An Experiment in Scotch

It’s been sev­eral months since we’ve had an update on our ill-fated New Year’s res­o­lu­tions here at The Exper­i­ment and since we’re rapidly approach­ing the mid point of the year, it seems like as good a time as any to get caught up. As always, there is good news and bad news. Since I’m a …

I made some res­o­lu­tions this year and in an attempt to keep them, I’m writ­ing about the progress every month. The first month update was here. Month two fell behind a lit­tle bit. First the good news: I played enough golf to stay on track for 26 times this year. I don’t seem to be …

So it doesn’t make much sense to me to make res­o­lu­tions for the year and then promptly for­get about them until Decem­ber. With that in mind, I’m going to do monthly updates on my res­o­lu­tions. Over­all, the first month wasn’t bad. I’m pretty behind on the 52 let­ters with only 1 writ­ten so far. I …

I’ve pre­vi­ously done some 2008 navel gaz­ing and now it’s time to pub­licly lay out some res­o­lu­tions for 2009 if for no other rea­son than enjoy­ing humil­i­a­tion. So here they are, in all their bor­ing glory. Write 52 let­ters. Prob­a­bly will mostly be to fam­ily. Write a novel in Novem­ber. Start play­ing the sax again. Do a …