Last of 2008

This is it. The last post of 2008.

I'm off to a New Year's party at my uncle Steve's. It's a good one. Family. Games. Fun. Just the right way to end the year.

Check back tomorrow and what you'll see won't be quite the same.

Enjoy.

End of the Year 2008 - Part IV

Favorite Movie of 2008: The Dark Knight
Runner Up: Iron Man

Favorite Book of 2008: Steven King
Wait, you say? He's not a book, but rather an author? True. I finished his Dark Tower series this year and it was fantastic. It created for me a world of characters I came to care about, and a story that kept me wondering, anxious, and still excited about even months after it ended.

That's as much a year end list as you will see from me. Maybe next year I'll remember a bit more, have paid closer attention.

End of the Year 2008 - Part III

Image of the Year 2008. I took this photo from my hotel room in New York City during my week spent there this summer. It is my favorite image of the city.

End of the Year 2008 - Part II

Okay, so I'm having a bit too much fun playing around on the computer today...

The blog will be different because of it. Starting tomorrow there will be new content, images, logos - a whole mess of newness for you. And these aren't even additions I alluded to earlier.

Maybe, just maybe, I'll stop long enough to each lunch.

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End of the Year 2008 - Part I

Woke up with my alarm at 5 AM, but snoozed until 5:15. Don't know why I stayed awake, but I tuned into a couple episodes of Angel (season 1, episodes 1 and 2).

I showered and then went up to Casey's for some breakfast pizza (sausage) and a couple of donuts.

Watched some Futurama on DVD.

I don't really know what I'll do today. I mean, I know I have stuff to do, including work on my additions. But it sort of feels like a day to just do whatever comes to mind. Leave the heavy lifting for the new year.

Curse You, Milk!

The milk I just bought - I guess - had an open cap, because it managed to spill itself all over my counter before I even had the chance to put it away.

Now I have to go back out and buy another gallon of the stuff because I need it to drink and bake a pudding pie with. Grr.

Remember?

I was trying to think back to the beginning of the year, what with this year wrapping up. Only, I can't really remember what I was doing a year ago. I remember working out in the summer with my brother and going on RAGBRAI and the Olympics and the past few months, but anything before summer - gone.

If anything, that just tells me how important it is I keep a blog. How else am I going to remember anything that I've done?

Went and saw Bedtime Stories today with some uncles, an aunt, and a mess of cousins. It was good. Much more enjoyable than The Spirit, which I saw last night. Bedtime Stories was fun, filled with great little bits from lots of great actors. I don't know, it just was good.

Changes Are A-Comin'

I guess I wouldn't say changes so much as additions. I'm not going to spoil it now, but for the few who follow what happens here, on January 1st, 2009, you are going to have a whole lot more Pirate.

The changes additions I'm adding will hopefully motivate me to make the changes in my life I want for myself. It will be a lot to do at one time, but I find that I'm only successful when I'm busy. So busy I will become...witness a renaissance, pirate.

Stay tuned...

Not A Good Night

I did not have a good night last night. I was sick from about 10:00 PM until, well, now. I lost count how many times I was up and yarking through the night. It is down to the point where I have nothing left to give up. I could really use a Diet Sprite or a Diet 7-Up. I'm just waiting to head out because of the bad weather - freezing rain and icy roads - and because I'm not entirely sure I'm done being sick.

What a miserable way to spend a night.

A Bad, Bad Thing

I did a bad, bad thing. I used some Christmas money and bought me a toy.

(It is quite fun.)

Guitar Hero: World Tour for the X-Box 360 now sits in the middle of my living room.

War Nuggets

I think I've watched too many war movies in too short a time. I'm starting to have dreams that I'm in war. Only, in my dreams, everything - the trenches, the weapons, the planes, the parachutes - is made out of Mc Donald's chicken nuggets. I kid you not.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

'Twas a movie made most excellent. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a great, epic - moving - film. It was just the type of movie that you go see on Christmas Day. It had a little bit of everything; just enough for everyone. It's an interesting thing to think about: what would life be like if you lived it backward - starting out old as a baby and aging back to a newborn at death. One of the top three movies of the year, in my opinion.

All Kinds of Happy

And so then I check my email and Santa had sent me a gift card from Amazon.

I'm not forgotten on Christmas morning by the big guy.

Santa made my day. Quite literally turned it all around.

(Thank you)

Christmas Day 2008

This is the latest I can remember ever sleeping in on Christmas Day. There may have been a day when I was a baby that I didn't wake up early - but I doubt it. I woke up just a bit before 9 AM.

No stockings. No presents. No family. :( Christmas has changed for me.

So, I'm off to my grandma's for some of those things I missed. It's then The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and maybe another movie after that. Later I'll come home and watch my last war movie (The Very Long Engagement) and just chill out.