Plans for the new year...........

[StormChaser]

What are everybodies hopes and plans for the next year ? Any projects that where in the pipeline that finally get a chance ?
Big changes, new stuff to buy etc. etc.

My big plan is to move to a new house and get myself a bigtime oversized workspace, so I can finally find a space for my coffeemug. Second monitor naturally and hopefully a dual G5, get my site up by the end of january and have myself a great year while I'm doing it.
:cheers:

[Swampy]

Day by day.... :)

Get rich. Remodel the Kitchen, Rebuild the deck in the back yard. Dunno. :)

[Tom V]

Take more time off to spend with my kids,
Find a mistress
Ride my bike more
Take a trip or two and call 'em vacations
Move to a new house
Loose weight
:monalisa:

[deMille]

Spend more camera time going back to shooting what I want (rather than just to please the client).

Strive to experience some of that excitement I had when I first started shooting.

Play more music.

Allow myself to be content with myself.

[Bill C]

Find a job (been out since May!)
Shoot More Pictures & Improve My Photographic Style/Techniques
Read more
More quality time with the wife (married 32 years)

Everyone have a joyous, wonderful Holiday Season.
Bill

[sandman]

In order.
Stay healthy
.
Finish concreting my yard .... only 6 meters more finish today..
.
Have a long and well deserved break of a month or more .
Lyn fancies the far east / australia.
Me. i fancy Canada/ U.S.A fly drive .
That way i can visit a few of you and get a few free cups of coffee .
Knowing my luck after the arguements we'll end up in iceland..

But most of all to still be here this time next year.

Brian

[Igor]

Make my world better.

Put more time/attention to my son

Buy a 3200x2400 panel (better laptop with such panel)

Finally find out how good are the older Nikkors (AI, AIS) on the S2 :)

P.S. Just forgot one of my main plans!!!!


BUY A FUJI S3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jhawk1000]

Work smarter!

Take short trips to recharge the work batteries!

Help Linda more in her business!

Do more volunteer work for the Olympic Gymnastic School in Deva, Romania!

Get my ducks in a row to retire in two years from yesterday!

Stay in touch with all the new friends we made in Romania!

Finish my materials for two exhibits at our Nature Center!

Sleep more! Take more meaningful photos!

Let someone else edit our legal magazine!

Save some money!

Buy a D2X if it ever comes out!

Mel

[smunky]

Learn to play piano
Get rid of the dent in my trunk that has been there for a year in Jan
Get new audio speakers for my house (B&W!)
Get that 70-200 VR
Repaint house inside
Find a new banjo teacher.

[High ISO!]

Build my business
Buy more stuff....
Olympus P440,
Epson1280 or 2200,
a new camera (S3) if it's NOT full frame!

Get that NATCH for ISO!
Go to NADAC Championships with ISO!
Try to qualify for AKC Agility Nationals....ohhh darn they moved them to 2005...
Get HyperZoom back in training in obedience & agility, so she can compete too!

Not stress myself out so much that I get sick like I was ALL summer this year. I'm NOT waiting another year for that NATCH!
(NADAC Agility Trial CHampion)

I wish everyone to be happy, healthy & prosperous, in the new year!

Alissa

[Linda G]

Build my business

Train Mel to be a better Sherpa

Train the dogs about OUTSIDE

Continue to get involved in my community (Make a Wish and Lights on St Paul [fundraiser for mentally and physically handicapped individuals])

Continue to get involved in my adopted Romanian city


Sleep? I see that posted here and there, what is it?

Quit going half heartedly into ventures, learn to dive in.

Learn Romanian

There's more, just too tired to think of it!

[Serge]

...keep on dancing like no-one is watching,
and loving like I've never been hurt before...

want less...
give more

take better shots...
slow down and enjoy the ride.

:)

Peace for 2004 :cheers:

[5string]

1) Write tunes for a NASCAR banjo album.
2) Wrangle some "name brand" musicians for the album.
3) Record Album
4) Play banjer
5) Play banjer
6) Play banjer
7) Play banjer
8) and if there's some time left.....play banjer.

[5string]

Smunky...before you look for a new banjer teacher and endeavor further into the sinful abyss of banjerdom, check this out.

[smunky]

I t hink thats already happened to me!
My god, what happened to my teeth!

[ianmcc]

Hey did you see there is a Bluegrass tribute to Led zepplin?

