Nobody can really predict their future—and as they say—if you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans. Yet, these are how I see the next three years of my life shaping up, and how I will work to make our land a better place to live for all Americans. I may face some tough fights against those who want to oppress the free life, but no city slicker is ever going to tell me how to run my life.

Winter 2006

Once the elections are over, and we now have a strong progressive majority across our country. Yet, there are still many battles that need to be waged. We need to keep our leaders accountable on Iraq and at home.

It will also be a time to step back and enjoy the winter for one. Hopefully we will have snow so I can go cross country skiing, not to mention snowmobiling with friends. The Christmas season is always such a joyous session for all to enjoy.

Spring 2007

The Assembly legislative internship program at the Capitol. I'm really looking forward to this as it's been a long time since I've been able to spend some serious time in the halls of power. Albany is so much fun, and it will give me the higher level credits I finally need to graduate. I'm hoping to transfer the skills I get out of this internship into a job with the legislature, and use that money to save up for my trip out west.

Summer 2007

Work, work, work. Camp. Finally get out on my own, getting an apartment probably not too far from downtown, so I can save my pickup for play on the weekends. I'm not sure if I'll entirely enjoy living in the city, but that is where most people live, so it seems that would be best for me. Not sure if I want to entirely live in Albany with all of it's political problems, but there are many other growing towns and cities around that offer urban life and cheap apartments without the Albany machine.

Most likely I'll do more travel this summer, along with additional party work. I really want to see Western New York and the fingerlakes. Maybe even think about taking some night classes or training to expand my skills and thinking into other areas like computer aided drawing or rural/farm living.

Fall 2007

Continue working, continue saving. I figure my truck will still be good for a while now and pretty reliable to boot assuming I maintain it well and don't do anything stupid with it like break the transfer case or run it into a tree. The fall 2007 in many ways will be a continuation of the previous summer, and I expect it to be pretty slow off-year in elections. Hopefully purchase a winch for my truck so I don't get stuck so often off-roading. Things get vauger here, but I want to save for my dream trip.

Winter/Spring 2008

Presidential election year. I'm going to get involved in the New Hampshire Primary or Iowa Caucus, behind a candidate that best respresents my progessive views of the world. I want to explore life behind the borders of New York, I want to challenge myself to new heights. This will either lead up to or be part of my summer 2008 plans to go out west.

Summer/Fall 2008

Go out west in my pickup truck, and do some exploring of places I've never been. I want to seee what it's like to sleep out in the desert, see some big sky country, how life is different in places beyond New England, Pennsylvania, and New York State. I'm not particularly interested in seeing big cities, as much as I want to see the countryside. I want to avoid major interstates as much as possible.

I want to broaden my possibilities and see what I can do, and how I can change the world to be better place. I think there is a lot to be learned by exploring the countryside, and after going out west and rambling around for a while (with my cowboy hat on), I think I will be a better individual.

Winter/Summer 2009

Return back to Albany and continue to work assuming a better opporunity doesn't come otherwheres. Continue to live minimally and saving money as much as possible to help purchase my farm and other toys. Continue working on activism and the causes that are most important during that day.

Beyond Three Years

There is far more life to live after these three years are up. Yet I'm not ready to plan it all out. I want to spend more time writing, more time exploring, and more time finding myself as an individual. I also want to save money up to buy a farm where I can live, raise some cattle and other animals, and have a family. In many ways, I do not know how I will reach all those goals, but I will as I struggle for greatness. I can do it, only if I imagine.

Will I go professionally into politics? For now the answer is yes, as government is my area of knowledge and my passion. Yet, I certainly do not want be trapped in government for a life time, and help everybody besies myself. My true goal is nothing short of self liberation, living only with the limits of the physical world and not that of limits drawn up in some fake-wood room in the Legislative Office Building.

More on my ideals and how I plan to get it is in an fodder called Cows or Politics: Getting at My Dreams. See also Andy: Under the Big Cowboy Hat.