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New Year's Eve loose ends

Belated thank you's go to RichinMedina, CollegeDJ86, and David5258, for all their kind comments since I launched this blog in August. In short, everybody who stopped by, left a comment here or elsewhere have helped me make this blog what it is.

Family notes: My in-laws made it to Florida safely on Friday. Thanks for all your prayers. WIXYjr left to go back to college yesterday. Hopefully I will be able to take a week's vacation within the next month. What would I have planned? Anything that doesn't involve driving 46 miles to work.

Television Note: As I write this the television has GSN on. The show playing is The 100 thousand dollar Pyramid. Bonus prize in the lucky sevens was a VCR. My how times have changed.

Do I have any New Years resolutions? Nope. I just want to be a better person and maybe a lighter person at this time next year. I do have to go to the doctor's sometime in the forseeable future and he probably will tell me I can eat anything I want. Then he will give me a list of things I will want.

Finally: If you drink tonight, don't drive. I will have too many sober friends on the roads tonight.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Happy New Year...I really don't like New Years (not my favorite holiday!)

If it makes you feel any better I drive 56 miles round trip a day for work. Which I have to be back in on Wednesday.

Wish you and your family the best!

Church went long today.
Anonymous said…
Wow! I got a mention in your blog... I don't know what I did to merit it, but thanks...

I've maybe said it before, but I've enjoyed reading your input among others' at sites like Radio-Info and RadioInsight. Despite the scary low-pay and low-security job stories, the industry still intrigues me. Reading all of those perspectives really fueled my interest.

Your blog is also neat though because you share a lot of personal thoughts and other cool tidbits. So keep it up as long as you want to write it.

Even though I'm nearly the same age as WIXYjr, I would probably like to meet you sometime, at least while I still am rooted in Wadsworth and going to school at Grove City College in PA. In the meantime, happy new year!

~collegedj86

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