2008, a review
Last year, I:
- Wrote about half a dozen filksongs.
- Did lots of mortgage paperwork.
- Won a cool monitor a year ago which I still haven't had a chance to hook up because current money issues preclude buying a computer which can actually run it.
- Occasionally walked to the beach, but nowhere near as much as I really should have.
- Had a sleep test.
- Tried some pilates, yoga, Tai Chi, badminton, swimming, and boating.
- Didn't end up travelling.
- Saw a bunch of movies.
- Had a really screwed up sleep cycle.
- Finally got the car to stop screeching.
- Put in two new letterboxes.
- Had a look at Contour Crafting.
- Read a bunch of supernatural romance books.
- Also read some Anne Lamott, Cory Doctorow, Ken McLeod, Jasper Fforde, and Philip Pullman.
- Tried singing and guitar playing.
- Introduced a music teacher to filk.
- Attended Swancon, Supanova, Fairbridge Folk Festival, and two big-business schmoozing events.
- Memorised pi to 100 places (and forgot most of it again).
- Tried CPAP and didn't like it.
- Put shelves up and took them down again.
- Qualified for a local skippers' licence.
- Had several weird dreams and blogged about them.
- Dreamed up several new toy designs.
- Designed and carried around at least two sets of business cards.
- Pontificated about a world-changing technology (fictional).
- Designed two world-changing technologies (realisable).
- Blogged using the following phrases:
"Taste the totalitarianism."
"Tch. Trying to hide information from someone with a career in tech support."
"...a postal envelope the size of Texas"
"...an inside-out version of the Bionic Man."
"Sunset on a Saturday night in summer, in the torpid beachfront community which exists as a thin strip of drowsiness between surf and city."
"...the US current political paranoia being the equivalent of sitting in the corner wallowing in filth and cutting itself..."
"Cynicism wins the day again!"
"...the monsters outside the cave, under the bed, and inside the skull..."
"...favorably compared to fluorescent lighting turned up to the intensity of a blast furnace."
"...the category of 'heroines I'd like to growl at because the problems they keep encountering are largely the result of them not taking a hard look at their life and doing a bit of prep work'."
"...amounts of money that would make Scrooge McDuck strap on a snorkel."
"...his desk, chair, pockets and tonsils are now full of customers..."
"...expensive, time-consuming, and meant I had to go clothes-shopping..."
"...fluffy!Javert."
"...Seanan groupies/cosplayers."
"...a waterfall of boxy plastic lemmings."
"...the fluid grace of a spastic zombie tumbling down a hill in a burning harp..."
"Cosplayers, catboys, trekkies, fursuiters, goths and stormtroopers..."
"...Iron Man meets Bridges of Madison County."
"It involved being a pyrokinetic apprentice monk..."
"...Tarantulas teamed up with Nikola Tesla on crack..."
"..._My Lawn So Emo_..."
"I also appear to be wound tighter than the Hulk's pocketwatch..."
"...written by Ritalin-deprived SMS-junkies with Parkinson's."
"...a tattoo proclaiming your love of PYJAMAS or MOOSEPIE or MORE GHERKIN."
"I wandered oceanwards in the pale first rays."
"Colours of the Australian Psyche"
Hmm. So what will I do in 2009, I wonder?
- Wrote about half a dozen filksongs.
- Did lots of mortgage paperwork.
- Won a cool monitor a year ago which I still haven't had a chance to hook up because current money issues preclude buying a computer which can actually run it.
- Occasionally walked to the beach, but nowhere near as much as I really should have.
- Had a sleep test.
- Tried some pilates, yoga, Tai Chi, badminton, swimming, and boating.
- Didn't end up travelling.
- Saw a bunch of movies.
- Had a really screwed up sleep cycle.
- Finally got the car to stop screeching.
- Put in two new letterboxes.
- Had a look at Contour Crafting.
- Read a bunch of supernatural romance books.
- Also read some Anne Lamott, Cory Doctorow, Ken McLeod, Jasper Fforde, and Philip Pullman.
- Tried singing and guitar playing.
- Introduced a music teacher to filk.
- Attended Swancon, Supanova, Fairbridge Folk Festival, and two big-business schmoozing events.
- Memorised pi to 100 places (and forgot most of it again).
- Tried CPAP and didn't like it.
- Put shelves up and took them down again.
- Qualified for a local skippers' licence.
- Had several weird dreams and blogged about them.
- Dreamed up several new toy designs.
- Designed and carried around at least two sets of business cards.
- Pontificated about a world-changing technology (fictional).
- Designed two world-changing technologies (realisable).
- Blogged using the following phrases:
"Taste the totalitarianism."
"Tch. Trying to hide information from someone with a career in tech support."
"...a postal envelope the size of Texas"
"...an inside-out version of the Bionic Man."
"Sunset on a Saturday night in summer, in the torpid beachfront community which exists as a thin strip of drowsiness between surf and city."
"...the US current political paranoia being the equivalent of sitting in the corner wallowing in filth and cutting itself..."
"Cynicism wins the day again!"
"...the monsters outside the cave, under the bed, and inside the skull..."
"...favorably compared to fluorescent lighting turned up to the intensity of a blast furnace."
"...the category of 'heroines I'd like to growl at because the problems they keep encountering are largely the result of them not taking a hard look at their life and doing a bit of prep work'."
"...amounts of money that would make Scrooge McDuck strap on a snorkel."
"...his desk, chair, pockets and tonsils are now full of customers..."
"...expensive, time-consuming, and meant I had to go clothes-shopping..."
"...fluffy!Javert."
"...Seanan groupies/cosplayers."
"...a waterfall of boxy plastic lemmings."
"...the fluid grace of a spastic zombie tumbling down a hill in a burning harp..."
"Cosplayers, catboys, trekkies, fursuiters, goths and stormtroopers..."
"...Iron Man meets Bridges of Madison County."
"It involved being a pyrokinetic apprentice monk..."
"...Tarantulas teamed up with Nikola Tesla on crack..."
"..._My Lawn So Emo_..."
"I also appear to be wound tighter than the Hulk's pocketwatch..."
"...written by Ritalin-deprived SMS-junkies with Parkinson's."
"...a tattoo proclaiming your love of PYJAMAS or MOOSEPIE or MORE GHERKIN."
"I wandered oceanwards in the pale first rays."
"Colours of the Australian Psyche"
Hmm. So what will I do in 2009, I wonder?