Final year in review.
Alright, here's my last year in review. I guess this time I'll do 2004 since that seems to be what everyone else is doing.
January - sucked because Rebecca started her new semester of Law School at UM while I was still stuck in Aberdeen.
- Found and abandoned little puppy on the Natchez Trace. Took her home to find her a nice home. We absolutely
were not going to keep her. Now she has become a rather large dog and is lying on our livingroom floor.
January 19 - Ordered iLife 2004 which included GarageBand, the greatest Apple app ever.
January 22, approx. 3 p.m. - Received iLife.
January 23 approx. 3 a.m. - Finished my very first tune in GarageBand.
March - Buy a suit. I hate ties, so, since I'm a grown up, I get a nice suit you don't have to wear a tie with. HA!
March - Interview for what would be a great job editing a magazine in the biology department on campus. Good job.
Good money and would get me on the same side of the state as Rebecca. Don't hear anything for five months.
April - Turn 37. Start watching Stargate SG-1. Pretty good show.
May - Find out my hometown library is looking for a new director. They want someone with a college degree,
someone who's from the Valley and someone who plans to saty for a long, long time. Sounds great to me. I interview.
Among those interviewing me are two former elementary school teachers and a friend of the family who has known me
since I was born. This could be good.
June - Yes! I get the job and I finally get to leave the hell hole I was living in and the crappy job I had at the newspaper.
Move to the Valley and put the house up for sale.
July 1 - Star my new job at the library, henceforth known as the liberry. Awesome job.
July 7 - Finally hear back about the job editing the magazine on campus. Turns out they eliminated the position.
Good to know.
July - At the Mississippi Press Association Better Newspaper Contest Awards ceremony, I received the most awards I had
received in my career, the paper wins the most awards it has ever won and wins the most awards of any weekly paper
in the state. Guess that shows what a terrible job I did as the Managiing Editor.
August - Discover MacJams and MacIdol, homes on the Internet where I can upload my own music and listen to GarageBand
creations from people around the world. It's awesome!
September - Got my iBook. Sweeeeeeeeeeeet! Got wireless Internet. Sweeeeeeeet!
October - Rebecca and I went to a Halloween party dressed as a punk couple. Gave me an excuse to buy a couple
of t-shirts from The Damned.
- Sold the house in Aberdeen thus completely severing ties to a place I had long wanted to leave.
November - Thanksgiving. Nice to be able to just walk up the hill to go to my mom's thanksgiving dinner rather than driving
two hours to get there, two hours to get back, usually late at night and then get up the next morning to go to
the newspaper office and sit around and do nothing for eight hours because everyone else is out shopping and
the company wouldn't let us close the office and stay home that day. Have I mentioned I don't miss my old job.
December - Christmas similar to Thanksgiving.
December 31 - Sit around house drinking and watching Ed Wood movies to ring in the new year.
Doesn't get any better than that.
Hope everyone has a great New Year.
Fine cinema
Everyone must watch Vegas In Space. It is possibly the best Sci-fi, musical, comedy, movie starring an all drag queen cast from a story based on a party ever made.
It is the movie Ed Wood would have made had he lived in the 1990s.
ATTENTION! Read this just before midnight!
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Happy 2005!
Happy 2006!
Happy 2007!
Happy 2148!
Happy Groundhog Day!
Lift Off!
Ready or not, here I come!
Ahhh Chooo!
Jeronimo!
Energize!
Reverse the tachyon flow inverter on the thrusters!
Another year in review
Okay, I haven't gotten the whole "year in review" thing left over from my old newspaper days out of my system yet, so here's another Year in Review.
72,237 BCE
Jan. - Extreme cold over the Northern Hemisphere creates a shortage of sabertooth tiger skins for clothing. Though sabertooth bear, sabertooh woolf and sabertooth rabbit skins are plentiful, Grug, a cleaver neanderthal, uses the primative beginnings of clever marketing to make the sabertooth tiger skin the "in" thing for the year.
Feb. - Medium size asteroid hits somehere in the mid western U.S. No great environmental impact, however, rock contained an alien being in suspended animation which would wreck havock some 74,242 years later when discovered by some guy who likes to dig holes in his backyard.
