What use am I to make of this document?

The end is in the beginning.  A solid performance.  A worthy finish to the file.  Some superb duck nachos and Chablis in the usual, rowdy, back corner table.  Hiccups and their remedy.  Random wanderings.  Lottie's, Guinness, and then a rest and a hungover hike.  All the while wondering what things might have been like, and safe in the comfort of knowing that they turned out as we knew they must.  Now for the panel to confirm, in (hopefully non-appealable) words of their own choosing.  Thanks for the experience and the memories.

Where the tales go from here, who can say?  But the year has begun with a bang that has served to set the stage well for an escape to la France in June.  Sailing to come in advance, as well as yoga and the cleaning of body and apartment first.  First up, in my mind I'm going to Carolina, and a family weekend with the young and restless.  And some file work to be sorted before the exodus.  That all looking very much in order.

Some time, then, on the road, to reconsider the path.  RR continuing to inspire in the background, and the undercurrent of the journal and the Tancook dreams a subtle and constant reminder of the possibility of life beyond these walls.  The way you might make that happen.  What it might look like.  How Antarctica and the rest of the south might be won.  The proper timing of that and other blessed things.

The taxes have been filed and received, and the unexpected WIP boom has set things up for future RRSP years.  Which will suffice for 65, but the key will be to consider how to extract more from less in the interim.  Hence enjoyment at the rapid rise of some gold and silver plays.  Hence the doubling down today on old mines and new solar.  No doubt that will lead to some heartache and confusion and recriminations at yourself for being foolish down the road.  As you laugh over it with the guy who put TA into your mind.  Dream a little, I suppose.  What is there to lose but cash and opportunity?

Off now to find another Rioja 2009 vintage for the collection and watch the last of the Good Wife.  Make a little progress on the apartment as well, McMahon.  Slowly slowly.  The clock is ticking on the end of year 37 now.