It looks like I will be doing some C# coding for work this month. That stuff is more interesting than the database stuff I do, and far more rewarding than the VBA stuff I have to do sometimes. I wish I could use Swift instead, though.

I like TweetBot a lot more than I like Twitter.

It must be January 2, because I just created a literal “Laundry List” in Reminders.

It’s back to work for me today, and I a digging out of my email inbox. Sometime later I will add a new “2018” folder to my “file system for life”, the filing system I wrote about in Plaintext Productivity several years ago. It feels good, each year, to marvel at how many project folders I created last year, leave them behind, and to prepare a clean space for new work.

The beginning of the year is a time for setting goals. I have set some goals, and may post them here later. This list, however, represents my anti-goals—my to-don’t list, if you will.

1. Lamenting failures rather than celebrating successes
2. Being more interested in process than product
3. Talking myself out of things
4. Planning a project, rather than starting it
5. Drafting blog posts, but never finishing them
6. Letting important things pile up
7. Not letting unimportant things go

These are my bad habits and bugbears, the blocks in my mind that frustrate me and prevent me from achieving my full potential.

These are the vampires that I have let in. They are no longer welcome.

I cooked a New Years Day feast for my family today. I ate so much I feel food drunk right now. That’s probably not the wisest way to kick off a healthy new year.

Reading people’s New Years Day posts has been both electrifying and chilling. 2017 was a tough year for everyone’s mental health. It seems that a lot of people plan to limit Twitter and Facebook and the ridiculous daily news cycle this year. Me too.