Can't believe this thread is still going. Love it.

Oh dear.

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Yes - wrong goals and changing goals ISNT success. That was a negative point.

So what's everyone got planned for the new year...

Me?

A new deck on my house.

Lots of fun with with some of our new partners at http:www.pollenizer.com

Hopefully some more travel, maybe to places I've never been including India, South America.

Maybe a little version of me....

Endless adventures.

The moon looks bigger when it's close to the horizon. It's an optical illusion. Being next to things you know the scale of makes it appear larger.

But it was a closer moon, which did make it marginally larger.

From the party pooper.

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