Resolution, re solution, re-solution…

….anyway. I intend this year to a) start making some serious money, and b) stop wasting so much time on the interwebs and Soduku.
The money-making part involves mainly getting the AstroDiary completed and selling. Plus getting my act together and improving my astrology services; I bought a comb-binding machine on Saturday which should help to improve the appearance of my reports.
Cutting down on the online timewasting may be more difficult – there’s so much interesting reading out there. For instance, one of my favourite blogs currently has a post that is garnering close to 500 comments, forming an informative and hugely interesting ongoing discussion on politics, religion, fantasy/science fiction and slashfic. (For those new to Slacktavist, he is an American Christian journalist who devotes part of his blog to a detailed deconstruction of the Left Behind books, which are hugely popular amongst US fundivangelicals; some of the regular Slacktavist commentors have even formed their own Left Behind fanfic/slashfic community.) I spend hours a week on that, and other blogs, and on forums. That has to be cut down!
Something else I need to cut down on is the time I spend on Sodoku puzzles. I’ve got the stage where I can solve Evil Level Sodoku puzzles in one sitting; I’m now tackling Killer Sodoku. What’s irritating me about my Sodoku addiction is that it’s not achieving anything concrete beyond an ability to solve Sodoku puzzles (and boast about it online!). It’s like going to the gym and working out every day, when you could be putting all that physical energy to some practical use – like digging the garden, or powering a generator. Where is there a practical application of of all that mental effort and puzzle-solving ability? I’ve looked at Amazon Mechanical Turk and similar sites, but nobody seems to be offering payment for simple number-puzzle-solving. Maybe I should get down to writing that Sodoku tips & tricks book I’ve been thinking about for a while.