Resolutions and Reasons

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“What’s your resolution?” she asked.

“To not make any stupid resolutions I’m going to break in a week,” I answered. Everyone at the party agreed it was the best resolution anyone there had offered.

That was moments into 2004; seven years later, I offered the same reply to the same question, because it’s pretty much the correct one. (This is not unlike how I tend to answer questions that start with “Why” which I don’t want to answer with “Reasons.”)

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Call and Lack of Response

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My iPhone rang this afternoon.

To most people, this would probably not be a spectacular development, but I’m in that growing portion of the population who uses my phone for virtually everything but talking. If I had to list the things for which I use my phone the most, it would probably look like this: Continue reading