Goodbye 2008!
Okay, so some might question why I do a pair of "2008 Year in Review"-type columns in the days up to New Year's Eve, only to type up a standard "Here's What's New" entry on said Eve itself. Oh well, that's just the way I roll here on my blog. Hey, I figure it's my blog, I can roll anyway I want to.
So, as I'm writing this, I'm sitting in front of a New Year's-related movie "When Harry Met Sally..." (If I'd planned it better I would have stuck in More American Grafitti, another movie that takes place on New Year's Eve. And at only 13 minutes in, "When Harry Met Sally..." like every other 20th century flick set in New York, dates itself with a shot of the Twin Towers.
Man...even when she was supposed to be living in the late 1970s, Meg Ryan looks amazing. Not so much in 1982 but then later on in the film (as I recall) she gets better.
With the New Year, I decided to spruce things up. For a couple of days before the break and over Christmas, I decided to get lazy and not shave. However, it was time for me to get a hair cut and a shave. Just for sh!ts and giggles, I decided to do the before and after shot.
Okay, shut the f&ck up. Yeah, I looked like crap...and even worse in the before picture. (bad-um-bump! Thanks, I'm here all week!) I will say this. I feel a lot better with the shave and a haircut than I did before. Man, the beard gets itchy after a while.
With the time off, I've managed to nearly finish off that pesky To Do list that I always seem to be working on. I have a couple of e-mails to write tomorrow and at some point (possibly Friday or Saturday night) I want to pull an all-nighter and work away on my novel manuscript. Speaking of which, I sent a query off to a New York agency in the hopes of getting some representation towards the eventual publication. (Something I want to do a lot more of, if need be, in 2009.)
Meanwhile, I've been reading a lot over the last few days. I picked up several books at Chapters the other day, thanks to a Christmas gift card. I picked up Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death in the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford, and Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman. I've read a bit of both and enjoying both.
I'm continuing to read Last Flag Down by John Baldwin and Ron Powers. In addition, I'm also reading Dawn over Kitty Hawk by Walter J. Boyne, which is a fictionalized recounting of the Wright Brothers' invention of the airplane. I've had it for a while but just got around to it now. It's pretty good.
Well, I am going to close down. (Man, what a lame entry to end 2008.) Hope the hangovers from all the parties aren't too horrible.
Just remember "When the sh!t comes down, I'm going to be prepared and you're not."
