Resolutions Made Easy

I once saw a fellow who said that he back dated his New Year’s resolutions. It may sound funny, but it has always helped me to start the New Year in a positive way by concentrating on my accomplishments.

So… here goes my New Year’s resolutions for 2017.
- Support my lovely wife Angelle through her knee surgery.
- Help Angelle support our Mom through her knee surgery.
- Learn about and start to write game programs.
- Buy a ton of computer stuff to write game programs including Apple and iPhone so that my friends and family can play my games.
- Write a game for Canada’s 150th birthday… Canada 150 Trivia Quiz.
- Publish my game on the web, Android, and iPhone.
- Have my 150th game download on Canada’s birthday July 1.
- Downsize our television.
- Finish a jig saw puzzle with four pieces missing.
- Renovate our home and have it done by professionals.
- Buy groceries with Bitcoin.
- See my wife, Angelle’s, artwork hanging in a Victoria art gallery.
- Meet Tim’s girlfriend Kristen. She is a keeper. You are a lucky man Tim.
- Create some artwork. Thanks, 4Cats studio.
- See my friend Neil’s work in various galleries.
- Have dinner with the two feature artists after an art show. Thanks, Neil and Jaroen.
- Get new recliner rocker chairs and sit in them pretty much all year.
- Watch and photograph the solar eclipse.
- Take photos of Heritage buildings for Wikipedia in Nanaimo, Qualicum Beach, and Ladysmith.
- Watch the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the playoffs.
- Host visitors that we had not seen in a while and some that we had.
- Almost see P!nk in concert.
- Have a positive attitude.
- Start a blog.

What are your resolutions / accomplishments?

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Space Game

In the late seventies (yes, the 1970s) I was enrolled in an Electronics Engineering Technology program. There was some minor programming involved. I had to write my first program on ticker tape but I loved it right away. I could write some code and then watch the machines do what I asked them to do. It was just awesome.
The school had some minor games on the central computer. One of them was a space game. No one had personal computers at the time so this was brand new to me. Just picture yourself at 23 years old being able to play your first computer game. It was mesmerizing.
We did not have terminals, just teletype machines, so each move we made in the game had to be printed out. It took a lot of paper. And now we see the problem. The school shut down the computer games because of all the paper use. It was a sad, dark time indeed.
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Tree Tinkler

In our city on Vancouver Island we still have a local newspaper. One of the regular items in the newspaper is the "Beefs and Bouquets". One of my beefs won the number 9 spot in the top 10 Beefs of the Year. I have copied it in its entirety below.

BEEF To the woman who went into the trees in our yard to tinkle. She was undoing her pants as she was running from her car to the trees so it was pretty obvious what she was up to. Does she realize she is next to a 24-storey building with a clear view of her makeshift toilet? At least I hope she was only tinkling.

Here is a link to the Newspaper’s top ten Beefs of the Year.

Saving Made Easy -- No Nonsense Version

Saving Made Easy (No Nonsense Version)

Have someone else take care of saving money for you.

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Some companies have a stock purchase plan.It usually works the same as the savings plan above but your company will buy shares for you instead of putting the money in a savings plan. If you don’t like the idea of being in the stock market just take the m…

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