2006 Year in Review

This past year was a good one. A great one actually. I got married, I bought a house, I had a beautiful new baby boy, and my beautiful baby girl is getting smarter by the day. For some reason, however, it never seemed like I got around to being happy.

Why not? I'm just not really a happy person. It seems like I've spent my entire life just trudging through it step-by-step, always looking forward to a future happiness that I expected to one day achieve. It sounds stupid, but I really have always thought that. It's like my book collection--I buy a ton of books. Some to read right away, some just to have, and most with the thought that I will read them at some point in the future. It doesn't matter that I have hundreds of books that I haven't read yet, or that I don't really read as much as I used to, I still fully expect to one day sit down and finish each and every book that I own (as well as those I've yet to buy).

So, rather than come up with the normal new year's resolutions, I'm going to aim big. I'm going to do what I can to enjoy life now, to count my blessings and try to be as happy as possible. I predict this will last all of 2 hours in the new year, but a guy can dream, can't he?

Carmudgeonly, Me?

I'm a people person. In that I dislike people in general. It's nothing new, I've been working on it for well over 10 years now. I'm giving myself the benefit of the doubt that when i was in my late teens-early twenties I wasn't as bitter as I am now. It's been so long now that the years all roll into one.

Oh sure, there are people that I like just fine, some that I even enjoy being around. And while having a wife and two relatively new children has helped me to see some of the good that life has to offer, I still see humanity in general as a bunch of fucktards in need of a good dressing-down.

So with that said, welcome to my new space on the internet,

Mark.