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January: My best wishes to all my readers for this and every coming new year.
February: I don't know what I despise more...Having to watch my bandwidth like a hawk knowing that to stay under the limit I'll probably have to live without Internet for a few days in the middle of the month, or...Having the DNS server suddenly drop off for a couple hours at a time every so often.
March: Not the first time something like this has happened.
April: Come on now, Who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you think you are?
May: Blue Gender.
June: While I was asleep this morning, one of our family friends, Jessica, was here picking up a dozen eggs that Dad had gotten her from a nearby farm as per their usual arrangements.
July: My wishlists are a known quantity.
August: Yes, there are times when exercizing a fantasy is more satisfying than outright making reality of it.
September: I'd had a suspicion that the mockup fighter jet in DEAL OF THE CENTURY was based on a Learjet, and I'm still looking for harder evidence.
October: Channel 7-2 in Knoxville just tweaked their schedule again.
November: Well, after that incident in Morristown in which I heard some really nasty noises come from Moonshine's underside last week, Dad and I scrambled to find a repair shop to get her back to rights.
December: Over the weekend was the local IPMS club's Swap Meet, and I got several kits for very very cheap.
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Complete one of the two current Reviewer Corps projects I have...and possibly the script/story idea I have for Ben Dunn at Antarctic Comics.
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January: Gold Is The Reason For The Wars We Wage.
February: Today I was continuing my conversion of Battletech to Heavy Gear system so I can play my MechWarrior "ex-clicky" pieces...and now I'm working on the PowerArmor and BattleArmor suits.
March: I mentioned it yesterday on Facebook.
April: Today has been a day for the birds of prey.
May: Some wilder than others...
June: I bought a LAN router for Precious and Mum's compy today.
July: AT&T has the best customer service system in the world.
August: What I said on Facebook last night (about Cowboys & Aliens): --A typical DOCTOR WHO plotline with a typical DREAMWORKS budget.
September: Madden NFL Superstars on Facebook just started its 2012 season overnight.
October: *Arrow pointing to the southeast side of the Milky Way Galaxy*
November: Highlights From Petite LeMans.
December: Movember is done and with it my facial hair.
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From back in May:

Dream overnight: I'm climbing a ladder and reach the top, and try to see over to the other side, but I find that I'm NOT perched atop a ladder--I'm on a huge stack of books. They sway under me and I quickly and carefully find a safe path back to down to the floor. I manage to get back to solid deck without falling or toppling the stack.

Does this mean my attempt to go back to school this year will be a failure? Does this mean I should do something else?


And my time in school was a failure--but not necessarily a waste. I suppose I should put more trust in my dreams...I haven't lately and it's been rough on my world.
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My one resolution for this year was busted by the State Of Tennessee. Problem is I can't make them pay for it.
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This weekend is the final regular season set in the National Football League. While the six teams of the NFC playoffs are set, it still needs to be decided which teams play each other. Meanwhile, there are seven contenders in the AFC for two playoff slots, and all that will be decided Sunday.

Being the Steelers fan that I am, I will need to watch this intently. For the Steelers to make the playoffs, not only do they have to win their game against the Dolphins in Miami...

They need the Patriots to eliminate the Texans (likely), and/or...

The Raiders to eliminate the Ravens (perhaps a 30% likelihood?), and/or...

The Chiefs to eliminate the Broncos (not frickin' likely).

And even if the majority of the above happens, the Steelers can still be knocked out if...

The Jets beat the Bengals in prime-time.

But that last game is probably the only game I'll be likely to actually see, as here the expected televised games will be:

The Colts at Buffalo.

The Falcons at the Bucs.

And the Titans (boo hiss!) at Seattle.

I hate the TV here.
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Jan: Midnight was a slice of bread pizza in the oven and echoes from some town's very loud fireworks.
Feb: A family friend gave me a new CD case--with over ten times the capacity of my well-traveled but still nice CD wallet.
Mar: The Lion's Roar was a heavy shower overnight, and snow this afternoon.
Apr: Without Awesome I Might Not Survive The Week So I Am Note Even Gonna Try
May: New Sensors Can Detect Land Mines From The Air.
June: PS: In the interest of SCIENCE...if somebody came up with a comestible product/recipie called "Instant Tuesday", what would you expect the ingredients to be?
July: Easier written than done.
Aug: I've been waiting for the next World War to break out over the last three or four Augusts.
Sept: And this is just the START of the fight.
Oct: I gave up being friends with someone once due to the other person expressing a blatantly racist opinion.
Nov: I just took a quick peek at New Astrology but decided not to repost the month horoscopes here.
Dec: I AM the tech-geek in my life.

