What do most people do when the new year arrives? Mainly, three things: waste January 1 recovering from a hangover; the polar bear swim; or make new year’s resolutions. There are other options as well, such as sleeping in and watching television all day (which is more or less what I did). As far as resolutions go, I don’t make resolutions. Generally, resolutions are meant to be kept and I don’t like to make a resolution that I will have a hard time keeping. So instead of calling them resolutions, I call them things that would be good to do in the new year. That way, if I don’t accomplish them, then I don’t feel guilty. This year, a thing that would be good to do in the new year is to take more pictures. When I got my first digital camera, that was my plan, to take more pictures. Prior to that, I never took pictures. So by spending a few hundred bucks to buy a digital camera, it forced me to use it a lot and take a lot of pictures. I enjoyed it but after a while, I began to take less and less pictures, to the point now that I don’t take my camera with me anymore because there’s undoubtedly there’s always someone else that has a camera so pictures will be captured and saved somehow. However, I want to start taking more pictures now. I’ve ordered a new camera (a Canon Powershot SD870 IS) so once that arrives, I’ll be taking more pictures again. I also plan on upgrading my Flickr account so hopefully by this time next year, I’ll have much more pictures and memories of 2008.