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Not to be confused with former Chicago member Peter Cetera… Nothing much to say today, it just seems like it’s been a while since my last entry.
Holla.
Shhh… don’t tell PETA – Poke the Bunny
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snow snow snow snow SNOW!
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Well, the great blizzard of aught-three has come and gone, and boy was it an experience… I don’t think I’ll wish for snow with quite the same enthusiasm ever again.
It had just started flurrying when I left for work – no big deal. Got progressively heavier as I made my 45-minute drive to work, but still nothing to be concerned about. But once I got off the interstate – the roads got slick in a hurry. It happened so fast that within two minutes I was skidding into another car. I wasn’t going fast, and had plenty of time to stop, but my brakes simply refused to work. Dodging two lanes of traffic at a stoplight isn’t my idea of fun. Thankfully the damage to both my car and the guy I tagged was minimal.
I was at work for less than two hours before we were told to go home, but by that time it was too late… I left the office at 10:30AM, and went approximately five miles by 2:00PM, getting stuck once in the process to the point where someone had to give my car a shove to get it up a relatively small hill. I contemplated driving all the way home, but as the interstate came into view, I realized that they were actually moving *slower* than the side road that I was on. Regardless, I wasn’t going to make it home before dark, and I didn’t look forward to the prospect of the streets freezing over again while still stuck in the bumper-to-bumper traffic. So I made a detour and eventually made it to my grandmother’s house where I spent the night.
Not something I’d like to do again anytime soon, but it’ll make a good story to tell the grandkids… at least with some embellishment 🙂
“I remember it like it was yesterday… two and a half feet of snow, and I had to walk FIFTEEN MILES to get to my grandmother’s log cabin in the woods, all the while fending off the bears and coyotes with just some twigs and rocks!”
2002 Recap
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A friend sent out a end-of-year survey via email not too long ago, which I thought was a nifty way to do the “Christmas letter to friends and family” thing. So, since I am much less creative, I’ll just do the same here! Check back later when I’ve actually answered some of them 🙂
Q&A
- What was the best month of the year and why? June… it was the start of summer, I had my new ride, and took a much-needed vacation to Florida.
- What was the best joke you heard last year? “A pirate walks into a bar with a a steering wheel hanging out of his pants…”
- Which website did you visit the most last year? UMC.org, Gone Gold, ArsTechnica, Online Onslaught
- What do you consider to be your best achievement of the past year? Living to see this year.
- Which phone number did you dial the most often? My own… in order to check my messages 🙂
- How many concerts did you attend last year? About a half-dozen.
- What was the best thing that happened at work? My job became significantly more interesting… whereas I used to have to look for stuff to do, now it’s rare that I don’t have several projects to work on at any given time.
- What was the worst thing that happened at work? A coworker lost her son in an accident days before Christmas
- What was the worst decision you made last year? To sell my notebook computer. It was necessary, but I still hated to do it.
- What was the best decision you made last year? To not take a trip out west.
Favorites of 2002
- Movie: Tough call… I’m going to have to go with Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, simply because I saw it more times than any other movie this year. The Two Towers and Spider-Man are close runners-up
- CD: Def Leppard – X | Bodyjar – The Way Things Work | Superchic[k] – Superchic[k] | Queensryche – Live Evolution | Nickelback- Silver Side Up
- Song of the Year: “All the Things She Said” – Tatu | “Four Letter Word” – Def Leppard
- New TV show: It’s actually several short shows – Cartoon Networks “Adult Swim”
- Book read: The Case for Christ – Lee Strobel
- Athlete of the year: Kurt Angle, Olympic Gold Medalist 🙂
- Concert: Winger – yeah yeah, thanks to “Stuart” on Beavis and Butthead they’ll forever be a running joke, but they were one of the few 80s metal bands I never had a chance to see live during their popularity, and they did not disappoint… absolutely amazing musicians.
- New recipe: Nothing this year
- New discovery: QCast Tuner
- Holiday memory: A Thanksgiving dinner that consisted of KFC Popcorn Chicken.
Complete the Sentence
- My most memorable road trip was… With Randy, hitting Tupelo for a Third Day concert, Tunica for some Blackjack and Memphis for a Wizards basketball game all within a 48 hour period.
- The best money I spent this past year was on… A 2000 Toyota Celica GT-S
- The magazine I most often flip through is … Some of my old guitar magazines
- I laughed so hard I cried when …
- I really regret that I didn’t…
- It’s so ironic… That the song “Ironic” gives no good examples of irony.
- The scariest thing I saw last year was…
- This year, I’m most looking forward to… A new second cousin…
- My New Year’s resolutions are… To be more friendly and start running again.
- Instead of filling out this silly survey, I should be… Leaving work