My hard drives are talking to me again, and i dont have to fork over $1k+ to get my data recovered. Oh glorious day!

Of course now I will end up spending even more money making sure my system never ever even gets close to failing again! but whatever

As a reminder, go make two backups of the shit you cant replace, because it can happen to you, and I just got lucky…

is the very hardest thing anyone can ever do. I can articulately romanticize it but I’m still remarkably terrible at it. It’s just so obnoxious and cumbersome. There is no impulsive gratification, and you lose track of it for a second and it seems like you have to start over from nothing. Its spinnable into all sorts of things that can seem pleasant, but you still have to break that shell. And for my part, the main part, looking up at some great amount of timeline left to make sense of – I must start being who I am instead of who I’ve become. That’s how you refuse to forfeit a second of your non-never-ending life.

“And so we beat on…boats against the current…” but instead born forward ceaselessly into the future, as far as hard work and blind optimism can take us.

I say fuck resolutions. Resolutions based on some arbitrary date are excuses in disguise. The true resolution is an immediate course correction the instant you realize it makes great sense.

BUT

Looking at the next year, as we can’t help but classify our lives in years – I expect the following a year from today…

1) I will finish the largest journal I have ever tried to fill. One I started in August of 2003. Then I will start the next one.

2) I will have a record label and it will be damn interesting

3) I will read

4) I will end the year in New York City, so help me…

5) I will be significantly healthier, mentally and physically, than I am (specifically) right now

6) chasdanner.com will be much more interesting