January. Cold But Invigorating.

On New Year’s Eve, the resident teenager turned to me and said, “Are you ever glad to see some years go?”

Granted, this is the sort of question one should expect from a resident teenager. And yet, some years really do not inspire tears of nostalgia. I have a feeling that for me, 2011 will turn out to be one of them. I hasten to say that everyone at Archaeologist Central sailed through 2011 just fine, with some laughs, even. But the feeling at the end of the year was … OK, there ya go. No sniffles here. Off to something new! Bring it on, 2012!

In the spirit of New Shiny Stuff, I’ve decided to move the Links to Wednesdays. Blogging can become an awful stuck-in-the-mud thing if one doesn’t watch it, and it feels like a shakeup is just the ticket, even a minor one like moving the Links around. Full disclosure: I was thinking of canning the Links altogether in favor of quick individual posts. But I do rather like lists. So in a triumph of indecision that we’ll all agree to call diplomacy, I’ll do a combination — shorter Links, plus quick takes.

Blogging during the last three months of 2011 was light due to real-time, off-line genealogical endeavors. I learned a lot, and got a lot of food for thought, and some future posts about new ways I see my own family research.

So … Happy New Year, everybody. Now, back to work.

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