Top 10 New Year's Resolutions for 1997

Motto for the new year:

"1997, it can only get better."

10. I'm going to watch my diet. I won't necessarily change it, but I'll watch it.
9. I'm going to find that song from that episode of Caroline in the City where Caroline finds Richard again after he disappeared and was missing for six months following Caroline's almost getting married to Dell. It's okay if you don't understand, it's my resolution.
8. I'm not going to misplace the baby.
7. Somehow I'm going to see Martin this year, honest.
6. I'm gonna write something this year, see if I don't.
5. Next year I'm going to write a resolution number 5 and put an end to all of this silliness. Well, not all of this silliness, but at least this number 5 stuff.
4. As I continue to explore the matters of the heart, I'd like to resolve to show a little more foresight, a little more restraint, and a little more wisdom, but that's not how I seem to play it, so I resolve to play it by ear, meaning that I'll probably take my usual path, plunge in head first into uncharted waters and, like as not, crack my head on the bottom so that I am forced to exit the rocky waters of love by dragging myself painfully on to the shore where I'll lie half drowned with a concussion and a bleeding skull, gasping until I'm almost fit to stand, and then I'll dive in again. Stupid as hell, but at least I'm consistent.
3. I need to be more appreciative of all of the really neat things around me like friends, clear night skies, laughing kids, and slinkies. What would the world be like without slinkies?
2. Speaking of slinkies, I want to try to send a slinky down an up escalator. I don't know if it's ever been tried, but it's an experiment that certainly needs doing.
Sqare root of. I'm going to liberate my desk, the finest piece of furniture ever made, from its storage place in Columbus before those damn furniture activists start getting on my case.
1. I'm going to get my bicycling legs back, so whoever has them better look out.
If you're curious, you can see how I'm doing so far. Or you can go on your merry way.


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