Vinnie's Journal

Twenty Eleven is now over and we are now diving headfirst in to twenty twelve. The following is my list of goals for this year.

• Make a (decent) profit from Blueberry Arts (including oh-no)
• Try to do a water color and or oil painting every month for the “Painting of the Month”
• Be more social with my fans on social networking.
• Reboot (but not rebrand) Whiskey Falls in color on it’s own site again and run on Sherpa through the end of the year.
• Put the first four years of OH-NO back online.
• Blog more.
• Eat better and exercise (or at least give it a good try)
• Keep in better touch with friends.
• Catch up on drawing Whiskey Falls and release a book sometime this year.
• Create a new OH-NO Book in color collecting the first two books.
• Enter the Cartoonist Studio contest this year (don’t miss out like you did last year)
• Be the best daddy I can to my little girl.
• Focus more on black and white photography.
  • Get a dedicated film scanner, chemistry and an HD monitor from the sale of your old unused scanner and old laptop.
• Sell something on ebay weekly (if not more) and put money into the BBA Fund.
• Make a two minute animated pilot for Whiskey Falls.
• Start a podcast (walters podcast of doom and my own review show) (Get a new mic and mixer for this)
• Actually do the AOM 30 day challenge this year (c’mon it will be fun)
• Find a better paying day job, possibly in the field of Art
• Take classes on InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop so I can be proficient in them
• Give Lorin sometime to breath away from the baby
• Take time to enjoy the world around you.
• Finally go through that crate of magazines I don’t read and reduce the clutter in all parts of my life.
• Get some mud on the tires of the ol Jeep.
• Hide and Seek some Geocaches.
• Introduce Lottie to nature, camping and hiking.
• Make Lorin and Lottie feel special.
• Make sure Rosemary feels thanked for everything she has done for us.
• Call my mother (and possibly send a postcard every once in a while)
• Drastically reduce my debt and put away some money to save for a home.
• Look back on this list at the end of the year and see how well I did.

So that’s my list of goals. It was mostly written as it spilled from my brain. I may add to it, but I will not subtract. It will be interesting to see what was accomplished and what was not. Wish me luck.