At the time of this writing, it’s the night of New Years Day, January 1, 2009. One of my goals (I don’t make resolutions since they’re only made to be broken and goals seem to be more permanent) for the year, is to lose a significant amount of weight. In order to do so, I’ve been doing some early morning walking around my neighborhood for the last couple of months. While I do so, I listen to music from my MP3 player and run into other people walking around in my neighborhood. In fact, the latest people were a couple of women wearing women’s leather jackets walking their dogs. One of them was a huge doberman, who was a bit too excitable and almost knocked me down.