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Here cometh a new year - so here also cometh a new resolution.

Time to shape up, attempt to live a grown-up's life, go easy on the drink and harder at the gym. Lots of other similar subversive thoughts come to mind, but I will do my best to hold on until the next fortifying whisky has helped fight-off all the optimism and enthusiam which come along as part and parcel of another spin around the sun. Must be something to do with the interplay between the gravitational, electromagnetic and the weak and strong nuclear forces and the tilt of the axis and the earth's precise location in its orbit on 31 December each year.

Some people say that 2 January is too early in the new year to get cynical - but since I got to cynical a few years ago, I should be fine. In fact, this may be one of the only times ever when I have made it to anything early. But that is a matter for another time and day.

Since this first post isn't really heading anywhere, it is time to stop. Brevity is the soul of wit and all that.