Clean Slate

The new year is like leaving your home town, and relocating to a place where no one knows you. You can now reinvent yourself, and be whomever you want to be. If you grew up in Kansas or Connecticut, and it wasn't cool to be gay, move to Houston or D.C., and let your free flag fly baby. The new year gives all of us a chance to forget about all the things we didn't accomplish last year, and work on a whole new list of crap we may or may not accomplish this year.

The one thing we can't plan for is the unexpected. We don't expect people to die, unless we know they are terminally ill, very old, or have a serious health condition that is life threatening. We don't plan on getting hit by a bus crossing the street, trampled by a herd of spooked cows, the old back gives out again, the house burns down, twist an ankle walking the dog, die in a plane crash, and yet all these things do happen everyday.

If I survive this new year this is my list of things I would like to accomplish before 2013 is in the rear view mirror. These are not in order of priority, and once again are subject to change. We operate on an open strategy concept.

1) Complete my food/diet/lifestyle change and loss 70 pounds. More details on this tomorrow.

2) Help my friend Michael get settled in his own place in Oakland.

3)  Finish writing a screen play I started working on.

4) Go to Hawaii with Geri in February.

5) Visit my main man Rod Backman in Seattle, and all his hillbilly friends up north. Play music to 4:00 am, and get good and loaded doing it. (Gotta let the dog out of the cage once in a while)

6) Finish my advanced video class at Laney College.

7) Visit my friend Chef Chris Grant and his family in the Mississippi Delta, and do a bunch of cooking down there. Play the blues in Mississippi.

8) Finish a video I'm working on.

9) Turn 60. No plans for a big party yet.

10) Have a sausage making party at the La De Da Cafe with my hippie/hillbilly friends.

11) Put in night lighting and finish hooking up the sink at the La De Da Cafe.

12) Finish painting the side and the front of the house. This is year #4 I been threatening to do this.

13) Get the trailer outfitted with a solar unit,  install the camp stove, and relocate it back up to our property in Surprise Valley.

14) Visit my buddy Joey and his family.

15) Repaint the teardrop trailer.

That's it. If I can do all this I'll be amazed.

Good luck with wiping your old slate clean, and getting your "things to do" list achieved in 2013.

Keep your corks popped, and your pipes packed.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War

Food Consumption Today 1-1-13

Breakfast: banana, cereal, soy milk, black tea

Lunch: leftover shrimp with wild rice and black eyed peas

Snacks: nuts, raisins, apple, 2 piece of french bread with finely shaved cheddar cheese

Dinner: Big salad with greens, nuts, black olives, apple, cherry tomatoes, S & P

Exercise: 3 miles trail walk, 1 mile street walk