Went by Aleks' place after the seminar today and saw fresh tire tracks in his driveway and some things in the place had been moved around. The optimist in my thoughts says that his family came and got things he needed in his convalescence. The pessimist paradigm doesn't know what to think, but at least it isn't like strangers are squatting in it or it's being torn down.
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The first lines from the first entries of each month...

Jan: Not an auspicious start for a new year...all four of the football teams I've followed this weekend lost.

Feb: DING!--You are now free to move about the comfort zone.

Mar: Sent off my application and resumé to my brother this afternoon.

Apr: ...As I've just returned to the Ruby Rather Manor after an 18-hour day trip to Asheville for a job interview, which went well.

May: SmartFix-40 has started.

June: Cleveland, one of the oldest and best model aircraft design companies...and the best source for airplane clip art ever.

July: Utility crews are at work on our road east of us.

Aug: As I'm writing this I'm wearing a shirt that advertises Tobasco pepper sauce.

Sept: We Trust In Your Love, Never Falling Down

Oct: I am posting this from Computer King repair shop in west Knoxville.

Nov: A guy is invited to a working vacation, and gets into incredible trouble.

Dec: December was heralded by pellet snow...since the ambient temp is about 40' F it didn't stick, but it looks like more is coming.

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On Tuesday I reconnected with Aleks...the man whose problems make me think of what I might be like fifteen to twenty years from now. He was out riding his bicycle three weeks earlier and got tagged by a car in a hit-and-run accident. The side mirror whacked his forehead.

On relaying the story to my parents, they "mobilized"--gathering food and clothes and sundry items (soap, hand lotion, washcloths) for me to take to him. So I visited him today and gave him everything and then took him to do some holiday shopping for himself. He had sales coupons for a hardware store and bought some tools he needed.

The thing of it is, yes I think it would be really great if I could do more for Aleks. On the other, I don't feel I have the right to do more than what I have. Besides...one thing I tend to do well is be a catalyst. I've already got a good idea. But I need to get the elements of this idea together in one place. Then we'll see what happens.
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My Dad got a second-hand TV aerial antenna and he put it up overday, just setting it under the existing one, so now in theory we have more than double the receptivity. Net result: we get the FOX and WB stations a little better. That's it.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW MEME

(Post the first line of your first message for each month this year...)

Yes, I finally give in to the prevailing currents of the web and start up this journal.
You want to know what's worse than being out of a job?
I'm nearly over this virus but it's still giving me the occasional crud.
When I was at the end of Fifth Grade, my teacher gave me an almanac of date-related trivia and for some years I was very interested in dates and their meanings.
Something has to be done about this stupid "fickle finger of fate" business.
Thanks to one of [profile] kevissimo's friends, I learned about http://www.astrodreamadvisor.com/free_mayan_readings.html and http://www.starroot.com/cgi/daycalc.pl and looked up my Mayan Astrological Sign and Horoscope.
Last night I had a strange dream...somebody had invented a new diet drink and with it a new disposable drink bottle made of latex.
Recently (a couple months back), I bought two CDs from Madacy's "Rock On" series and I decided to look at the others in the series to see if I wanted any of them.
My father introduced me to carbon paper about thirty years ago.
I want one of those Oreck air cleaner units.
Tonight I watched the PBS program Great Performances with the reunion concerts of Cream.

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Ever hear a litany of the symptoms of a disease and think "that's me!"? The other day, the people on NPR's "All Things Considered" talked about the finding about Beethoven's death being lead poisoning and I could only think of myself. I seem to suffer from things that sound like either lead or mercury poisoning, but I don't know if I should try to get diagnosed. I know that sounds like a no-brainer idea, but I am out of work, have little money and fear that getting treated for anything might prove worse than suffering in silence. Not that there's anything worthwhile in suffering.

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