happy and new

a quick note to everyone wishing them a very happy new year. what a great moment in time. you can either reflect happily on the past year or gladly wave goodbye to it. and before you lies a clean slate full of possibility. you can either build on the past year or build in spite of it.

i do not make new year's resolutions. but i am glad to be clean and sober.

spent the evening with some of my wife's family. this included an italian feast of seafood—linguine and clams, calamari and shrimp. i am blessed with inlaws that cook some of the best homemade italian food you will ever eat. we got home early to put daughter to bed and quietly hung out together until the ball dropped.

never was a fan of champagne, but still bought some of the booze-free variety. it gave me an excuse to pull out our champagne flutes. the glassware and associated props are something i still sometimes miss about drinking.

we had a few drinks of it and i probably just tossed about half of it down the sink. too sweet.

after wife went to bed, i stole out to the garage for a smoke. and now you find me here.

life is good.