What A Difference Three Years Makes

Remember this?



I shot this video on New Year's Eve 2008. As you can see, despite my denial in the video, I'm quite drunk and just about to open another bottle of champagne. I'm in my little matchbox house in Lake Mary and I'm about 40 pounds heavier than now.

Though I spoke in the video about my hopes for health and prosperity in the coming year of 2009, as we know, it was not to be. I delved deeper into the abyss, or, to stick with an analogy I referenced in this clip, I went farther through the event horizon.

But things are good now, or at least much better. They're still far from perfect, but I'm not shooting for that. I learned long ago to stop battling windmills.

I do have high hopes that this new year will be as good and hopefully even better than this past one. I sit at my laptop, at my comfortable and stress-free job, sober and looking at this new "event horizon" with logical optimism.

Wishing you all a great new year as well!