{"id":963,"date":"2009-01-01T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2009-01-12T02:56:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T02:56:51","slug":"a-horse-for-one-bin-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"A horse for one bin (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bugger off Scott Mills and take your catchy soundbites that insinuate their way in to my consciousness with you. By the way, have you noticed that some enterprising person has registered it as a domain name?<\/a> Anyway…<\/em><\/p>\n

HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hi. How are you? How’s the wife? Kids? Husband? Boyfriend? Girlfriend? Hamster?<\/p>\n

Our final Christmas present has now been opened and assembled. No, we don’t have massive self-control (quite the reverse!), but taking the still-boxed iPod docking station to Marrakech would have been a little… bonkers. Even for us.<\/p>\n

What are you up to? Making resolutions? Breaking them? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We are listening to Chris Moyles whilst internetting like a couple of people who have been in a third world country for a week.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to finalise the playlist for this weekend’s podcast but it’s difficult, there is so much top quality music and so little time to play it all.<\/p>\n

So New Year’s resolutions.<\/p>\n

I don’t really like the concept although I do love the notion that we attempt a little self-improvement each year. I just don’t like the shopping-list approach because it implies – in my head at least – an equal and opposite list of negative qualities<\/em>, and I think we’re all far too good to be weighing ourselves down with even an unvoiced list of our negative qualities; it’s taking self-debasement just one step too far.<\/p>\n

Although I do have some aspirations for 2009, they’re motivational rather than stick or carrot.<\/p>\n

In 2009 I want to:<\/p>\n