New Year

I'm not particularly inclined to celebrate the New Year in any way for
what it is--I mean, up until now, it's always just been a good excuse
to party the night away with friends.  But, as someone recently told
me, it is certainly a good time to reconnect with people and give news. 
And that's something that makes more sense to me.

Since I'm gonna save the news and catch ups for a future entry, let's
put the light on the "reconnect" part.

Last summer, I wanted to focus more on gopher, which I did, thanks to
spare time during my nights shifts at work.  But as of September, and
the resumption of more or less normal daytime hours (even if erratic),
I stopped taking the time to come and take care of this lair.  And I
missed it.  A lot.

I know (and we all know) that new years good resolutions are more like
a to-do list for the first week of January (thanks to my mother for
that joke).  But still, I'd like to take one:

I want to make sure I come and write here more regularly, to talk about
everything and anything; maybe like a diary?  Simply because this
protocol and the community that revolves around it makes me feel good. 
Here, I find human warmth and stories--sometimes happy, sometimes
sad--that never fail to reach me.

In addition to that, this is one of the only digital places, if not the
only one, where I can allow myself to be myself, unabashedly.

> I still find
> that I can't be myself
> my real self on the web
> yet on Gopher I can share
> more about
> who I am...
>
> -- gef, Sunday, Nov. 22
> gopher://sdf.org/0/users/gef/phlog/sunday

I couldn't have said it better. That's what I feel, too.

While waiting to see if this promise to maintain this gopherspace will
be kept or not, please receive my best wishes.  May this year see the
realization of your most beautiful and precious desires.