Resolutions on Swoll

You're looking at Post #99 of 2010. One more to reach the century mark.

Is this post necessary? Not at all. Consider it a grab bag of the writer's musings.

Let's start with New Year's resolutions. I haven't got any good ones. The best one I ever had was leading into 2006 when I resolved to always try a new restaurant if I had a say in the matter.

I had become stuck in a routine of going to the same five restaurants (I can't even remember which five they were, but the Silk Road Palace was certainly one of them).

I have certain objectives for the year ahead. For instance, the company I work for provides complimentary access to basically all the big museums.

I've taken advantage of this perk about once or twice in the 5.5 years I've worked there. I'm working there for another 6 months or so, and in that time I'm going to make the most of the offer. (Somewhere Sip is passing me the salt for talking about museums on a baseball blog).

There you have it! It just clicked for me: my resolution is to explore the shit out of New York City in the remaining 8 months before I move to Boston. I have to iron out a few of the particulars: beyond the museums, what else can I do to say I made good on the resolution? Restaurants of course, but I need other, more unexpected options.

Maybe the answer is to just keep my eyes open. I have a friend whose fiancee is always inviting big groups of people to play whiffle ball in Prospect Park; I've never done it, principally out of sheer laziness. That changes in the next 8 months.

As for the Mets, one resolution: BE BETTER!

- A.F.O.M.G.