One of the things that always interests me is how often the new year is used as a point of introspection both in terms of what happened last year and things that are goals for next year.  I think it has to do with how the changing of the year makes us think about our morality.  I guess I’m going to be no different…

Looking back I’m happy about the things that happened to me:

• Got out of Credit Card dept!
• Visited NYC!
• Moved in with Stephanie!
• Got engaged to Stephanie!
• Ran Several 5k and 10k races including the warrior dash (I wish I had a complete count )

Overall it was a great year and (as I normally do) I want to document my goals for the following year:

• Get married to Stephanie without having a nervous breakdown from all the stress
• Lose 30 lbs before my wedding (2012-10-20)
• Run a half marathon
• Have at least $1500 saved for retirement
• Finally come up with a single topic blog and post to it regularly
• Develop my own WordPress theme for my blogs
• Get a side business website up and running by my birthday
• 10 more 5k/10k/half-marathons

This year I’ll do my best to keep track of my progress here:

http://www.scottwarren.info/resolutions/

After surviving four different Thanksgivings Stephanie and I finally have a date and place for our Wedding (October 20th, 2012 [10-20-12]) at Whiting Forest.

This is interesting. Ford has starting selling new 1965 Mustang bodies but just the bodies. I guess between this and DeLorean starting up production we can finally get some new cool old cars.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/10/28/ford-unveils-new-165-ford-mustang/

Stephanie and I are engaged to be married!

We are still working out all the details (and thanks to theknot.com we have a lot of them to figure out) but it’s most likely going to be a spring wedding. Everything else seems inconsequential to that.

A very cool video that shows off how huge Lego creations are made.

On Monday, Billie and I taped the Candidates Forum for the open Midland Public Schools Board of Education. It was fairly boring but if you’re interested it can be found here: mms://vod.mps.k12.mi.us/340-120111017SchoolBoardCandidatesForum.wmv

Stephanie and I had a little dinner party that Sissy, Mike and Mary showed up to. We invited other people but they were busy.

On Sunday, Josh, Billie, and I went to Cadillac for an eleven hour Geocaching session. We found fifty Geocaches:

50 geocaches

I had hoped that this would push me past 400 but I was nine short:

Via Instructables

I’ve finally determined what I’m doing with this blog.

After thinking about it for a while I realized that blogs are really helpful when they pick a single item of interest and STICK to it. So from now on I’m only going to post information about what I’m doing and things I’ve done. I’m working on breaking the more technical pieces off onto it’s own site (which will eat away at all of random Google visitors but oh well).

Talk to you soon.

Some of us at work found out about this crazy “race” called “Warrior Dash“. We’ll be competing in it on July 31st at 8 AM if anyone wants to join in.

I hate to add more to the disaster porn but this is a crazy video of the Tsunami:

It’s amazing how quickly the water move whole buildings. It must have been really scary watching the water get that close.