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Time to say goodbye to 2025 and hello to 2026. I know, everyone in the world makes a similar post at the New Year.

I finally made some awesome progress on my goals to run/jog/walk all of the Aurora, CO Trails.

And finally I made good progress on my other fitness goals this year. My Garmin tells the story:

My work travels took me far and wide across the country this year. The pins on the map below tell the story.

This afternoon I started my New Year’s Eve technology routine that I have been following for 20+ years:

1. Clean out all of my inboxes and file all messages in the appropriate 2025 folders.
2. Move all of my sent mail out of all the account’s sent mail boxes into my 2025 sent mail folder.
3. Move all of my documents and downloads into my Documents_2025-Dec-31 and Downloads_2025-Dec-31 folders.
4. Make sure my work logs and expense reports are all completed.
5. Create my 2026 IMAP folder on the server with my basic sub-folders.
6. Re-point all of my scripts to the appropriate folders in the 2026 files.
7. Make sure phones and all devices are up to date.
8. Do my online postings saying Happy New Year and goodbye to 2025.

Then, I sit back, relax, do anything I forgot about. And make sure my dogs don’t get scared to death from the fireworks.

So, what is next for 2026? I have a few goals, I hate the word “resolutions”, I can share some of them here:

1. I need to get back into swimming shape. I finally got back into the pool a few months back and I can barely do 1,000 yards. This is from the guy that 3 years ago could do 5 and 10K open water swims.
2. Need to loose 20 pounds. This may have something to do with the above problem.
3. I want to do some hiking this year. I live in Colorado, there is so much I haven’t seen or done.
4. I want to do at least one of the lake series swim events. Not sure which one yet.
5. See where work takes me this year, but I need to attempt to maintain a work/life balance. Let’s see if I can make some progress on that.
6. Try to get back into my glass sandblasting work. I think I am also going to invest in a CNC router/laster this year.
7. I need to finally release my 52 weeks of HVAC that I have promised myself I would do for YouTube every year but never get around to it.

I will probably not set many fitness goals for 2026 other than the swimming and the mountain lake series. I have had some health issues and have decided that I do not want to push myself too much. I want to be able to adjust based on how I feel.

Anyways, Happy New Years everyone!