2007 expiration countdown: 364 days
performance appraisal: 2006, age 42 & 43, is recommended to pass with a Wendy rating of 
Things that caused outsized ego, multiple bounces, hand-clapping and chair-falling-off-ness:
Exploring the US: crossing the US in a 1976 red Chevrolet truck, visiting Spokane, Columbia gorge on the Lewis and Clarke trail, Charlotte, NC.
Family & friends: parental pleasure at the Tacoma glass Museum, Elton John live and the Seattle Symphony; Concert highlights that warranted blog posts included: Paul Simon, Jamie Callum, The Mountain Goats; Writing a ‘Will and Testament’; Being invited to comment on a draft of AF Harrold’s next Poetry book;
Technology: setting up, then maintaining this blog; Replacing cantakerous Tinkerbell with whizzy sleek pink Darling; buying and using a back-pocket camera;
Things that deepened wrinkle-lines, temporarily increased the protusion-portion of my bottom-lip or disrupted my sleeping and eating habits:
Family and friends: Not visiting the UK, even after my Uncle died;
Exploring the US: Errr…. …..I lost my passport. TWICE!; No sniff of greencard; unacceptably low local-occcurence of like-minded vocal feminists (female or male);
Technology: Paying LooSea’s ransome to the bodyshop; Tinkerbell’s premortal pernickety-ness.
If the following thingys are not on the 2007 highlights list there will be a public inquiry, a hearing, with tables, chairs, microphones, pews, and silly wigs or hats:
Family and friends: UK March Tour;
Exploring the US: Sequim farm on Olympic peninsula; Rhode Island May party;
Technology: blog refinement, less drivel, more focus with a dash of wit; Handbag skills mastered;
This message will not self-destruct in one year it will merely become more insignificant and highly forgettable.
January 1st, 2007
Have a great New Year.
A MIF reader from the UK.
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