Objectives for 2009

Planning for 2009
I took the weekend to really catch up on a lot of things. I worked Saturday but spent it in the office skating. And sunday I opted out of playing Softball to catch up on things. And this is what I came up with: my personal general objective list for 2009.

1. I want to get the Stellar Collisions short story webzine Myth & Starships back under way. I want to put up quarterly issues in March, June, Sept, and December of 2009. Each issue will contain 10 short stories.
2. I want to get the Stellar Collisions wargaming webzine War Fantastic as a triannual with issues up in April, August, and December of 2009.
3. I need to try and get another college semester out of the way for my Math degree in June and July of 2009.
4. I am needing to move most of my household back to an apartment in State College to line up for future school plans.
5. I really need to practice my conversational Japanese with Chris so I can try and get some what competent so when we go to Japan for her degree and work.
6. I have a stack of moderate level debts I would like to pay off. We still have several major debts but I want to get all the four digit ones paid off just to get them off my back long term.
7. I'm trying to set up employment for both Chris and myself for the Summer 2009-2010 season here at McMurdo Station so we can come down together.
8.I have long though about taking Ken Burnside up on his suggestion that he was still looking for authors for his 10 Worlds setting for Ad Astra Games. I might submit a novel manuscript proposal to him early next year.
9. I want to complete Part one of Staff of Empery. The final novel manuscript is going to be something like 750 pages so there is no way I wil finish it next year since I started a complete rewrite a year ago. But I might get Part one of three done.
10. I am trying to finish my design document for Unwelcome Neighbors: Artisans of War. This online based grand strategy game has been reworked so many times over the past 7 years that I'm trying to nail it to the floor on concepts.
11. I want to complete Exiles' Odyssey. This is the first Unwelcome Neighbors graphic novel. I still need to work with Raina, our main artist to work out concepts of design.
12. I have a good part of the IDB novel, Demon & the Dancer completed. I need to do a final draft next year.
13. I want to get my son Zachery more time on horses and spend more time teaching him robotics and archery.
14. I want to get the family both basic and advance diving certifications.
15. I need to help Chris complete some of her computer certifications for her career.
16. I want to set up decent training programs for 2009 for Kuntae, Pekit Tersi, Pakua chang, ju jitsu, and maybe iajitsu if I can work all those end. I have full intentions of getting some training in on all those through the year, but I'm unsure of where the balance will be yet.
17. I want to spend more time horseback riding and doing some personal study on equine training. Eventually I aleast want to get an associates in equine science.
18. I need to finish a half a dozen home improvement projects for the house.
19. And I want to find the resources to fix back up our old Pontaic that blew it's engine again.
20. I need to look at how I'm going to develop UwN: Artisans of War in it's core algorthims. Objective 10 is to complete the design documents and conceptualization. This objective is to instead try and get the algorthims worked out for all the conflict, economic, and strategic factors.
21. I want to go back over my Haiku collection and see about rewriting them now that I have had a few more years to contemplate the art form.
22. I really should look at digging back out my epic poem Ddraig-Jotan war and see about rewriting it and furthering the work.

Well that is my personal objectives for 2009. It includes no major career advancement, nor does it include my major family objectives. Those are all pragmatic personal objectives.