Happy New Year

Well, I'm not where I thought I would be this New Years. A lot has changed in my life. I was married and am now in the process of getting divorced. My direction has changed quite a bit. I had hoped to have some new life plans in the works, of course things being what they are, that has not gone as planned.

In the coming year I hope to live life to the fullest. I want to stop thinking and dwelling so much on things. I want to eliminate the aspect of fear and "what if" from my decisions. I want to see the positive aspect of things. I want to summit Mt Whitney since I didn't quite make it this past year. I want to get into shape and do more yoga and drink and smoke less. I want to make less compromises to my diet, and continue being conscious about the quality of food I eat. I want to take a couple international vacations. I want to be more social and make some new friends.

We'll see how it all goes.

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I have been quiet lately

But here are a few things that are going on as the year winds down:

I leave tomorrow on a little adventure. Taking the Amtrak from San Diego to NYC. The trip will entail 3 Amtrak trains, and 4 different public transportation systems. The city bus from my house to the San Diego Amtrak Station (Santa Fe Depot). From there to LA, then on to Chicago. Then to NYC (Penn Station). From there I hope the Subway to Grand Central, where I need to then buy a ticket on the Metro North to get to Stratford, CT, where my mom will pick me up. It's a shame I can get to my mom's house via public transportation, as that would be quite a feat if I could go public transit door to door.

Everyone at my company got an IPod Touch from our boss. I am in love with it. Also, I got a nice little bonus, as well as a raise. I am making way more money than I need and the more I make the harder it will be to eventually make my escape from the corporate world. However, I am keeping my life simple so I am quickly accumulating a nice little cash reserve. I have also become satisfied for the moment with my job and my situation. Don't worry too much, I still hate that I spend my life in a cubicle.

I am trying to plan a few trips for next year. I would like to do a volunteer vacation, probably in Central or South America. I am looking into my options. I would also like to do a 1 or 2 week trip "for fun" to somewhere that I would need my passport. I have 4 weeks PTO next year, so both should be doable.

That's it for now. Gotta crank out my last day of work. Tomorrow I begin my adventure.

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ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH

Feedburner has got to be the most ridiculously ambiguous service ever. I have been trying to for two months to get the freakin thing to work. I have followed all directions to "burn" my feed and redirect my existing feeds to it, and NOTHING has worked. I have a feedburner feed that says it hasn't been updated in a month, and no redirected is working. Also, if I subscribe directly to the feedburner feed, I don't see any of those "email this | add to delicious" links at the bottom, even though I added them and activated them in feedburner. Of course I probably don't see them because it says my feed hasn't been updated in a month. And Blogger and Feedburner both say redirecting is a piece of cake, but I don't have "the option" that they say is the magical answer in my control panel ... I think because I publish to my own domain. Anyone have any help for me? I am a computer geek, I can't imagine how non-techies do this.

UPDATE: Ok, one problem solved. For some reason when I first created my feedburner feed it got messed up, and when I recreated it it was using the same name, but continued to be messed up, thus none of the changes I was making were getting added to the feed. That is now solved, I just renamed my feedburner feed. But now, when I try to subscribe, it only shows the bad feedburner name and not the new good healthy one. And second problem is the redirect, still not working.

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