The Shelly Beach made a list of things she wanted to do last year and I thought I’d try something similar myself for 2012. This list isn’t “career” related so hopefully those that get really sleepy reading about nerdy things won’t be bored. I’ll make those folks suffer through that list in another post.

Here is my 2012 list of things to do, in no particular order:

• Take one photo a day. Either with my fancy SLR or just my phone. Sharing them on the social Internets is optional.
• Facebook. I really don’t use Facebook so I need to either get active with it or just dump it completely. I’m leaning towards a dump because, quite frankly, the whole thing kind of gives me the heebie-jeebies. (Editor’s Note: I knew that word was hyphenated without having to look it up. It appears I don’t need to add “Confirm how smug and smart I think I am.” to this list).
• Survive the Mayan Apocalypse. Or really any other apocalypse be they of Mesoamerican or zombie origin. I think years of playing video games has prepared me pretty well for any zombie scenarios but I’d rather not have to test that theory.
• Write more. I think the word “blog” is stupid when used as either a noun or a verb. So I resolve to write more “posts” on this site and we can just ignore the irony of it all being done on the back of popular blogging software. I want to release a Kindle Single just so I can impress strangers by calling myself an author so I need all the practice I can get.
• Move my legs in a high tempo fashion. I have $90 running shoes, a big treadmill and a FitBit so there’s really nothing else I need.
• Become less bitter about being crushed by a professional athlete. LeBron James broke my heart but 2012 is the year I learn to love again. I’m looking at you, Kyrie Irving. This does not mean I will avoid reading The Whore of Akron though.
• Read more history books. There once was a time when I would read over a dozen history books a year. I feel like one book a month is a nice average that falls somewhere between unthinkable to high school dropouts and pathetic to librarians and I’d like to get back to that spot this year.

There you go. Some of it is obviously a bit tongue in cheek; except the part about the zombie apocalypse which I couldn’t be more serious about.