Showing posts with label Happy New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy New Year. Show all posts

Monday, January 05, 2009

New Year


For those of you who didn't already know, we are now in a 'new' year. This doesn't actually mean anything (it's like being a year older --- you're not really more than a day older than you were before your birthday).

However, it is nice to be able to have a mark on a timeline that you can use to reposition yourself or evaluate your life's trajectory. We often refer to this recalibration as 'New Years Resolutions'. Things that we resolve to accomplish in the new year.

Usually these resolutions involve some health/fitness concern or are vague (and thus achievable) like 'swearing less in public places when kids are present'.

So here's this years resolution (pertaining to blgging) from me:

"I [Ben] hereby resolve
to write about stuff
other than movies."


Okay, so that's not really a big deal (I can still comment on Peter's posts), but there is so much that I am interested in other than movies that I thought it would be a good discipline to write about those things and not Hollywood. Of course, I will end up making references to movies or actors, but only as they pertain to whatever I am writing about.

So how about you all, any good resolutions this year?

Friday, December 26, 2008

This from the comments:

Here's a comment left by David Crumm (2 m's) under the previous post. Thanks David and we wish you and your's a Merry Christmas too:

"Wow! What a discovery!
I am David Crumm (2-ms) and my late brother (lost to cancer unfortunately) was Dr. Stephen Crumm. My other brother is John Crumm -- and my son, now studying international relations -- is Benjamin Crumm. My brother John got his masters of planning at University of Maryland and my daughter Megan Crumm is studying at a seminary in Washington D.C. -- so although we're based in Michigan we have lots of ties to D.C. and Maryland...

Merry Christmas from your (apparently) long-lost Crumm clan relatives. (My Dad the genealogist says the 1-m Crums are related to us -- but one particular Crum(m) after the Civil War claimed some land in Michigan and headed West from the eastern branch.)

Glad to discover you cousins!

...

Happy New Year!
-- David Crumm"