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So everyone have a nice New Year? Hope you all had fun at your respective shindigs. I had a blast walking through a snowstorm and dozing through the 12 Oz. Mouse marathon while at work. Oh, and catching about five minutes of Dick Clark (Dear GOD, he got old fast. It's like all those years that he looked about forty-ish ganged up and smacked him upside the head.) just in time for the ball drop. And then they switched over to Ryan Whatshisname and Mariah Carey and I got the hell offa that station. I did have some plans to swing by a friend's before work, as much to give him the Non-Specific Winter Holiday present that I forgot to bring the last time I was up there as for anything else, but the Webster cops inexplicably had the only decent route into Milford blocked off completely. Seeing as this was less than an inch into the afore-mentioned snowstorm I doubt it was related to that, so I can only assume that there was some sort of zombie apocalypse going on down by the lake. Either way, it would've taken me too long to find another route before I'd have to leave for work, so that got scuttled. So most of my NYE, much like most of this last year, was spent slightly ticked off. Now have some slightly late year-end retrospective junk all up in yo' fizz.
2005 was something of a 'one step forward, one step back' experience. I went through a fair number of positive changes but almost all of them had significant negatives attatched. I got a new computer, apartment, and car, but only because the old ones all crapped out in some particularly annoying manner. I've been getting more hours at work and variation in the job sites again, but at the expense of a set schedule, short commute, and days off that match with friends' and allow me some mockery of a social life. I'm making more money, but have new bills and higher gas expenditures that gobble it right up. I finally got DSL, but rarely have time to really enjoy it properly, and when I do it decides that it doesn't want to process DNS requests until I restart the computer. And so forth. I'd like to hope that 2006 will have a few less of these annoying catches, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
But on the other hand, I had the unreservedly awesome experience of seeing Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath live this summer. That does kinda make up for a lot.
2005 was something of a 'one step forward, one step back' experience. I went through a fair number of positive changes but almost all of them had significant negatives attatched. I got a new computer, apartment, and car, but only because the old ones all crapped out in some particularly annoying manner. I've been getting more hours at work and variation in the job sites again, but at the expense of a set schedule, short commute, and days off that match with friends' and allow me some mockery of a social life. I'm making more money, but have new bills and higher gas expenditures that gobble it right up. I finally got DSL, but rarely have time to really enjoy it properly, and when I do it decides that it doesn't want to process DNS requests until I restart the computer. And so forth. I'd like to hope that 2006 will have a few less of these annoying catches, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
But on the other hand, I had the unreservedly awesome experience of seeing Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath live this summer. That does kinda make up for a lot.