- Make sure Nora and E are healthy and happy
- Continue my return to making music, as I have been the last few months
- Continue to improve at fencing (and, to that end, improve my strength and endurance via workouts)
- More track or autocross than in 2008
- Bring the family budget under control and plan for the next couple of years and long term (college fund!)
- Keep learning at work and help make my company a huge success
- Somehow find time for my own stuff, for E and our joint projects, for travel, for Nora, and for all our friends and still sleep, eat, and work

- Boxy McBoxerson
- Rammy McBatteringham
- Rooty Turtle
- Meowy O'Malley
- Grippy McClaws
- Grippy McHanderson
- Squirmy Handsenjammer
- Squirmy McGee
- Handy McGee
- Rooty McGee
- Snoozy McGee
- Chesty Leroux
- Snoozy Magoo
- Sleepy Magoo
- Snoozy Magooze
- The Peemaster General
- Rooty Tooty Fresh n Fruity
- Wiggly Wigglerson
- Hands Christian Handersen
- Squeaky Mcgee
- The Handersons (who often visit at inopportune times)

guess which ones refer to cats and which ones to people! you might be surprised!