On my mind today is New Years Resolutions. I am taking my cue from my friend Katie, a.k.a. The Wifest who recently wrote about on how well she was doing keeping her resolutions. I like the idea of putting resolutions out there to the masses, if for no other reason, they will remind you if you are getting off track. I read somewhere that diets tend to work better if you tell everyone you are on them. Seems reasonable to me.

People don't email me. My resolution is simple, get more people to email me.

I have learned this last week that I alone am to blame for this. I really want to blame my friends for being lazy, but come find out that when I actually do write them as I did this week, they write me right back with great and interesting replies. It is me who is lazy. It is me who avoids the email.

I have developed a negative Pavlovian reaction to the sound of my email application beeping at me. I picked this up at my old job, where email only means more work and responsibility. And when that is the case, loquaciousness and creativity are the first things to go. I recon that I have spent the last two or so years simply writing short, if not terse, bare bones responses to only the emails of importance. It works for work, but when you are on the other side of the world with the internet as your main means of communication to friends and family, it is a good thing to put some more time into the emailing.

So if you are reading this and you want an email from me, just tell me so, and I will write you back. I will do my best to respond to any non-spam that reaches my inbox.