April-May - Mhruug, a cunning caveman, decides to take control of his clan by convincing them to go to war with neighboring tribes. He profits by selling sticks, rocks and fire to all sides involved. In an ironic turn, his lineage can be traced directly down to Dick Chaney.
Aug. - Glug, the shaman of the nobby hill people, creates a small hollow log that fits in the palm of your hand, along with am elk bone with a small, round rock attached on the end with cured aardvark skin, used to beat on the log rhythmically. He calls it the iRoc and makes a fortune in skins, bone and shiny rocks.
Sept. - The first professional sports team plays its first game. The game, "roll the large boulder down the hill onto the other team," was called after the first half because the Grassy Knoll Clan ran out of cave people. The Flailing Elk Clan won by default. It was the only game on record ever played.
December - The first, and only, fruitcake was created.
Great grilling weather
Beacuse it's New Year's even in Mississippi, that means we're either under ice or it's a great time to put on some shorts and a t-shirt, fire up the grill and break out some cold and frosty beverage. we're doing the latter.
Nothing rings in the New Year like a couple of steaks and some over-roasted potatoes with garlic, rosemary, pepper and olive oil and a nice, overly-expensive "imported" beer.
More for the holiday munchies
Preheat electric stove eye to just above medium or medium on gas stove
Take 1/3 cup unpopped popcorn
4 Tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons canola oil
Mix together in a stovetop popcorn popper (preferable one that has the handle on it where you can stir it while it's popping)
Add at least two tablespoons of your favorite (liquid) flavoring (vanilla, coconut, rum. I used Old Charter.)
Place pot on eye and stir continuously until corn is popped. Pour the popcorn out onto a cookie sheet and allow it to cool.
Then eat.
Yummy.
...and so the world domination begins...
I love stuff like the following.
iPod users making the switch to Mac
December 23 - 21:03 EST Two Wall Street Journal writers received reader responses that support the fact that the iPod "halo effect" is working. "In Monday's column, we predicted that the combination of the iPod's popularity and the increasing worry over viruses, security holes and spyware in Windows PCs will lead to the second coming of Apple as a home-computing power," write Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry. "To say that struck a chord would be putting it mildly. Boy, did we ever get mail--including a significant number of people who said that the iPod, Windows security concerns or a combination of the two had made them switch to a Mac or plan to do so."
An exciting new discovery
Okay, maybe not earth shattering, but tasty. Take one to two shots of sour apple flavored vodka, very cold, mixed with half a can of ginger ale poured over ice. Yummy. It goes particullarly well with an early Xmas present like, oh say, the complete Monty Python's Flying Circus.
New music Xmas eve
I've got a new winter-related sing posed on my music sites on MacJams and MacIdol. Hope to have another in the next day or so.
The Year in Review
One of the yearly traditions at the newspaper was the year in review articles we always ran, mainly in order to fill space during the slow holidays. I always broke them down into three parts for the last three weeks of the year so I would have to do as little other work as possible.
Since I don't have to worry about that at the liberry, I decided to do my own personal year in review. The year I've chosen is 1985 because I can remember some of the stuff I did that year.
January - Started the last semester of high school.
February - Received straight Superior ratings at Solo and ensemble
- Attended I-55 band clinic. Made first chair. Ironically enough, Rebecca was second chair. It's where we met.
March - Spring break. Managed to make it trhough withou any trips to the emergecy room.
- Drank my first bottle of burbon.
April - Tears for Fears album "Songs from the Big Chair" released. One of the best albums ever.
May - Graduated from high school
June - Spent next two months working in the city cemetery. Actually a pretty good job.
July - Spent a lot of time drinking beer with high school buddies before we went off to college.
August - Went off to college. Spent a lot of time drinking beer with friends from college and the on the weekends with friends from high school.
September - December - Did college stuff
December - Bought my first electric bass guitar.
Santa Claus and John Ashcroft are watching you
This is a little too close to reality to be funny.
Like a Strolling Phone
Rolling Stone Magazine, which stopped being cool back in the mid-80s, put out another list of of the top 500 songs of all times. While I don't necessarily agree with all the top 10, and especially the fact that the first Beatles song only comes in at #8 (they do have the most sings on the list, however, at 23), it's still an interesting list.
A Long Winter's Nap
I realized it's been almost two months since my last posting, so I figured I was overdue for a little blogging of my own. So here it it. Ta da!
