New Year's Resolutions

Dear Father Time,

Thanks for ringing in a new year! Will 2007 be a year of fortune or a year of disappointment? The tradition of making New Year's Resolutions does tend to start you off on a path to broken promises. Does anyone really ever keep them? I have only kept one in my whole life, and I actually broke it early last month. Though I do think that 10 years was a pretty good run. (Don't ask 'cause I'm not telling.) Since I've addressed this to Father Time, then perhaps I've already sealed my fate by simply believing in it. Or maybe not but for now, it's too soon to tell.

On New Year's Eve, we went around the room to share confessions or resolutions since we were all in the spirit of good cheer. The usual resolutions were represented, and my sister even got roped into a $50 bet over french fries. Mine, in my quest not to commit to anything, were to "get hot" and may or may not quit smoking. Incidentally, someone said I was already hot to which I responded "get hotter." Thanks for that by the way. If your friends can't lie to you, then I don't know who can. ;-)

Anyway, while driving home this afternoon I couldn't quit thinking. I'm free from responsibility or emotional attachment for the first time in my life. I can do anything, go anywhere, the possibilities are endless. I just have to figure out my next move. That, of course, is the problem. I have no clue what I want to do!

So tonight, I thought I do some research on what exactly the word "resolution" means. Wikipedia.com offered "resolution rule," a mathematical concept I was, of course, unfamiliar with:

"the resolution rule in propositional logic is a single valid inference rule producing, from two clauses, a new clause implied by them. The resolution rule takes two clauses - a clause is a disjunction of literals - containing complementary literals, and produces a new clause with all the literals of both except for the complementary ones."