Good news to end the year for me:

• I’ve finally got a vacation away from Birmingham coming up.  First time in a year that I’ve got more than a day trip to look forward to.
• Credit card debt: finally gone.  It took long enough.
• It looks like a song I wrote and recorded about 13 or 14 years ago — “theme for an imaginary revenge” — will be appearing in Chance Shirley’s Interplanetary.  I am honored and flattered.
• And once again putting the ‘free’ in ‘freelance’ (which, admittedly, is better than putting the ‘STD’ in ‘stud’); see the year-in-preview issue of Birmingham Weekly, hitting stands in about three weeks.
• All that was lost this year is regained, at least to the extent of regain that I needed.