{"id":24938,"date":"2023-12-31T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=24938"},"modified":"2023-12-30T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T05:48:01","slug":"my-2024-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/my-2024-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2024 Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n

The New Year hits tonight.\u00a0 The years keep rolling by and it’s time for my 2024 resolutions.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made a few, and with your indulgence, I’ll share them here.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to continue to hold my tongue (and my keyboard) on all things political.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never seen anyone read a social media post or a blog or listen to someone with an opposing viewpoint and suddenly exclaim, \u201cah, now I understand\u2026of course you\u2019re right, and I was wrong all along\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Nope, the era of intelligent political discourse ended in the 1960s with the Vietnam War protests.\u00a0 Back then, and now, everyone is convinced their opinion is the only true path.\u00a0 I\u2019m never going to call anyone ever again a leftwing idiot or a rightwing idiot, partly because of this resolution and partly because I hate being redundant.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to stop getting upset with people at the gym tying up machines while screwing around on their cell phones.\u00a0 Nope, you can sit on a machine and text to your heart\u2019s content.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just move on to another piece of equipment.\u00a0 Someday, though, when you’re standing in front of the Pearly Gates, you’ll have to answer.\u00a0 And I’ll be there.\u00a0 Just in case there are any questions.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to lose weight.\u00a0 The answer is to use that calorie tracker on my cell phone and exercise.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 This time I mean it.\u00a0 I want to be skinny like Gresh.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to cook more, but in line with the resolution above I\u2019ll eat less.\u00a0 I do a great barbequed salmon, a marvelous Italian meat sauce, delicious stuffed shells, a wonderful chili, incredible stuffed peppers, a great wild pork sausage and mushrooms casserole, tasty chicken tostadas, and a few others.\u00a0 I want to try making my own chile rellenos this year and find at least three more dishes to add to my repertoire.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to sell a few guns.\u00a0 I own too many to enjoy and more than a few that I don\u2019t shoot.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to convert these investments into cash and let others have some fun.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to ride my motorcycle and my bicycle more.\u00a0 I\u2019ve slowed down on my riding quite a bit in the last three years.\u00a0 Part of it is the pandemic\u2026law enforcement on our public roads has dropped to nearly nothing, and there are too many people driving like maniacs out there\u2026speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, and screwing around on their cell phones.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been hit by cars twice in my life while on two wheels (once on a motorcycle and once on a bicycle), and I don\u2019t care to add a third bone-breaking event to my resume.\u00a0 \u00a0But I haven’t been riding enough and I want to get out and ride.\u00a0 Get my knees in the breeze.\u00a0 \u00a0You know the feeling.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s time to put more pork on the table.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to do at least two hunts in 2024.\u00a0 One will be a varmint hunt for coyotes in Arizona with Baja John; the other will be a pig hunt with my 6.5 Creedmoor (location to be determined).\u00a0 If you\u2019re a vegetarian or fundamentally opposed to hunting, you have my permission to skip any blogs I write about these events.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not going to buy any more watches.\u00a0 I came across Segal\u2019s Law last year, which holds that a man with a watch knows what time it is, but a man with many watches is never sure.\u00a0 I’m the guy who’s never sure, raised to an exponent.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to do Baja again, most likely in March so I can see the whales, eat a chile relleno in San Ignacio, and visit Javier at the La Casitas in Muleg\u00e9.\u00a0 I think Gresh wants to go, too.\u00a0 Maybe we’ll get our other ExNotes writers in on the action.\u00a0 You’ll read all about it here on ExNotes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m retiring, for real this time.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll still write for the ExNotes blog and Motorcycle Classics<\/em> magazine (I enjoy writing for both and I never viewed either as work), but I\u2019m done with everything else.\u00a0 It\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

There you go…my 2024 resolutions.\u00a0 How about yours?<\/p>\n

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