New Year's Resolutions

My goals for 2014:

1.  To make significant progress in the following areas of primary importance:

• Photoshop - Using and creating brushes, patterns and textures, mastering the various types of layers
• Playing Bass - 

1. Increase my repertoire by learning at least one new song each week 
2. Learn to play more jazz and jazz swing
3. Increase my use of the standup acoustic bass, 
4. Sing more with a band; sing while playing bass
5. Increase frequency of solo practice -- one hour each day, minimum.

2.  Blogging -  

• Blog more frequently, try for daily postings
• Stop trying to be friends with certain bloggers who just don't seem to like me; provide support and links to others who do; find new friends and allies in the blogosphere 
• Improve my blog content so that it appeals to more readers
• Back up my blog monthly, to avoid losing content should enemies try to shut me down

3.  Other Goals -

• To extricate myself from accounting and taxes so I can focus on more interesting pursuits
• To refurbish and restore my 1966 Volkswagen Bug
• To exercise more by taking a daily walk of two miles, slowly increasing the distance
• To lose another ten pounds (twenty if possible)
• To continue my studies of the French and Spanish languages, by reading more blogs, articles and even books in these languages.