Assorted one-liners from 2004
2005 results
Here we go again:
1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Did real, serious, no kidding charity work.
2. Did you keep your New Yars’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I had two:
Write at least one thing of substance per week. A short essay, a letter to a representative, a poem, just something. These are due on Sunday. They need not be shared with anyone, but I need to write them.
I got through thirty of them. That’s a lot more than zero, but substantially less than 52. I’d love to be able to say that the other 22 are too private to be shared … but that’s just not true.
Create a budget with Jen. Reconcile it monthly. Use this process to increase charitable giving and savings without spiraling into debt.
Except for the monthly reconciliation happening about every three months, this worked out pretty well.
Still thinking about whether I need anything new this year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yup. The trend continues. My pool of friends is approaching “replacement” levels of new humans produced.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
* Bob Hughes, my mentor from Michigan.
* Aaron Brown
* My parent’s kitten, Max.
5. What countries did you visit?
Haiti. Italy.
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Ownership in my company (again).
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
June 2nd, the day that someone else did a better job of making my wedding anniversary special than I did.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I got my black belt.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I’m no more organized than I was a year ago.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I think I broke a rib, but other than that nothing much.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Nothing comes to mind. I like my XBox 360?
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
technolope got his PhD
justkidding_nr entered med school
redmed. Hooray!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Bush. Rumsfeld.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Debt.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Tony Jaa.
16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Nothing comes to mind.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. happier or sadder? Happier!
b. thinner or fatter? Fatter!
c. richer or poorer? Richer!
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Being at home.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Travel.
20. How [did you spend] Christmas?
With the fam, in the hot tub.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Stan.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
With myself, just like every year.
23. How many one-night stands?
Zeeeeeee-rooooooooo (as usual).
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Battlestar Galactica
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Trying really hard to hate less.
26. What was the best book you read?
The Road by Cormac MacCarthey
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Axiom of truth.
28. What did you want and get?
Enlightenment.
29. What did you want and not get?
Partnership in my company.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Ironically enough, I was 31. I was at the beach, smacking around a piniata
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting partnership in my company.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Black.
34. What kept you sane?
Punching things.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Right now?
Katee Sackhoff, in her Battlestar Galactica Role of Starbuck.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Bush, the war in Iraq.
37. Who did you miss?
Me, 10 years ago.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Wow. I have no idea.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Human beings share a common, fundamental experience. In fact, it’s not unique to human beings … but all sentient beings.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.
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