Rounding up 2007, ready for '08.

2007 has been an oddball year for me. I've given myself a long-needed break to the Atari side of things to focus on a business startup, only to come back full swing again and catching up on a lot of things. I asked myself what makes me happy... since, I seem to have been quite unhappy for the past year or so... in which my answer is to create, follow the Atari hobbyist world and dabble in music. (among a few things I have neglected)

I feel like I've accomplished quite a bit at the end of '07, with my little 800XL setup to the point of where I'm pretty happy where it stands aside from the games I need to get and the Touch Tablet I'm (still) waiting on to come in the mail.

I got my Yamaha an200 which I am throughly enjoying at the moment and so far have come up with about 4 tunes I can mess with and hopefully turn into something more.

2007 was an extensive and price costing learning experience for me. While I learned a lot, I feel I wasted too much time in the year for anything useful to materialize and for some reason feel somewhat locked or blindsided by what I was doing? I don't know... but only now do I feel like I can think or... focus properly.

2008 - and beyond....
Looking back at all my ideas I've wanted to create over the past 10 years... and usually falling through due to price or cost concerns appear to be somewhat easier to tackle into the new year. Not because I have more money but because I have a better, more experienced mindset with what exactly I want to accomplish, the problems I've already dealt with in the past... and the people to help me in accomplishing these goals and hopefully for a much brighter year in 2008 overall. I'm speaking not only Atari-related projects here... but many more things I hold dear to my heart in which I hope to materialize.

Anyways, Happy New Years everyone! Here's to 2008!