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2010 in review
Better late than never, but as I bitched previously there's no relaxing time off for me on the holidays. Here's my 2010 year in review:
This is the year I lost 65 pounds after discovering I had gallstones.
This is the year I broke down and got health insurance (see above).
This is the year I rode a bike and changed my life.
This is the year I made a new penpal friend in Finland.
This is the year I got a computer with Windows 7, a choice I've regretted at least once a week since (including this past month, where every fifth time I turn the computer off Windows crashes and refuses to restart).
This is the year Tery made enormous strides in her struggle with alcoholism, ran her first triathlon and found God.
To cancel out her goodness, this is the year I officially became a smut peddlar and wrote my first semi-novel length Snarry (which has received rave reviews, BTW).
In still more evil deeds, this is the year I discovered the joy of torrent downloading, only to be sent a cease-and-desist letter from my ISP a few short months later. Just recently I've discovered the joy of "YouTube ripping," which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kavieshana tells me is so 2006 it never occurred to her to suggest it as an alternative.
Related, this is the year I discovered two great new bands, Imperative Reaction and mind.in.a.box. Watch this video to hear my favorite song by them; it starts kind of slow, then builds to one kick-ass verse, then ends far too soon (don't pay any attention to the video itself, it seems to have nothing to do with the song at all):
This is the year (maybe the last) I visited my family and realized they could possibly have some deep-seated emotional problems; like, should probably be in therapy caliber of problems.
This is the year Tery broke her 4-year winning streak of the neighborhood Christmas lights competition -- which would be easier to accept if the winners didn't only turn their lights on for the judging, and never again afterwards.
This is the year I learned that good things come to those who wait, that DVDs drop in price steadily if you're patient enough, and that not seeing movies in the theater whenever the mood strikes me isn't going to kill me.
Resolutions for 2011: Save, save, save (money); and lose, lose, lose (more weight. Hopefully. I seem to have plateaued for the past few weeks).
First picture of me taken in 2011:
And oh hell, have a couple of adorable ferrets in lurve, good way to start the year:
This is the year I lost 65 pounds after discovering I had gallstones.
This is the year I broke down and got health insurance (see above).
This is the year I rode a bike and changed my life.
This is the year I made a new penpal friend in Finland.
This is the year I got a computer with Windows 7, a choice I've regretted at least once a week since (including this past month, where every fifth time I turn the computer off Windows crashes and refuses to restart).
This is the year Tery made enormous strides in her struggle with alcoholism, ran her first triathlon and found God.
To cancel out her goodness, this is the year I officially became a smut peddlar and wrote my first semi-novel length Snarry (which has received rave reviews, BTW).
In still more evil deeds, this is the year I discovered the joy of torrent downloading, only to be sent a cease-and-desist letter from my ISP a few short months later. Just recently I've discovered the joy of "YouTube ripping," which
kavieshana tells me is so 2006 it never occurred to her to suggest it as an alternative.Related, this is the year I discovered two great new bands, Imperative Reaction and mind.in.a.box. Watch this video to hear my favorite song by them; it starts kind of slow, then builds to one kick-ass verse, then ends far too soon (don't pay any attention to the video itself, it seems to have nothing to do with the song at all):
This is the year (maybe the last) I visited my family and realized they could possibly have some deep-seated emotional problems; like, should probably be in therapy caliber of problems.
This is the year Tery broke her 4-year winning streak of the neighborhood Christmas lights competition -- which would be easier to accept if the winners didn't only turn their lights on for the judging, and never again afterwards.
This is the year I learned that good things come to those who wait, that DVDs drop in price steadily if you're patient enough, and that not seeing movies in the theater whenever the mood strikes me isn't going to kill me.
Resolutions for 2011: Save, save, save (money); and lose, lose, lose (more weight. Hopefully. I seem to have plateaued for the past few weeks).
First picture of me taken in 2011:
And oh hell, have a couple of adorable ferrets in lurve, good way to start the year:
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That picture of you is pretty hot. ;-)
And the ferrets are so cuuuuuuuuuute!
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*blush* Oh you.
