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It’s New Year’s Eve 2009 – just – and as of a few minutes ago, those of us in the Eastern U.S. began the final day of the final year of the first decade of the 21st century. Not that there’s any significance to any of that – but it makes for a nice lead-in…

After I punch the “Publish” button on this one, DaveRea.com will enter 2010 with 497 posts. Despite the frivolousness of our collective tendency to assign significance to arbitrary milestones (you know – odometer readings, anniversary multiples, centennials and the like) I’ll do my best to make my 500th post a special one.

In the mean time, I’ve got some New Year’s enjoying to do – Kelly and I plan to ring in the new year with friends this time around, a departure from our boring-by-comparison celebrations of the past few years, which usually consisted of one or both of us falling asleep long before midnight, then groggily stumbling to bed while mumbling our happy-new-years to each other while sleepily brushing our teeth. Actually, to be honest, I can’t even remember how we welcomed 2009, and my new year’s eve post from last December isn’t much help.

Nobody from DaveRea.com’s vast* commentariat bothered to answer my questions last New Year’s Eve, so (apart from this post’s title), I won’t bother asking any here. I will, however, mention a few blog-oriented resolutions… First among them being my participation in Project52, wherein I hope to post at least one entry per week here throughout 2010. We’ll see how that goes. I’d also like to give DaveRea.com’s underpinnings a bit of an overhaul – the theme is tired, the database has been neglected at the back of the fridge for a few too many months, and a most of the stuff I currently accomplish with plug-ins has been merged into the Wordpress core code. So migrating to a fresh install with a new theme will probably happen sometime soon too…

At any rate, if perchance you’ve stumbled upon this site and are (inexplicably) still reading this far down the post, I wish you and yours a very happy New Year. May your celebrations be safe, your memories of 2009 be warm, and your expectations for 2010 be high.

* In this context, the word “vast” really refers to about 6 or 8 people… Maybe…

Ever been on the fence about doing something, then tossed caution to the wind and jumped in at the last minute? Maybe it was a stop at the bar with friends after work, booking tickets for an on-a-whim vacation, or signing onto a petition. Your first impression says “meh” and you err on the side of indifference, but just before the window of opportunity closes, you decide to go for it.

That’s sort of how it went with this blog and my discovery of Project52. Back in October, I consciously decided not to participate in NaBloPoMo 2009 (and apparently I wasn’t alone in that decision) because life is just too busy right now. But a post a week? I think I can handle that. So keep tuned in here as we enter 2010 – it may not be pretty, it may not be literary, and it may not be inspired, but I’ll do my best to put up something interesting or comment-worthy or just plain fun at least once a week…

[hat tip: Pauley]