Happy Anniversary

It's getting close to the year mark since I've started this blog with the intention of pawning some early morning work (shh) ramblings onto my (admittedly, few) friends. Plus, the additional challenge of expressing my thoughts in a non-bullet note format. On that note, it's only been a very partial success.

Anyway, instead of using the whole New Year to look back at what I've done, I figured blog world anniversary is as a good excuse as any. So, onto the bullet list of things I have learned (or mostly verified more concretely).

1. Conversation: No matter how righteous a tone I take on, a great friend will see through it and always tell me I'm full of crap when I'm full of crap. Surrounding oneself with sycophants is highly overrated. Though, I'm probably just saying that because I've never been non-dorky enough to be on the receiving end of sycophantic adoration.

2. Animals: Always wait at least an hour after your dog takes a dump before cleaning up after him; Big dog pee kills grass like no other; and all animals like Nick better than me.

3. Heroes: Veronica Mars. Veronica Mars. Veronica Mars...and Gob.

4. Politics: Despite my declaration that I wasn't going to be a mindless party-follower and instead strive to be a vigorous fact-finding/informed voter, I find myself fixating on the negative information on who I'm predisposed to dislike and only concentrating on the positives of those I would had voted if I had believed in all the campaign lies in the first place. So end result? Keeping tabs on the election is entertaining, but I'd be ridiculously pretentious to think that I was being objective in terms of my views. At least I can promise I'll still never be an obnoxious online political article commentator who can't spell. Grr. Those drive me crazy.

5. Work: I can actually be decent at it. It'd be nice if I could be as vigorous with my EE industry knowledge as I was with my celebrity gossip. I guess we can put that as a new blog year resolution.

6. Laughs: Sam's blog. Jess. Ashley.