fine whine

There's this tradition going around, of making lists of things that people want to change at the beginnings of new years. I usually throw a couple out here or there to maintain polite conversation, and these are probably no better.

• I want to eliminate the "have"s and "got"s out of my conversations when I mean things like ownership and necessity. This means no more "gotta", too.
• I want to maintain a list of things that I'd like to receive, instead of just thinking and acting like I already own everything that I could possibly want.
• I want to burn over one hundred fifty thousand calories in activities above and beyond my ordinary sitting and walking around.
• I want to finish constructing my shelves, and make at least a design for some sort of desk-based solution for my computer room. I want to begin construction on a model railroad in my basement.
• I want to keep better track of the books I read and the movies I watch. I keep score on the movies but not the books, and darn it, I'd like to know. I also would like to make a better stab at qualitative lists of the best and worst ten or so.

I'm tempted to come up with some CGI tracking for some of these, and could probably call that a resolution or goal or whatever too, except that it takes me an average of three years, start to finish, for any CGI application more complicated than rock-paper-scissors. I'm trying to stick to listing ones that I might actually be able to keep (you may have noticed also the conspicuous lack of "I want to update this in a more timely fashion").

But, whatever. They're just made up goals anyway.