2006

There won't be any introspection from me, no looking back to 2005 and rehashing any particular moment or event or nuance. I'm all for looking forward, onward and upward. The year is already one week old, fifty one to go. Some say time flies when you're having fun, other say time flies as you get older. I like to think of it as time is flying faaaaaaaaaaster as I'm having fun getting older. I stopped saying I was 29 ages ago, it got a bit stale after the third year, I won't bother when 39 comes around, it will be straight onto 40, well as straight as a bent guy can.

I'm currently on leave, this year it hasn't been interrupted. I'm making a point of doing very little. Lots of sun, family and friends. Catching up on a ton of reading. My magazine pile is a metre high. I'm at home this afternoon baby-sitting my nephew. An amazing product of love and technology. Here he sits on the couch next to me watching my every move. He can tell I'm not his dad but he can't quite work out why we are so much alike yet not the same person. When he sits on my knee facing me he will reach out and touch my face looking for that non-existant goatee that his father sports, he'll then run a finger along my left eyebrow in search of the piercing scar that I also don't share. Life, I hold it in my hands and bounce it on my knee, precious, unique nothing else compares.

Time for a swimming lesson...won't be long before it's driving lessons.