In 2009, probably early in 2009, I will almost certainly quit the little part time job I've had for the last 14 months, because it's starting to irritate me. I gratefully retired in 2005 with a nice pension, took about two years off and finally completed all the house and yard renovations I'd had on my to do list for a decade, and picked up a few old hobbies from my youth--model building, photography, guitar, carpentry--and I took the part time job so I could pay for some of that without dipping into the household accounts. It's a handyman job with a local office supply company that's also involved in commercial property management, but the boss has now discovered how much I really know about such work and has set me to doing renovation tasks worth about five times the hourly rate he's paying me, and I'm getting heat from some fools who think I've done a job badly because they think I'm done with it before I've finished it and cleaned things up. I don't need the job, I don't want that aggravation, and I won't take it, so I'll finish the projects currently underway--I always finish what I start--then turn in my keys.
I will make no New Year's Resolutions. I made one many years ago, to make no more New Year's Resolutions, and I've stuck by it. My experience is that New Year's Resolutions don't work, the turn of the calendar isn't by itself a good enough reason to do anything. So I expect that in 2009 I will do the same things I did in 2008, and 2007, and 2006, ... I will do the things that make me happy, the things that make my loved ones happy, the things that seem important and useful and interesting to me.
