{"id":3276,"date":"2003-01-02T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2003-01-02T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2003-01-02T16:49:52","slug":"thursday_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/02\/thursday_4.html","title":{"rendered":"Thursday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here&#8217;s the <a title=\"The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler: New Yearth Thursday\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/thursday\/archives\/003377.html#003377\">Thumb-Twiddler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>1. New Years resolutions: worthwhile modifier of personal behavior, or fruitless way to set yourself up for failure?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I suppose there is value in it.  After all, we tend to let days slip into weeks slip into months.  Having a regularly scheduled event (other than Lent) to consider our shortcomings and resolve to do something concrete about them &#8212; even if we fail &#8212; is useful. <\/p>\n<p><b>2. What should you have resolved for the New Year? Not what you did resolve, mind you, but what should you have resolved?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I resolved to lose weight.  I should have resolved to exercise.<\/p>\n<p><b>3. You&#8217;re suddenly able to send a brief message back to yourself on 1 January 2002. What would you say?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Order your Christmas cards earlier.  Back up your hard drive.  Don&#8217;t bite off more than you can choose.  All will be well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here&#8217;s the Thumb-Twiddler&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5036,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/12\/end_of_an_era_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":3276,"position":0},"title":"End of an Era","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Nov-03 9:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've pulled the plug on my Thursday Thumb-Twiddler meme. 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