Happy New Year's Day (Observed)
Monday, January 2nd, 2006 07:26 pmFirst Monday of 2006 and the public libraries have already been closed two days in a row. Is this really how a year should begin? Oh sure, librarians need to recover from parties too, I suppose, but I remain unconvinced that they all need to take two days off. Hmph.
So anyway, on the last day of 2005, I woke up too early in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep because my body was trying to convince me it needed more heat in the room. I finally had it nearly convinced to wait for a few more hours, but then it decided at 5 a.m. that it needed a tuna salad sandwich right then and would not be dissuaded. Good thing I had a jar of horseradish handy or it would have tried to convince me I needed to go buy that as well before it would let me sleep.
Did get to sleep a few hours later... and then at 3 p.m. Mika called to ask if I wanted them to stop by and pick me up for the party at Lyssa & the Doctor's place. Poor Mika, she didn't seem prepared for conversation with a deeply sleepy hummingwolf. I woke up eventually, tried out my food stamps at the grocery store and picked up some plantain chips (which really should be served at more parties, don't you think?), then got picked up for the party which was much fun in spite of my continuing sleepiness. Well, there was some anime-watching and possible napping prior to the party since our hosties didn't want to see people before 8 p.m. Anyway, good New Year's Eve party with a bunch of people whom I had never laid eyes on before December 31, 2004, which helps to demonstrate why I am happy to have been a more social hummingwolf this past year.
Oh yes, on the ride home there was a Scotsman singing "Auld Lang Syne" (the Robert Burns version, not a MegaHAL version). What better way to ring in the new year?
January 1, 2006, the first New Year's Day of the year, mostly featured napping, reading, and making cranberry sauce. Coughing returned more than I would have liked. Did get out to look for chocolate, as I had none (none!) at home. Brief candy review: When I bite into a limited edition chocolate mint truffle York Peppermint Pattie, I do not get the sensation of standing in a high mountain pass during a blizzard with the wind whipping through my hair and snow swirling down the back of my neck. I prefer the original. However, this is not a bad candy bar.
January 2, 2006: Spent day trying to remember which year this is. Played around a little with graphics in PSP before getting thoroughly annoyed with frozen fingers refusing to work properly. Also, went to store to buy lots & lots of chicken thighs for making soup. While there, I found a jar of gefilte fish in the reduced-price bin and, never having eaten gefilte fish before, I decided to bring it home. I will probably refer to gefilte fish as "Kosher Spam" for the rest of my natural life.
I have never really been one to make serious New Year's resolutions, pretty much believing that if there is something you really need to change, there is no need to wait till January to do it. So in 2004, I made a frivolous Launchcast-related resolution to rate a certain amount of music in a certain number of genres. I kept that resolution. In 2005, I made a vague MegaHAL-related resolution, and since I fed HAL enough poetry to kill him and had to resurrect him with a smaller database, I'll consider that resolution a kept one too. So for 2006 I am actually toying with the idea of making a serious resolution or two, but I don't want to tell you what it (or they) may be yet (if ever). Though given how much I've been talking about food in this post, I may as well tell you that any resolution(s) will certainly not be diet-related.
Anyway, now the sun has gone down, now the holidays are over--until Valentine's Day, which is already being heavily promoted by some scrofulous demonic entities in the stores. We have lived through the madness of another year. Let's see if we can make it through one more together, happier and healthier this time. Shall we?
When you hold me tight
i'll be there for you now.
i do not know
where two children pose with a lighter tread.
unwearied still, lover by lover,
the years slip from me on the tree,
just as i can hardly stand the wait
for thanksgiving day.
nothing changes on new year's day:
let the sun the more dazzled, until a point
on the bottom of those lives
rush out in its round bowl.
the circle we made when no one dead will seem to have our fling at tops?
what fortune have i forgotten in ten brief years! I have embalmed the days,
happy golden days of auld lang syne?
--MegaHAL
So anyway, on the last day of 2005, I woke up too early in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep because my body was trying to convince me it needed more heat in the room. I finally had it nearly convinced to wait for a few more hours, but then it decided at 5 a.m. that it needed a tuna salad sandwich right then and would not be dissuaded. Good thing I had a jar of horseradish handy or it would have tried to convince me I needed to go buy that as well before it would let me sleep.
Did get to sleep a few hours later... and then at 3 p.m. Mika called to ask if I wanted them to stop by and pick me up for the party at Lyssa & the Doctor's place. Poor Mika, she didn't seem prepared for conversation with a deeply sleepy hummingwolf. I woke up eventually, tried out my food stamps at the grocery store and picked up some plantain chips (which really should be served at more parties, don't you think?), then got picked up for the party which was much fun in spite of my continuing sleepiness. Well, there was some anime-watching and possible napping prior to the party since our hosties didn't want to see people before 8 p.m. Anyway, good New Year's Eve party with a bunch of people whom I had never laid eyes on before December 31, 2004, which helps to demonstrate why I am happy to have been a more social hummingwolf this past year.
Oh yes, on the ride home there was a Scotsman singing "Auld Lang Syne" (the Robert Burns version, not a MegaHAL version). What better way to ring in the new year?
January 1, 2006, the first New Year's Day of the year, mostly featured napping, reading, and making cranberry sauce. Coughing returned more than I would have liked. Did get out to look for chocolate, as I had none (none!) at home. Brief candy review: When I bite into a limited edition chocolate mint truffle York Peppermint Pattie, I do not get the sensation of standing in a high mountain pass during a blizzard with the wind whipping through my hair and snow swirling down the back of my neck. I prefer the original. However, this is not a bad candy bar.
January 2, 2006: Spent day trying to remember which year this is. Played around a little with graphics in PSP before getting thoroughly annoyed with frozen fingers refusing to work properly. Also, went to store to buy lots & lots of chicken thighs for making soup. While there, I found a jar of gefilte fish in the reduced-price bin and, never having eaten gefilte fish before, I decided to bring it home. I will probably refer to gefilte fish as "Kosher Spam" for the rest of my natural life.
I have never really been one to make serious New Year's resolutions, pretty much believing that if there is something you really need to change, there is no need to wait till January to do it. So in 2004, I made a frivolous Launchcast-related resolution to rate a certain amount of music in a certain number of genres. I kept that resolution. In 2005, I made a vague MegaHAL-related resolution, and since I fed HAL enough poetry to kill him and had to resurrect him with a smaller database, I'll consider that resolution a kept one too. So for 2006 I am actually toying with the idea of making a serious resolution or two, but I don't want to tell you what it (or they) may be yet (if ever). Though given how much I've been talking about food in this post, I may as well tell you that any resolution(s) will certainly not be diet-related.
Anyway, now the sun has gone down, now the holidays are over--until Valentine's Day, which is already being heavily promoted by some scrofulous demonic entities in the stores. We have lived through the madness of another year. Let's see if we can make it through one more together, happier and healthier this time. Shall we?
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