2009

  Sitting and surveying a new and unwrinkled 2009 stretched out in front of me.  So far I haven't fired a shot, found an arrowhead, raked a leaf, burned a stick, swapped a cam card or spent a nickle. 

  I have hugged the Redhead and had brunch.  List making and record pulling to commence.  New check registers all around.

  The New Year is an imaginary artifact: yesterday and today remarkably the same, but its like your birthday.  It may SEEM the same......but you can't go back.

  So, forward we go.