Some twelve hours ago, we rang in the New Year. We’re some thirty miles or so outside of Nashville, enjoying time with friends (as we’ve done for Eves and Days previous).

As tradition dictates, the central event of the holiday was the annual cooking of my company-issued turkey. 14 pounds this time. There’s a whole other post to be had about the cooking of said bird, photos included, but for now, all you need to know is that nobody lost a limb or an eyebrow.

Resolutions? I has them, actually. For one, I’m going to be a better blogger. By better, I mean that I’m going to blog more often, providing more original content than I did last year. For instance, my political posting fell by the wayside severely in 2007. I owe you guys another ten or eleven or nineteen entries for my Presidential Fantasy Cabinet. But given that we’re going into an election year, I’m confident that politico-blogger-fodder will be rampant and freely available. I’m sure that the founders of Johns Creek have be up to some kind of new, fresh idiocy, so maybe we’ll even do another pair of Politics Is Local podcasts.

And yes, I’ll do the third and last entry in that pack of Doctor Who posts. Really.

Basically, if I’m going to have this powerful publishing platform, I ought to use it, use it often and use it to its full extent. And to force my hand, I’m shutting down the automatic posting from Del.icio.us. I’m not convinced that my occasional links of awesome are really something that all of you want to see. And I’m feeling about those automatic posts the way I feel often about our DVR’d television shows. We end up not watching them because, hey, the DVR has already “watched” the show for us, so why bother?

Other resolutions not having to do with blogging? The usual. I need to get back into better shape. There’s a gym at work, so I ought to do more than pass by and look in like some kind of aquarium visitor. And maybe I need to buy a bicycle.

So there you have it. Better posts. Better shape. Better, all around.

What about you?