My new year's plans include reducing the amount of cash I am spending on tech realted books,... and we're trying to have a baby. you think the two are related in anyway? :-)

[jhawk1000]

A Bluegrass tribute to Led Zeppelin??????

Is that kinda like Merle Haggard singing Frank Sinatra?

:)

Mel

[ianmcc]

there are two volumes.check it out (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004W5AJ/qid=1072238227/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_16_2/701-7327952-9837906)

[jhawk1000]

Ian

Thanks for the link. I did check the previews. Now I must preface these remarks so you know that I have nothing at all against bluegrass and enjoy bands such as Del McCoury and even some of the old Flatt & Scruggs picking but-------I also like Led Zeppelin very much. I guess that I can not really figure out why Led Zeppelin music needs a Bluegrass rendition. Once again, I also can not figure out members of one of the political parties but evidently quite a few do. I guess it is either a taste acquired or one for a true bluegrass fan.

It was different to hear Kashmir in bluegrass.

Mel

[StormChaser]

I'm glad this turned out to be a fun thread.:cheers:

[Igor]

Anthonie, thanks for beginning this interesting thread.

[S_Leeper]

1. See Led Zeppelin at the bluegrass festival!!!
2. Learn how to use CS.
(Do I really have to read the manual???)
3. Clean the downstairs, so I can reclaim my office, the kids will
have a play room that doubles as a studio.
(This is a repeat for the past several years.)
4. Suggest to senior mgt that they establish a forum like this for
employees, to compliment e-mails... (Not that they usually
listen to me. Shawn or Bryan do either of you have a
packaged presentation?)

[Swampy]

We're end users of vBulletins, not sales people for them. :) This is one of the more feature rich forums out there though.

Heck, let them sign on here. Someone else did to show thier boss or something at work to try and sell them on it.

[S_Leeper]

Thanks for letting me know.

[migdomu]

Use my S2 till it burns (taking photos of my baby, she/he will be born in May) :D
More sport (practice, not watching TV)
Less work
Less beer :beerchug:

[Don65Stang]

More beer, less workflow.
Further develope my PSCS skills.
Keep the accounting / books current.
More weddings & raise prices.
Pay off the credit card (VR lens & AlienBees) thank God for 6 mo 0 interest.
Finish my MBA.

Now the important stuff.
Play with my kids more.
Play with my wife more.
More beer, less workflow.


:cheers:

[smunky]

Oh theres the secret to how you guys have the VR that I cant get :)
I dont use credit so if I dont have the $ for it on hand, im not getting it unfortunately.
As is the case right now with the VR lens and the new Bees
(and did i mention the ipod)

[Melody]

Build a new business, well it sounds better than spend money on a hobbie! Or it was easier to sell to my husband that way

I just ordered the epson 9600, and a 40x64 maxi press so I can put pictures on fabric. I've sewn and to put the two hobbies together is going to be interesting. I can't wait to make a suede vest with a picture of a wolf or my dogs on it that no one else has, I like the creative process and unique things. I just read about making silk drapes with images on them my mind is swirling with that possibility along with others.

My basic goals for the new year are for my husband and myself to be healthy and happy. OH yes and for our current business to continue well so I can afford my hobbies!

Wishing you all health, happiness, and prosperity for the new year.

Melody

[killians913]

Smunky,

You have the right idea to pay for everything in cash! Regrettably, not all of us can do that so we have to control our credit card impulses and be very judicious.

[Don65Stang]

Mostly, I operate on a cahs basis, however, I needed the lights now and the 6 mo no interest got me to order the VR as well. All will be paid off before then.

Maybe the S3 will be out by then so I can start the process over again, hehe.

[Tom V]

For 2004, I vow to:

Stop procrastinating, perhaps around March. Maybe sooner, if I get around to it.

Take more pictures of my wife and kids, if they look any better or more interesting than they did in 2003.

Spend more time with myself.

Work only 40 hours per week, leaving 128 hours for sleep.

Think more clearly probably organize could thoughts my so truck I confusion end.

[Serge]

Lets see, do well in my new job.
Stop living in the past, forgive and forget.
Make peace with my estranged wife, which has started to happen, don't know if reconciliation is on the cards, but just to be friends and I am having Christmas dinner with the family. See my sons develop into fine men.
That's not asking to much, is it?
Gratefull for tender mercies! :)


Wishing everyone here, Peace, Love and Hapiness at this special time and for a prosperous and safe New Year :righton: