My New Year’s Resolution…..which one?

1) Make sure everybody understands that the word “deaf” is a better word to use than “Deaf” to describe people with hearing loss.

2) Go after every anti-deficit thinkers and hopefully they’ll buy my special coffee cup collection.

3) Make sure parents of deaf babies seriously think about cochlear implants and cued speech.

4) Do more vlogging using my voice instead of blogging because it’s easier and the right thing to do.

5) Do less deaf-related blog topics and more on non-deaf related blog topics because doing non-deaf topics are much more cerebral, enlightening and fun to do.

6) Put a deaf cat on a 400 watts stereo speaker and crank up the bass just to see what happens. How about a deaf hamster?

7) Force closeted militant deaf people out into the open for their radical ideas (note the lower “d”).

8) Book more rooms at the Marriott hotel for my business trips in 2008.

9) Fudge my Sitemeter on the number of hits until I reach 2 million like this guy?

10) Make sure everybody gets a free UbiDuo communication device and help get rid of expensive ASL interpreters everywhere.

11) Make a 2007 “Best and Worst comments” blog piece like I did earlier this year.

12) Open up my Haloscan comment and allow all kinds of foul language, idiotic comments, personal attacks and so on without any moderation control whatsoever.

13) Donate some of my money to AGBell for a worthy cause.

14) Reach a word discrimination goal of 98% because my current 95% isn’t so hot.

15) Buy a new cell phone with more bells and whistles.

16) Help end the cruelty of seeing deaf dogs and cats by getting them implanted.

17) Help re-establish a Cued Speech Center on the campus of Gallaudet University.

18) Help put together the first ever oral club at Gallaudet University.

19) Buy a digital hearing aid that comes with artificial intelligence software enabling me to hear people thoughts.

20) Form a “Paotie and Kokonut” coalition for critical thinkers only to join.


Now, overall I haven’t thought of what I really wanted to do in 2008. Usually I just wing it and see how it goes as each day goes by, week by week, and month by month based on inspirations and ideas that come to me. Although, I do have a few goals in mind but I ain’t gonna say what those are. Yet I welcome each New Year looking forward to learn and do more things as I have always done in the past. And I hope people don’t take things too seriously in 2008 like they did in 2007 that hinges on conspiratorial reactions and paranoia. It was simply an ugly thing to watch is all I can say. Unity it wasn’t.

Here’s to 2008. Happy New Year!