Un compagnion ideal

It's just after midnight, the usual witching hour.  Since I do not have the journal with me, let's throw the thoughts here.  The pre-2017 manifesto, if you please.

Assuming you are granted the status of the skies until May, I have an idea how to make use of it - for the writing and the running.  Long weekend trips, to tropical destinations.  Working remotely, as a way to enjoy an escape from winter and to ponder the future: fight (stay) or flight (go).

Starting, of course, with Hong Kong, Bali, New Zealand, and Aussie.  The shortness of those visits made true by some long distance training, the music in this device available to guide you through.

The 7 minutes and stairs from Dec 27 onward, to set a tone to be maintained.  205 pounds on the scale at Foxwoods (remember that sunrise?  what a story that proved!) a summary of all your unhealthy behaviours and failures since you stared down that mirror in Edinburgh in three scant numbers.  This path is about seeking out a replacement 1 and 7 if ye can.  There is time for change and need for change and then a point where the status quo itself is wholly untenable.  So, action.

The schedule looks tight, even so.  First weekend back after Bears/Healy/RR is Burns.  Between then and the Brier on March 3, there are 2 windows: Feb 3-5 and 17-20.  Then later in March, the 18-25th week an option.

April 21-24 in LA for the Jays, possibly something squeezed in before then?  The 8-9th?  Then it is Vancouver for Camput, Halifax for the run, and Moncton for the walk, with the boat in between and so a needed rest from the airport at that rate.  By my count a chance for 3-4 destinations, plus NL, LA, and Van.

Options are plentiful - Turks, Trinidad, Bahamas, Jamaica, CR - along with Ottawa and Calgary/Yellowknife for good measure?  That is a big first five months to look forward to - then recline into PEI x2, sailing, camping, Chicago, and into November before you start planning an even-numbered New Year elsewhere?  Have you ever looked out at a year with such clarity?

I like it.  As a way to keep the mind off viewpoint and notch a few more countries off the list.  Time for bed for now.  And to dream up more fun before the untimely chimes of 5am!