Predictions and Resolutions for 2009.

I was at up at seven a.m. this morning (it being January 1). I should sleep longer but I just can't. And that I am up so early is a good thing because this will be a year of early risings and no sleeping-in. So I should resolve to continue my good habits while discontinuing the bad.

I resolve to more optimistic in the face of the everything and everybody saying I shouldn't be.

I resolve to be let the world know more of what I think, while keeping in mind that some things should not be said. That I let too many stupid things said to me go unchallenged is what I have in mind as I make this resolution. The policy of not naming names to protect the guilty, which I have only violated once in 2008, will continue except in a Mitch Miller situation where what the guilty have done is unforgivable. I love the story of Frank Sinatra running into Mitch Miller at an airport and telling him to keep on walking. Sinatra could never forgive Miller's bad musical judgement on a television show that they had done together and which was Sinatra's career low point. I should love what Christopher Hitchens did to this crowd of Bush-hating morons. The Bush has a low i.q. joke is a joke that stupid people can laugh at.

One of the lessons I learned in 2008 in a stark way was that some people won't change. People are often bad and can't be changed.

2009 will be a year of austerity for the family K. The plan to go to Canada will have to be put on the shelf for another year because we just can't afford it. The decision to not go will take some financial pressure off us.

What kind of year China will have is an interesting question. I don't see a peasant revolution happening where foreigners have to flee China for their lives. I see the Chinese trying to get ahead in the system as it is. There isn't enough disgruntlement yet or will ever be. China is like Mexico, an inefficient state full of corruption, always teetering, but never collapsing.

The world economy will see inflation.

U.S. politics will be sickening to watch. Despite some of Obama's centrist appointments, his administration will still be a ship of fools. The big 0's team seems determined to do something about Global Warming and to bring about socialized medicine.

Don't ask me the who, where, and how of it, but I predict that sometime in 2009, I will get in a fist fight. I know this conflicts with my desire to adopt the creed that says turn the other cheek, but as I have said there are bad people about who have to be fought. I also have a temper that I can't control if I am feeling just tired and annoyed enough.

Stephen Harper will still be Canadian Prime Minister at the end of 2009. The Liberals will back out of their marriage of convenience with the Separatists and hard-left Socialists.

Tony's first word will be Chinese.

in 2009, the wife and I will have one hundred fights in which I back down ninety nine times.

Mrs. Drummond and Mrs. Kaulins won't talk to each other for the whole year.

The Montreal Canadiens will win the Stanley Cup in 2009. I have no reason on which to base this prediction. I haven't looked at the National Hockey League standings for months. So this prediction is just a hope.


The wife changed her mind about today. In the last entry, I reported that she wanted to have her hair done. She now wishes to stay home and save money.


Tony and the wife are still sleeping as I type this entry. The maid is doing her thing.


I will make WTU 257, the first WTU of 2009 this afternoon.


Happy New Year!