Hallway in Sapporo, Japan
This marks the tenth year I've been writing on this blog. Or should I say the start of the tenth year. I started to write on this blog in December 2013. I'd just come back from my first trip overseas to Chitose Japan in support of Yama Sakura 2013. And so I started, on 23 December, to start writing. I wrote a lot about the trip, and sprinkled in some articles such as my installation of Ubuntu 13.10 on my now ancient Samsung notebook, replacing a malware corrupted Windows. I would go on from there to write irregularly on many subjects, the majority about technology and dogs and cats, as well as sprinkle in my opinions about life in general.
There's one other major milestone I face in 2023. I turn 70 this year. I never thought I'd live this long (really). Not because I'm maudlin or have a deeply depressive outlook on life, but that i'd see myself as a seventy-something human being. When I was in early high school I used to watch Walter Cronkite's The 21st Century, and marvel that I'd be a half century old when I finally reached 2001. Here I am over twenty years later, and I'm still marveling at the passage of time, except from the other side of that tunnel. As for how things turned out in the real 21st century, nothing in that show came to pass.
If nothing else I now feel a sense of urgency to do even more in this, the start of my fourth year of retirement. I've gotten a lot done from all the jobs I put off over the decades I worked, but time hasn't stood still and new tasks have presented themselves. I need to do more, more efficiently, and more quickly.
The single most important new year's resolution is to cut loose from the past. Quit dwelling on it, and build for the future. There's so much to do, and I have no idea how many more years (or days) I still have on this earth. So while it's interesting to look back, now more than ever I need to look, and move, forward.
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