I'm back in Northfield, albeit stumbling and staggering a bit.
While my 2-week break was just the thing I needed to recharge my batteries for the next several months, it seems like long ago. While I was driving back a couple days ago, I found an opportunity to learn a few things the hard way:
1.) When the road gets icy, shift into 4-wheel drive and slow down, even more than you think you need do do. Even if it means going 30 mph (and not 50) on the interstate.
2.) When the tow truck guy tells you to get your vehicle off the road, do it immediately.
3.) When the tow truck guy tells you to get off the road and check into a motel for the night, do that. (Oh wait, I learned that the easy way. By this point I wasn't going to screw around anymore.)
I hate winter.
On the sunny side, I showed my friend how to tune a piano, and I got some more of my improvisations recorded (both while I was still in Chicago). I also got to go to my first NFL game and my first playoff game (Vikings vs. Eagles), and I finally got around to taking care of some work for AmeriCorps that I hadn't been able to get to earlier.
New Years' resolutions? Get older and wiser. Life resolutions? See the previous lists of said resolutions.