at need or whim, of course.