A new year? Yes please…
So I figured I’d combine the testing of my newly upgraded Wordpress 2.7 install with a blazingly interesting blog post. OK, maybe blazingly interesting could be applied to many things none of which include the post you are now reading. Regardless, I type on….
What is today you ask? Well, today happens to be new years eve – a day laced with anticipation for change, clashing violently against the drumming realization that tomorrow will bring with it much more of the same. Or, if you’re an optimist in need of some motivation, a great opportunity to shed a few pounds. I like to think that I fall in the middle somewhere, subconsciously willing the new year to thrust me out of redundancy in a shockwave of adrenaline while the other [more dominant] half criticizes the pointless insignificance of it all – mourning the loss of opportunity. As someone once said – ‘people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits’.
Jennie and I concluded the year high with the completion of the Twilight series – yes, she and I both red them – together – out loud. It was remenecent of my pre-marriage ‘dark period’, where countless days dissapeared into the reading chairs only found at the Tucson Barnes and Nobles on LaCholla (think Foothills mall). I’m pretty sure they would have banned me if I had waited even a week to switch from buying/returning books to just folding the page corners and returning the next day.
For Twilight we couldn’t afford the same luxury, with kids and all that, so instead we each found a copy and read out loud – night after night, book after book, and just finished a couple days ago. Ironically, I had never even heard of the series until a radio dj mentioned how good it was, only to find out mid-second book that it was some cult teeny-bopper sensation. Oh well, the world will never know that chris fay was shamefully impassioned by it all (oops…is this blog on?) Can we say 5th book please?
Christmas eve was an interesting mix of holiday cheer and emergency room mistletoe. Hayden had consumed an unknown quantity of xtra strength Tylenol, resulting in the force-feeding of charcoal covered pudding. I couldn’t blame him for only getting half of it down – the appearance was something evil in nature, eclipsed only by it’s slightly altered appearance on the way back out over the next few days. Fortunately, in the end his blood tests showed no traces of the drug and we were sent packing home in high xmas spirits.
Jennie’s mom arrived a couple days ago, providing some much needed rest more for Jennie than anyone else – I took advantage of the free time to swap my server and desktop machines. I should have known it wouldn’t last long to have my newly built server spec’d higher than my personal workstation. The swap was inevitable. I was even more surprised how easy it was to move the drive my Linux server was on to the new (old workstation) hardware – literally just plugged it in and it booted right up. Well, technically it failed to boot at first until i realized I still had my RAID drivers enabled – turned them off and it was uppity up and away.
I won’t bore you with any more details of the year past, and instead will leave you with a decidedly optimitsic quote from who else – Operah – “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
Happy new year everyone…
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