Now that I've settled a bit in my new digs and with the Patriots freeing up my Sundays for the rest of the year, it's time to get back on the ol' schedule and get on with the New Year. Again, the resolutions are positivity, productivity, and focus. Focus being the key. Too often I get focused on silly things and let them get to me (and that usually means posts filled with negativity that eat up too much time and kill my overall productivity.) Because of that, I'm adding a resolution to try to post about Sarah Palin and LeBron James as little as possible this year. Neither add much to my life besides being roots of frustration and fodder for rants and I can do without that. Similarly, the cable news channels are off my grid. Who needs them?

I'm also going to do something I meant to do ten years ago and that's keep a running tab of what I think the best movies of the decade are. It'll be over to the right, under the Best of the Year list. Obviously, time will shade some of my picks (as it already has) so the list will always be changing but I think it will be interesting to keep the running count rather than just looking back in ten years and trying to remember how a certain movie moved you or try to rank the films at one time. For now, I'm going with ten films since I feel like after #10, the films get to be good but not very good, let alone great.

So here's to a fresh start; the haze of the new home and new year are over; time to get crackin'!