Once again it's time to think up of my 2001 Resolutions. As I've written previously, this year started out well but ended badly in terms of my 2000 Resolutions. So next year some things will be repeated but other things will be added. It's not as if I take these all that seriously, but it's nice to have some goals to keep in mind throughout the year.

First off, we have the financial resolutions. Like last year, my number one resolution is to pay off my credit card debt, and this time keep it paid off by the end of the year. To go along with that, my second resolution is to have a $1000 reserve in the bank by the end of 2001. This would be after the holiday shopping which can really put a damper on my savings. The other contributing factor is the amount that I spend on other people. Perhaps I'll be able to keep that under a thousand or two this year. The thing is, if someone needs financial help, I'm more than willing to give them the money, which is why I blow $1000 at a time on people.

Health-wise, I want to increase my "exercise" to 30 minutes 5 times a week. It's not heavy exercise, just walking around and very light calisthenics. Let's face it, walking to the movie theater and back is about 30 minutes so it shouldn't be that hard to do. The only thing would be finding the time and will to do it almost every day. I didn't want to make this every day because there are days when I have no time and I don't want these to-do's piling up. The other health resolution is to get a physical checkup. Who knows if I'll do this though.

The next two resolutions are more social. One is that I should do something cultural once a month. What I have in mind is going to a ballgame, or seeing a play, or going to a museum. Not quite touristy activities, more like what normal people would do for entertainment. I just need to see more of the Bay Area and take advantage of where I live. Another resolution is to contribute more to worthy causes. This is either give $120 a month, or volunteer once a month. Chances are it'll be money only, but there may be one or two things I volunteer for next year.

That's all the resolutions that I came up with. Only six for 2001, although almost all are year-long things. I have lots of other projects that I want to do and they're in a long list somewhere, but these are the things that I want to be reminded of every day and that I want to focus on. Everything else I have reasons to do, these are less important to my temperament, so they have to get special attention otherwise I won't do them.

Tomorrow I'm going to Sacramento again with Steph, to spend a day with the folks and Kooma, since she'll be leaving next week and we won't see her again for months. Sunday I'll watch my last movie of 2000 and then I'm planning on coming to work. Same for Monday, movie and work. I have to get basic internal transfer and blind transfer working, then transfer initiated by the original caller, then start working on conference calls. If that goes well I still have to test transfer and conference with outside lines, which I don't think will work with my current code.

There's a tradeoff. I can either try to map everything out, all cases and possibilities, which is a daunting task. Then code it all and test it. The problem being that doing it all as one big thing is hard to debug. Instead I'm analyzing a subset of cases, planning and coding to make those cases work, then debugging. The things that I learn from doing the subset can be applied to the next subset to make that development go faster. At least that's my theory.