:mattLandia:

2006 has blown by with the steady momentum of a freight train. Seems like yesterday that I was posting photos from last Christmas. Strange how time seems to speed up as one gets older. Maybe it's the repetitive nature of adult life, or a learned tolerance of time, making it's passage less noticeable until you see the start of a new year and you pull your inner time clock out of some deep pocket, and wonder if your time is being used wisely.

Zoe and I spent the last week of 2006 making a trip out to Saratoga Springs, Utah to see family. We spent our time there eating, napping, snowboarding, sledding, shopping, hunting beef jerkey, talking, playing Settlers of Catan and keeping warm. Instead of giving you a travel log, just click through the Flickr stream of photos. Here are some of the thoughts / resolutions that are still rattling around my brain after getting home and preparing for what looks to be a very busy year.

- Spend more time with my family regardless of where they live. I wish I had a way to snap my fingers and have us all be able to live together, on the same block; a new Odom compound; a new Cove Avenue.

- Exercise a bit more than I do now. Which shouldn't be hard considering that I consider keying and mousing exercise. Maybe next time I hit the slopes, I won't feel like I'm about to burp up a lung.

- Learn how to reverse engineer my favorite jerky. Just another step in towards my destiny of becoming the Jerky King and dominating the Jerky universe.

- Flex my art muscles a little more often. Photography, Art, and Music. Use it or lose it, I suppose.

Happy New Year to anyone reading this! I wish all of you the best in health, fortune, love and spirit. Thanks for reading, commenting, and checking out my photos. It really means more to me than you know.

~ Matt ~