Should Auld Unused Blogs be Forgot

Beloved Carroteers,
The New Year's but a few short hours away. 'Tis the season for end-of-year, best-of / worst-of lists, so as I take stock of where I've been and what I've done, why not post it here? After all, I've hardly touched the blog all year long and someone (JFR) shocked me last week by informing me that he's been looking at this thing and I never post to it anymore! Here goes, then.

Best things about 2006:

1. Mom & Dad's health seemed OK, no scares like last year and got to spend really nice holidays with them;
2. the Ricky Martin concert in February;
   
3. the Shakira concert in August;
4. another awesome summer trip to Slovakia, and biking like 50km a day in the villages of my homeland;
5. finished a lot of good projects, including having a scholarly paper published;
6. the last MadonnaRama at VelvetNation in May;
7. got over myself enough to take my shirt off while dancing (1st time ever!) at the closing party of VelvetNation in July;
   
8. the Pet Shop Boys concert in October;
9. started volunteering 1 evening a month at PFLAG-DC;
   
10. a possible new job at the World Bank (stay tuned!);
11. got to see both Toronto and Minneapolis for the 1st time;
12. I started getting my financial situation sorted out & am hopefully on the right track given my meager resources;
13. saw 8 films at Reel Affirmations (most of which were worthwhile);
14. had a public-speaking gig that I really enjoyed doing and really felt good about how I'd done with it.
    

Not-so-great things about 2006:

• my long dry spell continues; no dates & hardly even developed an interest in anyone (there's a remote possibility for early 2007 though, dang, did I just jinx it?);
• didn't get to the shore, AGAIN;
• most of my friends at work have left the building;
• my apartment still is an uber-cluttered disaster area;
• all those things I said I would do (bike, skates, abs) didn't materialize, for various stupid reasons, but there's always next year.
  

Other stuff that happened but that I'm not sure how to react to them:

• I am fairly certain my job is gonna be eliminated in the next few months;
• my longtime household plant has finally left this world;
• I continue to have sleep-dreams about you-know-who (what does that mean?);
  
• I let this blog go almost totally unused; maybe I lost interest; maybe just not enough stuff happened that made me stop, take the time to write my thoughts down, and be creative with it.
  

Friend Count:
+1 solid new friend
-1 friend exited my life
2 good friends moved out of the area (but we're still in touch so that doesn't affect the count);
a number of promising new friends disappeared for what seemed no particular reason
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net friend gain -> 0
(met a few possible new ones though, we'll see)

As 2007 approaches like a tidal wave, sweeping away everything in its path, I'm wondering whether to let this blog go with it. For me it's served its purpose -- as therapy, mostly. Lately I haven't felt the need so much for this kinda stuff. Maybe I'm "feeling stuff" less; maybe I'm just burying my feelings. Whatever, it's not a decision I'm irrevocably going to make now. We'll see what the next few months bring.

Until my next inspiration to post, or until I make the decision to hang it up, a Happy New Year to all and hope to see you soon!

Richko / Uncle Rich / RDC