Tinotopia

I think that new year’s resolutions are a good thing. January 1 is just an arbitrary day, but then the determination to change a habit is itself pretty arbitrary.

You could pick any day — your birthday is a good choice, probably better than January 1 when you think about it — but in practice January 1 always seems to be less arbitrary than it might initially appear, logically. In January, the days are lengthening, snow on the ground makes everything brighter, and the disassembly and packing-away of Christmas decorations gives a general boost to the whole out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-ism.

I am still working on Having Fewer Crap Experiences and Dressing Better, resolutions from previous years, but have made some progress in each case.

This year’s resolution is simply to make more of the Tinotopia blog, specifically to the point of having something up here every day. I say this with the full knowledge that I’m not going to do it; there will undoubtedly be some days when I’m too busy, or disinterested, to post even a picture. With things like this, though, it’s good to have a clear definition of success, and in this case I’m saying that success will be 365 entries between now and December 31. If I actually achieve 80% of that, I’ll be happy.

I plan to do this, in part, by resurrecting some of the 91 drafts that WordPress tells me I already have on the hook; by posting short things about meals I’ve eaten and places I’ve visited without getting in to 5000 words about what’s minutely wrong with the customer service; by posting links to news articles with a single bitchy sentence about what’s obviously idiotic there; and so on. 5000-word screeds are better, but they get bogged down and abandoned at least as often as they get posted.