Onwards!

I'm still crossing out the "25" and rewriting it as "26" on checks, but aside from that, the new year is off to an uneventful start (not that I'm complaining). I have a new hobby: cleaning and dressing the site on my lower stomach where the peritoneal dialysis catheter and tube were placed. 

This coming week, I hope to learn how to use the machine that, combined with the dextrose solution, will fill, dwell, and drain my kidneys. I have already learned that the object is to drain more out than I put in. The better I get at all of this, the longer I will live, and that's a deal too good to pass up. 

And you? Without being too nosy, did you make resolutions? And have you already broken one or more of them? I don't think the Guinness World Records people keep track, so you can safely claim whatever you wish and however you will. Of course, escaping your own judgment will be harder to do since you know best your own tricks and traps.

I have hopes for 2026-not resolutions. I hope this year to be a better person to people I've known already in my life and to whom I have been less than kind (unless they're a$$holes, in which case, no deal). I'll also hope to not allow the past to color the future and accept I cannot be forgiven for sins I've not yet committed (and the same is true for everyone else).

It's a new year, and I appreciate having lived to see its dawn. We can go anywhere and do anything. We just have to decide and then agree on what anything will look like. Let's go.
-bill kenny