It's now 2011. This seems somehow both wrong and tremendously novel. I should get used to this happening annually but I can't. DOES THAT MAKE ME AN ANIMAL?!
Oh. On typing that I turned into a zebra. Luckily my keyboard has been similarly transformed into a hoof-friendly giant size so I shall continue in my usual manner. By which I mean sporadically and with weird tangents, similes and references by the kilopound. It's a cool thing I do. It's not cool to say I do cool things is it? Fine, I'll get on with it.
Last year I posted (on this very blog) my resolutions for the year 2010. I passed all five of them. Therefore, I'm seeing if lightning can strike not only twice, but continually over a period of two years. I have always longed to be a lightning rod.
These are my New Year's Resolutions with my reasoning and other commentary. [/barely necessary description]
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1: Go swimming at least 50 times
As a man with a body, I have on occasion considered that said body could look better. In particular, I'm often given far too much credit for looking good from people who have just seen me at favourable angles. Unlike me-in-photos-taken-by-a-internet-friend's-DSLR, I photograph pretty well but I sometimes am put in a position where I move a lot and I feel my lack of physical tonality all too well. To this end I knew I had to make an exercise-based resolution. I enjoy swimming and it's much cheaper and well rounded an exercise than I'd expect to enjoy at a gym so I've decided I should go regularly. I like to quantify my goals so I've set once-a-week with 2 weeks off. I like to reduce the possibility of unbeatable failure so I've flexitized the goal to 50 times.
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2: Make at least 12 videos for my YouTube channel
I made and completed this resolution last year and I was looking for a resolution to do with making videos. I considered some sort of specific goal that would make them easier to produce by upgrading things but in the end, as long as I'm making them, I'll fix things as I go anyway. Hopefully I'll fix my webcam so I can use it's helpful accessibility. Maybe I'll find a reliable tripod-esque option for my phone. Maybe (hopefully/probably), I'll get a new computer with a capacity to handle editing better files from start to finish. All of these things could (and hopefully shall) come from me just getting down to it and making videos.
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3: Save money each month
I said I like to quantify my resolutions. You may have noticed that this is fairly unquantified. I figured that quantifying stuff to do with my finances online reveals more than I'd like to about the cashflow in my life. I have set a minimum amount per month and an overall amount I'd like to see in my savings account by the end of the year but I'm going to keep that in my mind and in a file on my computer. I will be sure to inform people if I have failed though.
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4: See people outside of London/gatherings
Last year, one of my completed resolutions was to go to a gathering. I managed this within the first two weeks of 2010. Over the past 12 months I've been to many gatherings and made lots of friends, even more acquaintances, a couple of people with whom I have a mutual recognition of but mutually little to say and (AFAIK) zero enemies. In making friendships with southern peoples, I have developed a habit of popping to London on a semi-regular basis. In fact I have visited London eight times since August's Summer in the City gathering. This isn't a bad thing at all but I feel like I should spend some time seeing the other people I converse with that aren't the type to spend their spare time in London or at (what are primarily considered to be) YouTube gatherings. Therefore, I'm hoping to entice some folks to my neck of the woods, and to travel north, east and west to the peeps who I see less frequently but are no less loved. Again, this resolution seems a little unquantifiable. Again, there is a number of times I have fixed in my head and on my computer.
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5: Get/keep up-to-date with Super Sentai
I love and have always loved Power Rangers. The idea of transforming into a superhero though motions, words and button-presses is a fundamentally joyous and exciting fantasy in my psyche. I stopped watching the show when I became a teenager because I stopped getting up on mornings that I didn't have school and I didn't enjoy Power Rangers Turbo conceptually. Then a few years ago, I was faffing around with Sky and discovered that Jetix showed continual repeats of current and older series and I got back into watching them again. Yes, some of them were bad (Wild Force), but some of them were brilliant (Time Force, Mystic Force). Then after some time, I found out about the original series that spawned the Power Rangers franchise was called Super Sentai and was still produced and broadcast weekly on Japanese television. Then they did a massive crossover episode for their 30th anniversary and I found a site that subtitled the episodes and made them available to download: TV Nihon. After just one (relatively out-of-context) show, I was tremendously excited all over again, and started to watch the franchise from Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger onwards.
However, as with much of the programmes I plan to watch, I fell behind. I've recently been spurred on to watch more by a wish to finish Engine Sentai Go-Onger before watching the US adaptation Power Rangers RPM. A similar wish (plus a gigantic passionate love of the theme, team and their powers) has made me watch Samurai Sentai Shinkenger at a rate previously unheard of. They've announced that the series starting in February will be pirate-themed and that the team will travel through all of the previous Sentai universes meeting and making use of the powers of previous teams. This makes my brain go wibbly and my awesometer break. Therefore I want to get up to speed so I can watch things as they happen. I had previously considered missing out the year-long series of Tensou Sentai Goseiger as it hadn't gripped me conceptually but the dimension hopping Goukaiger's likely visit of them and some of the pictures I've seen of Gosei Knight and beyond have made me reconsider. So this puts me in the position of having approximately 80 episodes of Super Sentai to catch up with, while a new episode is aired in Japan almost every week. Sounds like a challenge I'd love to accept.
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And there you have it. I may use this blog for more things in the coming year but it will certainly be the place I put the most writing and the detailed list for New Year's Resolutions 2012.
Sunday 2 January 2011
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