New Year, New Site

Yesterday I decided to spiff up the site a bit in honor of the new year. Now that my Vanagon is a different color I figured the blog might as well change too. The only downside is that I learned that the blog no longer shows up correctly in Firefox or Safari browsers. I'm trying to get to the bottom of that now.

Since it is a new year I suppose I should announce a few Vanagon related resolutions for 2009. The first one is that I want to do a much better job of posting pictures along with my posts. I have appreciated the photos of other people's projects so much through the years that I feel like it is pretty selfish of me to not photograph my own projects. My second resolution is to spend more weekends using the Vanagon than I spend working on the Vanagon. These old cars are fun to work on and all but it is all too easy to get so wrapped up in smoothing out every little kink that I forget why I own the thing in the first place. I think 2009 needs to involve a lot more adventure and a lot fewer projects. Finally, I'd like for 2009 to be the year of finished tasks. It is far too easy to start projects and far too hard to complete them. While I intend to have fewer projects this year, I plan to do a much better job of bringing the ones I already have underway to completion. The birth of my first child is just a few weeks away. This year should introduce a dramatic reduction in free time so I've got to make the time that I do have really count.

Now that I've publicly announced goals I suppose I am going to have to actually accomplish them. Here's to achieving your goals, whatever they may be in 2009! Happy New Year!