Happy New Year!

2012 is over and in the can.  Won't recap all that happened, that's just too damn boring.

What I will profess is a short list of thing that I want to happen.  Listen, I am not resolved to having these things happen but it sure would be pretty awesome if they did happen.

1.  Get my shop account paid off.  This thing has been ballooning hemorrhaging since 2008.  I finally got the brakes put on and got my spending habits under control.  I don't buy much a tube here and there and that's it.  Time to slay that beast!

2.  Pay off the Stumpjumper and my AllCity Mr. Pink frame.  My buddy wc, has graciously financed these two items that I am unable to provide for myself.  I'm paying him back little by little and with a little luck, I should own both of these before next year.

3.  Hopefully both of those things will get done so that I can:
a.  Get new brakes, tyres, and at least rims for the Stumpjumper.  I'm running mechanical Cannondale's right now, 10 year old tires, and rims that were taped by Specialized but really aren't tubeless and have seams that won't do the tubeless thing.
b.  Get the Mr. Pink built up.  My dream is to make this as close to 100% Shimano as possible.

4.  Finish the Gravel Conspiracy.  Not only will this be my first century but redemption because we all know how the last one went.  If you don't well read this:  Failure

5.  Ride two places on my mountain bike that I've never done and are out of state.  I'm not quite sure how I'm going to fulfill this one but hey I want to!

6.  Bring back kindness and gentleness in a world that stopped making sense awhile ago.  I can't think of any way to be more impactful on this world then to break the harshness I present to others.  This would also include being a hell of a lot nicer to my wife a hell of a lot more of the time.  I don't know how to heal this rotten apple we seem to be living in but I can damn sure be that grain of sand that start moving the mountain.

7.  Whenever possible and safe, get Dylan to school and back via bicycle.  I miss riding and well this is a great opportunity, albeit one that my wife thinks is just plain crazy.

8.  Spend more time on a bike with wc and #1.  I can't believe the absolute falling off of the mileage and the breaking of the fellowship (sorry Tolkein!).  Got to work to get that back together.

9.  Test a grass routes uprising of "Bandit" Cross in Mr. Dodds' back yard.  Getting kinda serious out there, we need less serious, and more fun.

I'm stopping at 9 because I don't feel like going to 10!  Have a great year everybody!