:D They're SO gay together. I love them.
I'm stealing your idea, btw.
A whole year? You must speak fluent Bjork by now.
Don't forget, this is also the year you officially began your SERIES! (working title: Pretension).
Where do you find all these icons??
I think I will take 2011 off. I deserve it. And maybe by this time in 2012 I'll have saved enough money to mean it.
Nope. Fortunately Bjork speaks fluent enough English. I'm a lazy American. LEARN MY LANGUAGE.
Don't know if you did that on purpose: Misspelled "pretention" but added a double meaning, "Pre-tension." Hmmmm. (possibly finished part II last night. Have to give it a once-over)
In the pockets of jeans I've washed. I've gotta start checking them.
Have you read the previous years? I guess I just assumed you were already a Dave Barry fan. I didn't like this one as much as the last but then I never do. I'll be singing 2010's praises when the 2011 article comes out.
So what's your big plan for all that savings?
Exactly. I'm not convinced that Finnish or whatever IS a real language.
I believe it is you who are mistaken, friend. Unless I've been spelling it wrong forever.
Re: In the pockets of jeans I've washed. I've gotta start checking them.
No, I have nothing against Dave Barry, just never bothered to read him. Yet again you've awakened me to something I should probably already know about.
Holy hell, you're right. See? We're four days into 2011 and I'm already learning things. Well then I like that name for the series even more, however, not so much if it's mainly a private joke between us.
I don't have a motorcycle.
WELL then you need to look up "Honk Before You Petanque", my favorite of his columns.
Maybe this year should be all about learning things.
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(And awww ferret love)
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(I could fill an art gallery with their increasingly adorable poses together!)
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It's strange, I've heard nothing but good about Windows 7, except from you and one of my friends who has to restart his computer several times until it finally decides not to crash. Weird!
I'm not a heavy torrenter (at all! nope, not at all), but it seems weird to me that your own ISP will tell you to knock it off! I've heard that in the Amériques ISP's are a lot more involved in what you do on the internets than here. I have another friend who has an unlimited download capacity and is a regular at the Pirate Bay, and downloads more than a 100 GB per month just for the heck of it. He's not even in the top 100 downloaders of the country I hear.
Wait, what? Now I feel like a n00b. What the heck is YouTube ripping and how do you do it? Tell meee! :o DO WANTS!
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I like Win7 just fine, except for this one little thing of regular crashes. My friend who suffered through Windows Vista had the same problem. She said all online advice was to avoid turning the computer off and just putting it to sleep. We do that, but after three or four days the background running processes bog it down so much that it's excruciating to try to do anything on it. So it has to be restarted, leading to an anxiety-filled few moments of waiting breathlessly to see if it will make it past the logo screen or not (srsly: Once the only way to save it was to get a restore point from the install disc. Restarting your computer should NOT be this stressful). Madness. I've ordered a thumb drive for backing up very important stuff to make it a little less heartbreaking if/when I'm forced to do a factory recovery to save the damn thing.
Does your friend have Windows Home or Professional? I'm running Prof. Wonder if it makes a difference?
As I understand it, international torrenters are safer than Americans. We don't get caught unless the file owner registers a complaint with the ISP, who otherwise don't really care but are legally obligated to notify the offender. After that they may or may not put you on a watch list, but since I don't want to risk it I'll never know for sure.
My friend also is a regular (she turned me onto it in the first place), probably uses it way more than me and so far hasn't been caught. It's hella unfair.
LOL Well thank god it wasn't just ME who didn't know about it. This is how I do it: I download YT videos to my hard drive using RealPlayer. From there they have to be converted because YT uses that foolish .flv format that no one else has heard of. I found a great free program here that helpfully offers mp3 as an option. A couple of clicks and it basically extracts the audio from the video into an mp3! Voila!
Now I hope you aren't an especially clever internet gestapo who just tricked me into a full confession. :P
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Ah! Probably why I had no idea about it is because I avoid RealPlayer like something to avoid. The flv converter is pretty interesting though! I'd love to have me some YouTube videos as mp3's.
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