Jared AxelrodWriter of Adventure

We’ve got a new president now, and he’s off to a promising start. I am attempting to temper my enthusiasm with skepticism, but it’s hard. I want to believe that this is a new dawn, that things will be different and we’ll all get a chance to start over.

That ’s the promise of every January, history-making president or not.

A few days ago, Mur Lafferty spoke on the power of daring to be stupid. That stuck with me. I wanted to do that.  I wanted to follow through on every stupid idea that popped in my head. Problem is,  I have quite honestly too many stupid ideas to realistically follow through with all of them.  Don’t believe me?  Here’s a list:

And I’ve labored on it since taking that photo, too.  I’ll have to add another sheet by February, just watch.

These are mostly projects I’ve started and never finished.  Some are last year’s.  Some the year before. One goes as far back as 2002. And I put them on this list because I want to finish them. I’m tired of them lurking around in the back of my head, waiting to be completed.  I don’t know how many will get done before the end of the year, but now with this list, I’ll be able to see which ones have and which ones haven’t.

The Dream is that by 2010, I start with a clean slate.  I’m not sure if that feasible, but there’s no reason not to try.

After all, I have a whole year, don’t I?  That’s the promise of 2009.