Friends

Every hotel room key from last year. i don't know why i decided to keep them all, but you know me...

"i'd invite you back to my place
It's only mine because it holds my suitcase
It looks like home to me alright
But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night

Must i be the man in a suitcase?
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face?

Another key for my collection
For security i race for my connection
Bird in a flying cage you'll never get to know me well
The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell"

my boss was wondering aloud if my jar of jellybeans would return to the office. Turns out, there was a Costco only 7 miles away...and just 4 past my hotel. i got a traditional polish sausage afterwards. i was so used to going with Matt that i offered the girl $3.20 but it was only $1.61. LOL.

What a year. i thought that i was getting in a rut on my pics, but when you get down to it, considering that i work 10-12 hour days, i don't have time to go around town taking pictures of daffodils like the cool kids. It's just the detritus of my not-so-fabulous life. i was trying to do these stats with a paper and pencil, but kept getting confused. Fortunately, Darin/durabear was doing stats as well and gave me the idea to use Excel!



So here it is. my year in a nutshell...or 40-odd pics (most in small format for space consideration). These are some of my favorites or most meaningful (to me) pics. Thanks for coming along for the ride. i hope i didn't bore you. *hugz*

( 40 pics...some NSFW, just like my life )



Probably my best - and luckiest - pic of the year.

The year started off slowly. i got to spend a lot of time catching up on "Heroes" and "LOST", the later via Netflix on Matt's xbox. i also spent a lot of time going through the last year's 365-Project and bemoaning the lack of originality and the general malais of this past year. i wasn't sure if i wanted to do a third year, but it is my 50th and the start/end of a decade. So i hedged my bets.





i'm so far behind on responding to all of your comments on both our trip and our holidays. And i still have to put together this whole end-of-year wrap-up. Thanks to Darin/durabear for helping me with my pencil-&-paper stat problem...hopefully i'll have that for you tonight.

( underwear and towels...NSFW )

Fun on a Sunday. Tried on these "fun"derwear that we got in SF. They are XL, but that must be for twinks, LOL. Matt and i went to the tubs to soak and ran into Gryph/gryphons_hole who was resting up on his journey home. A great way to end my time off for work. Speaking of, time to go.

Instead of going out last night, we had everyone over for a LAN party, but it wound up just being a party instead. A whole lot of fun and we didn't even have to drive!

Egon and i back at NYE Y2K. What a difference a decade makes. It was a lifetime ago.

We got home late Tuesday night and my ankle was just totally trashed from all the walking. So i spent the day sitting on my ass, editing pictures and catching up on all those episodes of "Heroes" that i'd missed this year. It's gotten better.

We got our last CSA delivery of the season last week. How time flies!

final delivery

pumpkin bundt cake OK really it was butternut squash bundt cake, but that just doesn't have the same ring.