― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Personally is always more fun though! 2006 started out with a breakup that was clearly inevitable on New Year's Eve, continued to see all my friends pair up so I finally went "fuck y'all, I'm going to Siberia" in February (okay, I was going to anyway), wavered between homesick and drunk in the snow for two months, got in touch with my Armenian heritage, fell in love with Russia. Things went up from there. And at some point - I don't know when - stopped thinking of myself as a wannabe-Christian-who-just-couldn't-cut-it and started trying to be a real-Christian-with-serious-doubt-issues. Personally: less across-the-board wonderful than 2005, but way more exciting.
― Maria e (Maria), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
(And to kool dudette Jody Bet'hoven: häid jõule ja ilusat uut aastat!)
― tiit (t**t), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
- met an amazing girl at--of all things--a saint etienne show- a new, steady job w/benefits and respect and cool co-workers- a new car on the horizon- my brother got engaged last week- not as much debt as a year ago- several new, great friends
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
- actually get new car- get raise- clone girlfriend- get steady dj gig- attend FAP
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
also györgy ligeti, stanislaw lem, anna politkovskaya, sven nykvist, james "belt" van allen, floyd patterson, can tiit confirm lennart meri was one of the good guys? if so, him etc etc.
2006 was decent. Learnt/managed not to get involved in more stuff than I could handle more or less comfortably; home & work life slid along ok; redecorated summer house kitchen and at the same time got promise that next summer be totally redecoration-free; did well internationally in hobby competitive pursuit; no mortal enemies as of the yet.
― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
he truly was.
― tiit (t**t), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Personal reasons:- New job that doesn't involve people asking me why I'm stealing their money- EMP hijinx- burgeoning movie geek interest via Netflix + new flatscreen HDTV (A Touch of Zen is the shit)- Getting to see Rakim, the Hold Steady & Gogol Bordello live- lots of good times with friends (concerts, Halloween, beer-tasting parties, etc.)- more frequent + lucrative freelance writing work- debt drastically reduced
Other reasons:- lol @ Santorum- Twins getting new stadium, also Mauer + Santana + Morneau pwning everyone- The Departed- Bully, Guitar Hero II, Gears of War- Pinochet = dead
― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Thought so. :) :(
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Btw in s-american dead ex-dictators subthread, I suppose Alfredo Stroessner should be mentioned as well.
― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
This might be my resolution for this upcoming year, but we'll see. All I'll say is that I just *love* seeing the prices continue to fall, and that my old large-size Trinitron is holding up still...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
gear, be careful wot you wish fo' ;)
― tiit (t**t), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Best astronomy nerdy event this year: after the body provisionally known as Xena was renamed Eris, in compensation its moon was called Dysnomia, the Greek for "lawlessness", as tribute to Xena actress Lucy Lawless. :D
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― tiit (t**t), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
met wonderful $girl (x2)got wonderful jobz (x2)got wonderful new home (x1)
D:
ruined it with wonderful $girl (x2)nights spent homeless (x46)lost wonderful job (x1)massive debt (x$70,000)
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
let's see:-got thru and over most of my anxiety -got a much better job doing things I like and a v. supportive environment w/ a much better boss-got rid of my leased middle-class sportsy sedan for a far more affordable grandpa car-working on improved social bits-found a very nearby gym where I work out regularly-finally beginning to get the finances caught up-found more folks in portland to do social things w/
-oh yeah, and as of three days ago, I am now an uncle.
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria e (Maria), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― hm (modestmickey), Saturday, 23 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― j.d. (j.d.), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Milosevic croaked, too.
― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― cozeny (cozeny), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (acrobat), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― cozeny (cozeny), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― cozeny (cozeny), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (acrobat), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― cozeny (cozeny), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Sunday, 24 December 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link
cons: made dumb decisions at work; in debt; one friend killed in motorbike accident, two others left the country.
summary: more dud than classic.
― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Sunday, 24 December 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
(a.) Got major work promotion.(b.) Purchased my first "I own this" home (I still can't believe it).(c.) Got to communicating with some of my favorite personalities.(d.) Further established some friendships.(e.) Actually liking my work colleagues now.(f.) I gave up on compromising and started on being true to only myself.
Bad parts about 2006:
(a.) Now I have to wake up at 4 am to get to work on time.(b.) Old house still not sold; market slowly getting colder.(c.) Communicating with one's heroes not completely all its cracked up to be.(d.) Woke up to the fact that some of my "friends" weren't.(e.) Trying to fight some of my impulse to isolate myself from these lovely new work colleagues.(f.) This uncompromised me has alienated some people.
Oh, but I only had one bout of bronchitis this year, and my early summer surgery was an inadvertent impetus for the change in my work situation, and now I know I can handle surgery with just a local, and I've got other health issues under control.
― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link
"it's my belly button ring in a box"― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:38 (7 years ago) Permalink
― sanbox (step hen faps), Sunday, 2 November 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link