Back in 2004 I uploaded a list of New Year's Resolutions here, more as an attempt at humour than anything else. Well, it's nearly 5 years on and I didn't manage to achieve any of those, but like I care. Regrets are for the dead!
Still, the relevance is that while I was browsing around the site today to look at anything I could update while I was enthusiastic and motivated enough to do so, I stumbled across that old list and, what with my newfound urge to instigate change and revitalise my otherwise tedious 9-to-5 existence (see Journal entry for September 10th, 2008) I feel the need to make a more serious list and start fixing everything. I guess mostly it's just an attempt to help myself focus and stay motivated and generally get my life in order, so maybe it'll be no interest to anyone else, but hey, I'm not forcing you to read it, so no complaining! FYI, it's in no particular order. Well, except that it's the order I thunk them up. It's not like I stuck them all into a randomiser so that they would truly be in 'no particular order'... I'm not that pedantic... Well OK, I am, but I let myself off this once because if I don't sleep soon I'll have less time to dream about eating steak and taking over the world.

1: Finish the already half-completed website redesign I started in 2005 - N4: Intravenous has actually been live since January 2003. Talk about old!
2: Actually update the site at least once a month - I know, that'd be a bloody miracle, right?
3: Format my PC and get that dual-boot Linux/XP system I've been planning for over a year into place
4: Start writing again - I've written one short piece in the last two years and the book I've been trying to write has been stuck at three chapters for longer
5: Take some nice pictures - I've managed to do this on and off this year, but not as much as I'd like
6: Re-learn the bass guitar - it's shameful how little sunlight my instrument's seen lately! And then there's my guitar too *chortle*
7: Buy a bike - as if environmental and cost-of-petrol concerns weren't enough, a good bit of exercise should make it easier to be enthusiastic and motivated... Or something like that
8: Read more books - although I have recently managed to plow through a new book in less than 5 hours, it still sucks that all this working-all-day has knocked reading way down the list of things I need to fill my free time with
9: Upgrade my PC - the current one's served a decent sentence, and I believe it's clocked in more than half a decade since I last put together a completely new system, and it's only had one graphics upgrade near the start of its life and a couple of new 1TB hard drives last year. Only now that no modern game will run on it without slowdown or glitchiness have I decided it is time to save up some pennies for a few months and go all in on a shiny top-of-the-line machine and see how many years I can keep flogging that!
10: Learn programming - someday I hope to do this for a living, for now it's a satisfying hobby and good practise for going to uni next year
11: Figure out more stuff to go on list - because you can never really get to the end of your to-do list when it comes to enjoying life