Progress feels good.  Not just progress with my sore throat, but progress with work.  The holiday feel is beginning to rub off and I feel better just working.  Maybe the year will just settle down and be a solid, normal working year.  I can deal with that.  I think that I know how to work, although sometimes I start to wonder.  Right now I need to take my alka-seltzer because my throat is starting to hurt, but for the most part it hasn't been too much of a bother today.  Finally, something has actually helped it feel better and I am expecting it to do it one more time.  I worked hard through the day and then when 5pm came I took time off to watch basketball.  The 2 I was really interested in were the 2 BYU games.  The women and the men both won and it was a good few hours.  Then I flashed back and forth with some NBA games trying to see Jimmer play.  He hasn't been brilliant yet, in fact, this new level of play seems to bewilder him some.  But then, that is to be expected.  It happens to all of us when we are put in a new and more challenging situation then we are used to.  New stuff requires some time to adjust.  We all go through it throughout our lives.  I don't see it much at my age, but it still happens.  I like it when it does.  It tends to nourish my perspective.  Learning can never be a bad thing.  I did learn why I am able to see those NBA games.  They keep advertising their 'package' and I wondered if by mistake I was getting it.  But, no.  Just a free preview that ends after Sunday.  No more Jimmer.  Oh well.  I don't have that kind of interest anymore.  (I don't have that kind of energy anymore, either.)  Besides, there is enough ball on tv for me, and BYU is the only one that I really want to watch.  My 1st week of 2012 is near over.  Already the speed of life continues.  I hope I haven't messed the new year up too badly yet.  There seems to be lots and lots ahead.  I finally understand that there is just too much for me to do.  I have to choose what to do and what to leave.  I can only do what I can do.  I intend to try and become a better decision maker.  Narrow the focus.  That is the plan.  Limit the options.  I need to decide what it is that I want to be when I grow up and eliminate most of it.  Time just doesn't allow for everything.