December 26, 2006
I need to knuckle down for the remainder of the year (only half-joking). Big goals looming for next year. I have set a self-imposed deadline for The Top Secret Project prototype to be finished by February one. Backing in my deadlines, I need to have the 10-page-prototype roughed in by this weekend.

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”
—Jim Rohn

I received a couple great gag gifts for my 60th birthday. On my desk in the office was a T-shirt that has these words emblazened on the front: “Never trust anyone over 70.” And the card, from my friends Gregg and Susan Clancy said, “Welcome to the new sixties!”

“Police Sketch Artist Likes How Portrait of Serial Rapist Turned Out.”
—Onion 2007 Day-By-Day Calendar (Christmas gift from Deena)

“The angel of inspiration favors the hopeful and the confident.”
—Old Vaquero Saying

On The Other Hand
“The writer’s secret is not inspiration, but stubbornness and endurance.”
—Old Vaquero Saying

Of course I worry about being too cocky at my age, because. . .

”However decrepit a man may be, he thinks he has another 20 years.”
—Old Montaigne Saying