Happy new year to all.

I got to take a few days hours off last week, which was great. I took care of some overdue projects around the house which included moving my % complete on my desk refinishing project from about 25% to about 97%. I am waiting for the 2nd clear coat to dry so that I can run some sandpaper on it and apply the last coat. It’s only taken me 8 months to get this far. 30 hours over 8 months… not bad.

I also installed my bed lights in my truck, which was fun and fairly easy to do. I love to tinker with this kind of stuff. It’s good to get the hands dirty doing something every once in a while. The project was cheap and smooth. Here are some pics and here is a write up I did on the f150online.com forum I lurk on from time to time. These lights are a long time coming and I actually used them the night I finished them on a trip to the store with the wife.

The strangest thing just happened, I opened up a new tab to grab a link to the flickr gallery of the bed lights and mistakenly typed in http://www.flckr.com/ for the URL and got a page for the Real Player. Have things gotten that bad for Real that they are now using misspellings of flickr’s URL to market their crap. WOW. Just give up already. Anyway… on to the rest of this post.

I also did some meaningless surfing while I was off and came across something fairly cool and fun. Check this out. It asks you some questions and then tells you what video game you would be based on your responses. Here is what it told me:

I am a Defender-ship.  I am fiercely protective of my friends and loved ones, and unforgiving of any who would hurt them. Speed and foresight are my strengths, at the cost of a little clumsiness. I’m most comfortable with a few friends, but sometimes particularly enjoy spending time in larger groups. What Video Game Character Are You?

I’m not sure how accurate this assessment is, but it was a fun 3 minutes. 

I decided that there would be only one resolution this new year. No resolutions. They rarely are successful endeavors and lead to some degree of guilt along the way, so I am canning them. In their place will be a set of goals and objectives for myself this year. Some are professional and some are personal. I may decide to share them at some point, but not at the moment.

2006 was a good year. It was busy. It was hectic at times. It was successful in my eyes. It’s a new year with new goals and objectives. Time to get down to business and start making 2007 a GREAT year.

Not just another Google Maps Mashup… Goggles is a google map based flight simulator. Worth at least 5 mins of anyone’s time.