It is now officially 2016. I’m starting a pool on how long it takes me to write that instead of 2015. For some reason, 2015 was easy to remember – I don’t think I goofed and wrote 2014 until July, and I still can’t figure out what brain cell misfired to cause that. I didn’t jump ahead of myself to write 2016 until about two weeks into December.
I’m still trying to figure out why 1972 seemed like a lifetime, while 2015 passed in the blink of an eye. All in all, it wasn’t an awful year – despite the broken ankle and the eyeball-munching, glass-pooping, razorblade-skating beetles that invade my eyes in the middle of the night (every damned night)… Seriously, it’s been a pretty good year. Work has been good and challenging; I’ve enjoyed fun times with family and friends; we visited interesting places (like Lake Tahoe, which is apparently my Waterloo)… and now, the promise of 2016 lies ahead. Cairn said it best:
https://www.facebook.com/cairn.rodrigues/posts/710688102364245
And The Doctor – the true expert on time:
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.
Dr. Who
Midnight and the Accidental New Year’s Eve Selfie
This is what happens when you look out the front window and try to take a photo of the kid shooting off fireworks right in front of your house – but forget to switch from the front to the back camera, and time it so perfectly that your face is lit up in the rockets’ red glare. That’s right – no lights, no flash, just New Year’s Eve fireworks in my neighborhood. That’s my pensive, “I’ll miss you, 2015…here’s hoping 2016 is equally awesome,” face. Or maybe I was thinking something else, but since my house isn’t on fire, we’ll just go with that.
My Most Engaged Readers
- Pierre Laberge
- Ramana Rajgopaul
- Mitch Mitchell
- Rasheed Hooda
- Patricia Stoltey
- Marian Allen
- Mia Pleasant
- and…my Dad. 🙂 (No, DoD does not stand for “Department of Defense,” in case any of you were wondering if I was having a little chat in the comments with the DOD.)
To each of you, I give the Top Common Tater Award:
Display it proudly. Or eat it.
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Don’t look at me! Try Zimbio’s Random New Year’s Resolution Generator.
I’m mostly just recycling last year’s, since I didn’t finish most of them.
Oh, that’s so cool to receive your Top Common Tater award. Thanks, Holly!
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You’re very welcome, Patricia! Thanks for being one of my top commenters in 2015!
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I downloaded and saved my Common Tater! THANKS!
Now recall for 2016 you need to have 3 weird adventures (Nicely spaced out, of course!), 2 horror stories, and win 1 award. You can do other stuff, too, but thems they be required…..
I can pretty much guarantee all but the award. 😉
HA HA HA! But I already have mine. So I have to figure out how to make one of those posters to give you an Un-Common Poster Award ….
Any ideas?
If I have to make my own award, it’s not much of an award! LOL Well, you have all year to think of something, Pete. 🙂
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If I knew how to make one, I would!
But it would be useful to know WHAT to award!
Well, if the spirit doesn’t move you at all in the coming year, I don’t deserve the accolades, anyway!
Ok, well, I have 363 days to come up with a WHY.
This time may give me a WHAT.
Somehow I need to find out HOW people make those dammed posters.
BTW: Something my HP printer should do. (Along with the fact that it would not let me register it, clearly a bug HP has to fix!) But it DOES do COOL: graph paper, and automatic grocery list things, and some other stuff. We need more of that HP! To do list, Holly Awards, and stuff like that!
Holly’s Mission: Tell ’em.
Oh, just a “how to” question? Try Canva.com. 😉
It’s the secret site of pros. (I use Paint Shop Pro, myself, but Canva is free.)
BTW, I really did make your “Common Tater Award.” Right down to dressing up a tater and putting him in front of my library of books.
Tried the Canva, thing. Cool but beyond me. I am more of the Print Shop type ….
They still make that, or you have a copy that still runs, left over from the 1980s?
I own a functional Apple //e and Epson dot matrix. I had an IBM copy years ago, but lost it. I like stuff quick and simple. At my age and my health, it is safer that way.