As I randomly ran a Spotlight search for the word “Playboy” on my computer (for the articles! for the articles!) I stumbled upon an old email I wrote on January 2nd, 2003 to a friend. Today I’m publishing the email. Only the recipient’s name was changed in order to spare her from the embarrassment of being mentioned here:

Dear Petronila:

As the end of yet another year rapidly approaches, one cannot help but to stop and look back at past experiences and accomplishments. Last year I did not make any new year’s resolutions, hence today I’m not a better person that I was last year (yes, there is still some room for improvement). This year will be different. I have carefully thought out 10 New Year’s Resolutions that I intend to stick to. I want to share them with you. As you will see, the bar is not too high so there is some chance for this to actually happen. I know you’re not a very good reader so I typed this very slowly so you can keep up.

My Ten New Year’s Resolutions for 2003

• 10. Learn what an exhaust manifold is.
• 9. Shave, get my baby face back.
• 8. Stop using fake names.
• 7. Get a joke published on Playboy, earn a hunded bucks (they have jokes, they pay $100 – you need to read the articles to know).
• 6. Learn Spanish.
• 5. Do my laundry less often (note to self: buy more underwear)
• 4. Get in shape (which shape is of no concern)
• 3. Lose hair
• 2. Gain weight
• 1. Learn to count. Be a different kind of people.

Happy New Year
Edson Arantes Do Nascimento

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There are 3 kinds of people –

– Those who can count, and those who can’t.

Marcos Kirsch

http://Marcos.Kirsch.mx

So how did I do? I did allright, as you can see in the following color-coded score card:

• 10. Still no idea
• 9. Twice
• 8. Yes
• 7. No
• 6. Sí
• 5. Yes. Learned to turn them inside-out as well.
• 4. Yes
• 3. Yes
• 2. No
• What goes before 2?

Since I can’t count very well, a friend told me that I scored like 50%! That’s pretty good, about half or even more. Very impressive.

Happy 2009.