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If anyone needs me, I'll be off having a total convulsive geekout, 80s style.

I found out this morning that a friend of the family passed on. Yet another smoker is lost to lung cancer.

I didn't know her very well, but my mom grew up with her. I'll accompany mom to the funeral home tomorrow evening, shortly after getting home from the holiday party at work.

In other news, as much as I love Winter, the associated holidays are always guaranteed to bring some sort of huge upset or drama to the surface, usually family-related. Had a big one play out over the past couple of nights, which is now out of my hands. The newest one is just beginning tonight.

And I'm still trying to wrestle a cranky PostNuke install into submission, teaching myself CSS along the way. I publicly set myself a deadline of the 26th to go live, we'll see how that works out...

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Yoinked from the lovely and talented Marie:

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?: Visited some places I'd never been before, met some new people, gained a new level of community, spoke at a nerd convention, and lots of other stuff that's private.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?: I don't really do resolutions.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?: Some coworkers I don't know very well.

4. Did anyone close to you die?: Yes.

5. What countries did you visit?: Just this one.

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?: A new place.

7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?: July 9-11 (geekfest,) November 13-15 (road trip)

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?: This was the first year I really had a good amount of time to work on myself, mentally, spiritually, and so on. It was needed.

9. What was your biggest failure?: I dunno... my room is a mess. Does that count?

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?: Not especially.

11. What was the best thing you bought?: The makings of Tom Servo.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?: Fina's!

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?: ___

14. Where did most of your money go?: Squandered on trivialities like food and shelter.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?: Most things.

16. What songs will always remind you of 2004?: The Kleptones' "Night at the Hip Hopera." Truly great stuff.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i) happier or sadder?: Happier, definitely.
ii) thinner or fatter?: I fluctuate.
iii) richer or poorer?: Richer on payday, poorer by the day before payday.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?: Artwork.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?: Getting into unproductive funks.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?: With family. Pray for me.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?: I always seem to be in some sort of love. It didn't get me into too much trouble this year, though.

23. How many one night stands?: None that I'm aware of.

24. What were your favourite TV programmes?: MST3k, Dr Who, Sealab 2021, the rest of Adult Swim comedy.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?: I don't hate people. I am supremely more pissed at a politician or two, but that's about it.

26. What was the best book you read?: Fic: "Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett. Nonfic: "Drawing Down the Moon" by Margot Adler.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?: The Kleptones, Think Tank's "Mandroid" EP, The Bloodhound Gang's "Hooray for Boobies," DJ Dangermouse's "The Grey Album," some Ella Fitzgerald and Patsy Cline stuff I never knew existed.

28. What did you want and get?: Some great new friends, online and offline.

29. What did you want and not get?: A new place.

30. What was your favourite film of this year?: "Napoleon Dynamite," what do you think? Gosh.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?: I went to a great party during which the host played the movie "Practical Magic," cueing just the Witchy parts. That night I crashed with some friends, with whom I went on vacation the next few days. I turned 27.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?: A new place. (Notice a theme here?)

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?: Same as I usually dress, with the addition of golf shirts at work (which I hate, but are the only way to survive the overactive heaters my job uses to cope with the elderly staff's underactive circulatory systems.)

34. What kept you sane?: My friends, my hobbies, and my collection of singing potatoes.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?: Either Tina Majorino or Tina Weymouth.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?: The war.

37. Who did you miss?: A few people.

38. Who was the best new person you met?: I can't choose just one. Everyone!

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004: No matter how insane or weird something you're going through is, you're not the only one.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older...

I haven't seen it yet, but I absolutely love my pal PURDooM's review...

I have a zodiac party to go to this Friday, a Yule party on Wednesday, a thing I'm possibly going to the next Friday, another seasonal thing the following Sunday, a Christmas Eve party on the 24th, a holiday party at work, another workplace shindig sometime in late December for a new retiree, and a couple of possibilities for the New Year.

Looks like I'll be giving 2004 a suitable kick in the hinder on its way out.

It's times like this, when I'm jamming CSS knowledge through my own head and trying to tame PostNuke so I can have pod-six ready for relaunch at something slightly less than hideously late into the new season, that I really need to step back, pop on the Bloodhound Gang, and enjoy the exploits of eyebrow thief.

Eyebrow thief goes through all those "rate-me" communities on livejournal, and steals eyebrows. This is the sort of person I need to hang out with more.

Happy Chanuka where applicable!

Enjoy!

For the benefit of my livejournalling pals who are too lazy to check this blog, I've set up a syndicated feed on livejournal. Add LJ user "rob_vincent" to your friends list, and these posts should show up on your friends page.

Fun!

I don't think the word "teaser" even begins to cover it.