I am making concrete steps to bring myself back to life.

First of all, I have begun a massive cleaning project. I've been giving old toys to neighbors' kids and putting them on E-Bay. I've stocked the county recycle center with a ton of paper that I've cleaned off my desk and bookshelves. I'm organizing the few old rock n' roll magazines I want to keep, and am either going to put the rest on E-Bay or in the recycle bin. Old floppy discs are being tossed out, and a zip drive and old CD-ROMs are either going on E-Bay or to the recycle center, too. Goodwill can look forward to a raft of clothes.

Next, I finally got my Roth IRA opened. Sometime Saturday, the next day I have off, I'm going to select the fund to put it in, probably one of those 2033 funds.

And finally, I'm on the verge of putting down the money to begin working on a Web Design certificate. That's the only aspect of the computer world I can actually imagine myself focusing on and getting excited about, so maybe that's the thing for me. I've gone as far as to write to the school officials about foregoing one of the prerequisites that sounded too basic for me, and they said I could skip it, so it feels like I'm really going to do this.

Over the last nine years I've gone from being dynamic and on-the-go to stagnancy. It's time for a change.