Retrospectacles

2010: Retrospectacle

January 3, 2011 Comments (1)

 

It has been some years since I’ve done one of these posts, recapping on the year just passed.

As far as years go, 2010 wasn’t bad.   Not much happened until the end.    Mostly I spent the year waiting for word on whether or not I was going to have to move… word that didn’t come until about mid-November.

For Gabe, this was all old-hat.   In the nine years, or so that he’s lived there, he says, the place has been perpetually on the market.   So he’s used to the idea of knowing you might get told to move at any time.

Well it finally happened, so I closed out the Old Year packing up our stuff and carting it a few blocks south-east.

Other than that, nothing else much went on.    Gabe worked some of the year, and didn’t a fair chunk of it as well.   In December he changed jobs so that we now both have full-time work.   Unfortunately he took a pay cut in the process.    Still, steady income is better.    We just both wish his base-salary was better.    Its a sales-job though, so he gets bonuses each month tied to the store’s performance.

Also in 2010 two of my very good friends returned from the Laughing Swamps of Louisiana to live on the street behind mine… only to have me move on them a few months later.  

I guess we can say it was a quiet year that ended with a bang.     The inauguration of Radcliffe’s ‘New Temple’ went off on the final day of the year.    It did suffer a momentary cancellation, but… let’s just say the spirits of the Church were all too ready to party and wouldn’t let a domestic squabble put a dampener on the celebration that needed to happen.    All in all it was just the distraction we needed to cool our heads.   When life leaves you blind, love keeps you kind.    So sayeth Chester, anyway.   🙂

2010 was also a landmark year for this here blog.    That may be because its when it launched, at least on WordPress.   They sent me some yearly stats and rated it as “wow,” meaning I did a good job with it.   Over a hundred new posts.   (Technically all, but since i was importing from LiveJournal, the remaining 400+ are past-dated prior to 2010.)   Its logged about 2500 views, so I guess Rune is right… I have fans.    More than I knew.

Curious, though, is that ‘sorceror1978’ is one of the top five search terms associated to traffic with this blog.    Yes, Russell, your cyber-stalking is not going unnoticed.   (Its kinda cute, really.)    🙂

 

So that is that on my retrospectacling of the old year.     Oh yeah, and 2010 finally delivered on the decades-long promise of having flying cars on the market.    Ten years late, but now they’re here.    Take cover!

2011’s theme for me, I think, is going to be one of rebirth and rejuvenation.  Probably not for me, personally, but for things I touch.     We’ll revisit that in about 362, or so, days.   🙂

We generated a modest list of suggestions for the New Year Motto.   I’ll be compiling them online later tonight and setting up a voting-type-of thing.   The personal motto I have for you all, though, is this:   We’re all children of the same Earth.

I hope everyone had a great end-of-year celebration (or at least a great end-of-the-year if you didn’t celebrate in any particular fashion).    May 2011 bring you much joy and prosperity!

1 thought on “2010: Retrospectacle”

  1. But it’s like 2020 and those flying cars didn’t actually come to market as promised. It’s all about self-driving cars now. Which are also not really on the market en-masse.

    Check-in on this again in 2030.

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