2012, here we come.... (#23)

Given that the can has now been kicked further down the road than I can be bothered to gaze, (right into the kind of distant mirage one habitually witnesses when traversing Florida's 'Aligator Alley'), I shall signal a break from this series of posts, by quoting the last sentence of Michael Lewis's Boomerang:

"As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off."

420 days, 16 hours and 53 minutes to Bak'tun 13.