Now that 2005 is behind me I can confidently review the results of my attempt to fulfill my resolutions from last year. Before I try to weasel out of these I will first list the things that I did accomplish in 2005 that were not on my original list of resolutions.

* Got Jeremy to move out and employed Jeremy at a new start-up
* Get married to Sarah
* Had a baby with Sarah
* Moved from one side of my condo to the other and painted the whole condo
* Watched the entire first season of both Lost and 24
* Got halfway through reading Infinite Jest
* Built a reporting server and initial set of reports for a healthcare company
* Got through one year at a new bootstrap start-up and am receiving a salary
* Watched my former company get sold and purportedly will receive some minor compensation for it
* Learned how to use Macromedia Captivate to make screen capture movies

With that being said here is what happened with the rest of them:

* Get a job as an exotic male dancer

I looked into this for some time to find a local club using the Internet as my main tool to investigate. From what I could determine there is no exotic male dancer club in Massachusetts. The nearest one that I could locate in January was one in New York City. Since it was going to be a long commute and Sarah was pregnant I temporarily stopped my stringent daily workout regimen and gained ten pounds over the course of the year instead of losing ten pounds. So now I am further from this goal than ever. It isn't totally out of my sights but it is fading fast. I also never really learned how to dance properly.

* Finish making one film for the Boston independent film festival spring 2006

The lack of movie making was a fairly lame disappointment. Basically Robert and I put zero effort throughout the year into our filmmaking carreers. The result is that we did not edit the raw footage for Manufacturing Desire and didn't create a secondary concept to replace it. I have watched a lot of movies, mostly crappy Hollywood ones rather than the film festival circuit. Karen did take some footage of the wedding but nobody has edited it yet. I barely even have a minute of footage of Madeline as a small infant. Some filmmaker I am!

* Visit a country in Asia other than Japan

Nope. Unless San Francisco is considered Asia these days I didn't make it outside of North America. One trip to Canada but that was a funeral for my grandfather.

* Climb Machu-Pichu with friends

Hey. Who was responsible for organizing this trip? Falkoff, Kilimnik. This was a total failure of our annual cool trip planning. That's it. I'm going to have to plan Machu-Pichu for 2006 aren't I?

* Create the first prototype of the pet video game system

Well. Things got distracted. Luckily nobody has beaten us to the punch yet. There are people working on all sorts of pet services like social networks for pets (or pet owners) but no video games yet.

* Establish a consulting practice

We probably did a good job on this one. With help from Aaron, Shelley, Chris, and Jeremy together we have established a working model for a consulting practice that supports both our salaries and the freedom to build software products. We are considering how to expand this in a rational way in 2006.

* Execute phase I of world domination plan: Gain control of the media (hypnosis?)
Nope. I tried but the blog traffic is still very low. I include many subliminal messages in what I write but few people actually read it. Below is a graph of the traffic to the site over the course of the year. Don’t look at it too hard. It isn’t a magic eye image that will include dinosaurs or key subliminal control the media messages. At least the media is doing a good job of undoing the Republican party dingbats who have been breaking the law and forgetting about playing by the rules. I had nothing to do with this but I will take credit for it if someone asks.

* Add an FAQ to my personal website

Surprisingly although this is very simple it never got done. So I plan to quickly start one now in January of 2006 by adding the link and answering a few key questions.

* Have a great party in Marshfield once the house is fixed-up

The house never got too fixed-up. The pool was resurfaced or whatever you do to the pool along with the installation of a heater and we had a good time swimming in it towards the end of the year with the temperature cranked-up. I can push for more fixes for it next year. My parents did do a major renovation of 64 Homer Street and had a cool party on December 30th to show off the renovations and celebrate the holidays/New Year. Sarah and I also held a holiday party.

* Be nice to Sarah

Sarah can be the judge of this. I think I was pretty nice to her on the whole of things. We did get married this year after all.