As is the tradition on years with a zero at the end, I’m taking this opportunity to look back over the last ten years.
It’s strange really – in some ways, the turn into 2000 seems like only yesterday, in others you count back and realise just how much has actually happened in that decade…
Ten years ago, I was up in Manchester, in a very different relationship, working on a contract at the Equal Opportunities Commission, living in a rented house in a grim bit of East Manchester, and beginning to realise I was nearly 30. (And as an aside, that must mean I’m heading towards 40 now. Fuck.) D4D™ didn’t exist, wasn’t even a glint in the eye.
In the last ten years I’ve
- made friends
- lost friends
- written a shocking amount of rubbish here
- changed relationships (including a couple of very quiet intervening years)
- moved four times (New place in Manchester, Bracknell, Attleborough, Here)
- bought a house with Herself
- had more jobs and contracts than I care to think about
- seen the world change in many ways – not least through the impact of terrorism
- Closed a business
- Opened a new business
- Been utterly stuffed by a fuckstick accountant
- Inherited insane animals
- moved on
- stayed the same
I wonder what the next ten will bring? Lots more changes, I suspect.
Back at the start of 2009, I started a plan to get at least one piece of writing out the way and completed in 2009.
That plan failed spectacularly. In fact pretty much everything around my writing ideas failed spectacularly in 2009.
So I’m going to do the same for 2010.
All I actually want is to get one piece written from start to finish, get it done and ready for whatever comes next. If I can get more stuff done then even better. But just one piece, that’s all that’s being targetted right now.
OK, 2010, let’s see what you’ve got in store for me.
I’m pretty much ready for you, I think.
And 2009, you can go fuck off.
