Out with the old
Dec. 31st, 2007 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearSo here I am, at the end of '07. It hasnt been such a bad year for me, measured against the past few. While I did not make resolutions in the traditional sense, I did make some efforts to better my life, and hopefully Jeff's as well.
I wanted to take time for some real vacations and travel. To that end we got a new travel trailer and made a few trips with it, the biggest being a week in P-Town. Having lots of luck aside from burning out the transmission in the old truck, I plunked down some serious coin on a new truck to make our trips much more enjoyable. Next year will hopefully find us on the road going places we've been wanting to for a long time.
I had hoped to make some progress bettering myself physically and mentally, given the injuries and incredible losses I had been dealt with since the last year. While I have made incremental progress there, I've a way to go still. '07 was not without some dark clouds either. I lost some friends, but I think I made some new ones. I want to continue with that last point.
Today I spent the day being my usual self, adding a second alternator to the new truck (reasons for this will possibly be in a future post that will only be of interest to gearheads), and dropping a nicely built LS6 454 into a pretty schweet '70 El Camino owned by a friend of a friend. I still smell of oil and solvents. I guess it's a comfortable feeling for me to bid farewell to this year with me being me. It's what I do best.
Happy New Year to all of you on Livejournal that have followed my life through these pages. You've made a huge, positive impact on my well-being. I only can hope that it continues.
Cheers!
I wanted to take time for some real vacations and travel. To that end we got a new travel trailer and made a few trips with it, the biggest being a week in P-Town. Having lots of luck aside from burning out the transmission in the old truck, I plunked down some serious coin on a new truck to make our trips much more enjoyable. Next year will hopefully find us on the road going places we've been wanting to for a long time.
I had hoped to make some progress bettering myself physically and mentally, given the injuries and incredible losses I had been dealt with since the last year. While I have made incremental progress there, I've a way to go still. '07 was not without some dark clouds either. I lost some friends, but I think I made some new ones. I want to continue with that last point.
Today I spent the day being my usual self, adding a second alternator to the new truck (reasons for this will possibly be in a future post that will only be of interest to gearheads), and dropping a nicely built LS6 454 into a pretty schweet '70 El Camino owned by a friend of a friend. I still smell of oil and solvents. I guess it's a comfortable feeling for me to bid farewell to this year with me being me. It's what I do best.
Happy New Year to all of you on Livejournal that have followed my life through these pages. You've made a huge, positive impact on my well-being. I only can hope that it continues.
Cheers!
