Comments on: 12 x 365 Resolution

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:08:33 +0000

Same place. It’s really convenient. Pull up a chair near the shopping carts, stick an umbrella in a bottle of 2-buck chuck, and you’d swear you were in the islands.

By: Rain

Rain — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:00:16 +0000

A friend once saw a bunny eating pizza on the bar at Spec’s. And no, she wasn’t on any major hallucinogens.

Speaking of hallucinogens, Chuck, if you go to Trader Joe’s for your tiki drinking, I wonder where you go to get your reasonably priced frozen dinners and individually-packed vegetables?

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:49:36 +0000

Specs is pretty neat — it’s an old bar that’s been there forever, and looks like a more appropriately lit, but less well-furnished, Adventurer’s Club. Kinda. If you’ve been drinking. In addition to beer & liquor, they serve cheese & saltines, to which I say, yesthankyou. It gets a more diverse crowd of folks than I’ve seen anywhere else in the city — a good number of crazy old coots, which I take as a good sign. We’ve only been there the one time, so we’d like to try it again and see if we still like it.

For tiki adventures, aside from the aforementioned Forbidden Island on Wednesdays (you should definitely come join us for that sometime, btw — one of Hanford’s friends bus/barts out from the city about every other week), we do make it into the city now & then. We’re supposed to meet up with some folks at the Tonga Room (6pm) & Trader Vic’s (8pm) next Tuesday, come join us!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:12:15 +0000

I definitely will, Humu! I don’t know who/what Specs is, but that’s not much of a surprise since I haven’t explored much of the city at all.

I’d love to tag along with you guys, especially if it’s a tiki-related adventure. I’ve been to Trader Joe’s once, and I’m pretty sure I was in the Tonga Room one time. Other than that, it’s all a mystery to me.

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:01:03 +0000

I can’t do much to help you with any of your resolutions, but maybe the one that didn’t actually make your list: socialize more. With both of us working from home, we’ve gotten awfully hermitish ourselves. We’v done a lot of talking about busting out of it a bit, and not a lot of actual doing. We get out to Forbidden Island every Wednesday, but nobody like a one-note song. Well, except I’m kind of partial to the One Note Samba. So, maybe nobody likes to be stuck with only one one-note song. Because I’d get bored of the One Note Samba eventually. Which I guess is the point. What was I talking about? See, this is what happens to hermits. It’s not pretty.

We especially want to do more exploring up in the city — a friend introduced us to Specs a week or so ago, which we liked quite a bit. We need more of that sort of thing. Give us a ping if you want to grab dinner or drinks or something.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:46:52 +0000

Well, the “new month resolution” is the whole key, at least in theory. For me, anyway, a month is long enough to see if a lifestyle change is going to “take.” Especially if I can keep the mindset that it doesn’t HAVE to be for the rest of my life, just this one month. When it works, by the end of the month I’m done with the bad habit or have gotten used to the good one. The only thing that hasn’t been the case for is smoking, which I quit for three months one time but then started right back.

Ideally, I can throw in a new experiment each month and see if it works. And then by the end of the year, I can be sitting in my apartment starving, writing a novel in Japanese about how much I want a cigarette.

By: Larry Hosken

Larry Hosken — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:10:17 +0000

These seem like too many resolutions to tackle in one year. If you knocked off three of them, that would be more than most folks accomplish, but you’ll still feel bad because you’ll only be batting 30%. Well, maybe. Maybe this “New Month” resolution is the answer. If you lose weight two months in a row, can you count it twice? What if you quit smoking two months in a row? (Or better yet, quit one month, and then next month remain enquittified.) Do you get to count that twice?

Or maybe you could play “resolution survivor”. Each month in which you accomplish one resolution, you’re allowed to discard one of the others. If you learn to play the banjo, I think you’re allowed to declare “Upon close consideration, I have discovered that Nanowrimo is a crime against humanity. As such, it has been disqualified from my list of resolutions.”