Since it's the new year time for some resolutions. This year they are more or less goals for me.

1. Declutter my life

Right now I have a lot of what I call junk that is taking up space. I would consider myself a pack rat of a sorts. I have Transformers that I don't want anymore. There is a variety of old toys that I don't want. I am working on a plan to systematically get rid of the unwanted items. This is my number one goal this year. This also includes a variety of random other crap I have laying around the house.

I am already identifying what I can sell and make money on and what is useless and can either be thrown out or donated to a charity.

2. Focus on my career

This is really basically investing in myself to find a better job and leveraging the information I currently know about the IT field. The major part of this is getting my A+ Certification soon. What I mean by soon I am talking in the exam in about three months...

So my Christmas went pretty well I got some small things from my family and the biggest thing I got was about $400 in cash. I was asked what I want from my family and I told them cash. What I really wanted was to have them pay for the A+ certification test I am going to take next year. Knowing my parents they would have gotten the wrong ticket for me to take test, so cash works better for me.

Everyone enjoyed the gifts they received. It was a pretty laid back Christmas since we didn't get around to opening gifts till about noon. Instead of turkey for dinner we had ham. It was really good. I spent the rest of the day playing The Beatles Rock Band. I was mostly working on achievements in the game. I capped Christmas off with the movie for the season, Die Hard.

Yesterday I meet up with some friends to see Sherlock Holmes. Throughout the whole movie I felt board and pretty much knew how it was going to play out at the end. I think my issue with it was that is they...