Start as you mean to go on, so lets see if I can keep it up.  I'll try to write a little journal every day through 2008 - my 60th year.

First of all, my hopes for 2008.  I will telephone the lady from Humberstones and put my business on the market.  I haven't totally lost interest in the Post Office but I do find it awfully difficult to motivate myself and I seem to have lost direction.  Funnily enough, the business is still making money though this year I intend stripping the Southgate rents out.  I also hope to complete my studies with some degree of success.  I feel I'll have a better opportunity with 'The American Story' this term.  I've made a good start by doing some pre -reading, made some notes and copied some stuff off the net.  I feel fairly confident with Writing Non Fiction and if I put enough effort in I should pass the English module, so that only leaves the American Short Story module to really concentrate on.

Also I intend raising my fitness levels so as to be able to take full advantage of the Cocos trip in October.  This will probably mean re-joining the Gym and a little bit of sensible dieting.  The new puppy should mean I'll be doing a lot more walking.

Holidays this year maybe difficult.  Firstly we have the puppy, but I have to get used to the idea of only having one staff member so I'll need to hire reliefs or engage somebody on a permanent basis.

Back to normal tomorrow.  It seems ages since I did a proper week's work.  Today I finished my holidays in style.  I started with a longish walk down through Miskin, around the cricket field and back.  I was out about 2 hours which isn't bad considering how young the puppy is.  She was quite good on the lead, and not at all tired when she got back home.  After breakfast I went fishing.  Bait was a small tin of luncheon meat and I managed to bag a decent common carp.  Got home at 2-00pm.  I spent the rest of the afternoon snoozing.  Television over the holiday period has been ok I suppose though it hasn't been possible to sit there for a whole afternoon and watch interesting stuff.  There's been a lot of old stuff on, stuff I've seen before.  Tonight I decided to check out my e-mails and start my blog for 2008 before going to bed early.  See you tomorrow.