Tag: end of year summary
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2023
I did this last year, so I should keep with it and do another big year in review post. So, in 2023: Started the year by going to Las Vegas for my birthday with a bunch of the regular crew. This was a great trip, and good to finally see a bunch of people and…
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2020 summary
So, 2020. We can all go on forever talking about the horrors of the year: the pandemic, the economy, the job market, politics, and everything else. I don’t want to get into it. I can’t get into it. Let me try to scrape together an update like I did last year and stick to my…
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2018 Summary
I keep attempting to write a nice, lofty post about the great things that happened in 2018, but it was a shit year, by any metric. So, I’ll keep this short, with a nice little list of accomplishments and appearances: Although published on 12/31/17, my book Help Me Find My Car Keys and We Can…
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2010, we hardly knew ye
2010 has come to a close, and I am getting a slow trickle of end-of-year letters and holiday cards in the old fashioned paper format, both things I always wish I would do, except I think about them roughly two days before xmas and all of my postal addresses are years out of date and…
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New decade rising
For whatever reason, I have not been overwhelmed with this whole change in decade. I vaguely remember the start of the 1980s, but I think that was mostly because I got the Death Star playset that Christmas. (And when I got it, my dad joked that I should just leave it in the box because…
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A poor excuse at an end-of-year wrapup
I’ve come to hate writing any kind of end-of-year bullshit on here. There is no possibility of me writing a favorite music of 2007 list, as I think I bought three CDs this year. I bought almost no DVDs, and pretty much every movie in the theaters in 2007 sucked total shit. (I actually liked…
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Goodbye 2005
Okay, it looks like the annual archive-last-year-and-start anew journal maintenance worked, and I’m ready to start 2006. Because I cobbled together this system back in 1997 and slowly added new features to it over the years, I can never remember exactly how to do this big shift at the end of the year, and every…