How bad is it that the most exciting thing that’s happened in my life this week is the announcement of the iPhone?

Sometimes I wonder if I’m having a mid-life crisis. Is 36 (almost 37) years old too young to have a mid-life crisis? Is this as good as it gets, getting up and going to work and doing the same thing every day? When I think about the possibility that we’re never going to be matched for an adoption and that I’ll probably be childless for the rest of my life, I really worry about what happens next. Well, maybe “worry” isn’t the right word so much as “dread.” What is there to look forward to?

I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions, because like most people I don’t ever stick to them. So I guess I feel like I’m being more honest about it up-front by just not making them in the first place. But one of the changes that I want to make this year has to do with this blog: I either want to start writing a lot more, or just get rid of it. It’s definitely kind of pointless as-is, with sporadic posts about whatever happens to be interesting to me at the time. I’ve noticed that I’m especially bad about starting what should be a series of posts and then losing steam shortly after completing the first one. It’s also been almost exclusively technical in nature, and while I don’t want for it to turn into a cat blog I do intend to start writing more about what’s going on (or what isn’t) in real life.

The other change that I’d like to make this year is that, like everyone, I’d like to get in better physical shape. I don’t mean lose weight so much as start exercising more and eating more healthy. But that’s probably not going to happen. I think I will settle for “not getting any worse.”

Sorry for ending on a down note, but I’ve been sick for a couple of weeks now with a cough that won’t quite go away, and so that’s got me a little more discouraged than usual. Maybe I’ll have something more upbeat to tell after this weekend.