Indictment For A Belated New Year's Wishes

I review the bad habits spread before me:

The wine, the cheese, the bourbon and gin;

The drinking-too-much-on-the-odd-school-night;

The chips and crackers (the better to have cheese with);

The smokes that diminish, one-by-one -- but now only only every other month;

The hours wasted on blog posts, and comments, and arguments that never will be resolved; and,

The work that never seems to end and yet I can't say no to it, and it comes more more more like I'm a hungry sparrow-chick.

All you damn bad habits.

Yes, I think I'll keep you all.

Happy New Year!

Comments

[hilzoy]

von: Happy new year, and definitely keep the blog posts habit ;)

[dutchmarbel]

Happy new year Von, and definately keep the posting habit :)

[chdb]

Since this seems to be an open thread, I present this speech Canadian PM Paul Martin gave today, in case anybody was wondering if they'd ever hear a speech like you see on The West Wing come out of a real politician:

http://weblogs.macleans.ca/paulwells/archives/week_2006_01_01-2006_01_07.asp#002019

[Kelley bell]

I hear ya. Oh how I hear ya.

[Delicious Pundit]

Or to quote that old louche supporter of the Greek insurgency:

Oh Pleasure! you're indeed a pleasant thing,
Although one must be damn'd for you, no doubt:
I make a resolution every spring
Of reformation, ere the year run out,
But somehow, this my vestal vow takes wing,
Yet still, I trust, it may be kept throughout:
I'm very sorry, very much ashamed,
And mean, next winter, to be quite reclaim'd.

[Anarch]

Anyone else catch the Adult Swim bumps on their New Year's Resolutions?

[dr ngo]

"John woke on Jan. 1st and felt queer.
He said 'Crackers I'll swear off this year;
For the lobster and wine
And the brandy were fine,
And it certainly wasn't the beer!'"

(19th century limerick, recalled from mid-20th century memory)