I’ve been on this thing for almost ten years now and I can’t say I’ve been introspective all that much, but it is lonely on Christmas Eve with nobody to celebrate with. I’ve had a good year, Browns not withstanding, work has been good, I’ve even dated a few people. How can I really complain? I mean, I talked my best friends wife into letting him come to California with me next year.

I also managed to save a lot for the first time in my life, I know I’m like 8 years behind the game at this point, no 32 year old should be proud of that, but it was savings to me for the first time, and out of credit card debt for the first time since I’ve had one.

As I write this, ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ comes on my Pandora, and how fitting, we are a slave to money then we die. I’m going to hibernate this winter and do next to nothing, in the hope that California is everything that I’m hoping it can be. Who knows, maybe I’ll even write more. but I don’t hold my breath at picking up a guitar again, as romantic as it seems.

This year I stay on the boring and straight and narrow and keep my head down and pretend like I haven’t been fucking around since college, that’s the goal. All I know for sure is that I’m ecstatic to be typing this on a MacBook Pro that I have made sacrifices for and now I’m back in the game.

I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been down…again.