My New Year’s Resolutions:

Dec 312008
 

1. Kent’s new year resolution is to stop swearing. I counter that it’s all I have left. I quit everything that’s fun and I have no vices anymore. I’m keeping the fucking swearing until I have kids and even then I’ll just take it down a freaking notch.
2. Investigate how to incorporate sarcasm into writing so that the sarcasm is evident.
3. Play with Lucy.
4. Learn French cooking.
5. Find Roosevelt a friend. We adopted Rose to be a friend for Potato but she’s indifferent to pretty much everything on earth except for Beth’s room, drinking out of the faucet, and me (see photo below). Kent wants a tiny dog.
6. To find time to knit a lot more.
7. Master fresh pasta making.
8. Go to the beach.

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2008 Year End Stats

Dec 302008
 

Top Ten Most Viewed Posts in 2008

1. I Guess It Will Always Be This Way – (269 pageviews) by Kent
2. Lunar Eclipse Tonight – (142 pageviews) by Kent
3. Dave’s Top 10 Ways to Tell His Friends That He’s Going to Be a Daddy – (104 pageviews) by Dave
4. Brent’s Brother Posts 2007 Books Read List, Accidentally Reveals the Reason He Will Likely Die Alone – (103 pageviews) by Chuck
5. 2007 Year End Stats – (102 pageviews) by Kent
6. Kent Broke His Leg Again – (97 pageviews) by Brent
7. We Bought a House – (87 pageviews) by Kent
8. Progress – (83 pageviews) by Kent
9. Berniece Tillery – (79 pageviews) by Kent
10. 2008 JazzFest 2008x Better than 2007 – (75 pageviews) by Kent
10. Should I Eat this Banana? – (75 pageviews) by Brent

In 2008, we had:

  • 8,549 Visits
  • 1,531 Absolute Unique Visitors
  • 18,722 Pageviews

Happy Birthday BJ

Dec 302008
 

We will see you in NO!

I swear this won’t turn into a baby pictures site

Dec 262008
 

But Dave sent me these latest pictures, and I figure I should put them up.

Dave's kid

It’s like a little Dave.

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Merry Xmas!

Dec 242008
 

Happy Festivus from elbuzzard.com to you and yours and theirs.

This morning I did some reflecting and investigating into what Xmas is all about.  Here’s what I came up with:

  • Hot showers
  • Brickle
  • TENS Units
  • Working on Xmas Eve
  • Not being able to decide if The Wire is a really good show or not because you want to watch another season but you don’t really think it is worth tying up your Netflix queue to do so, and you felt the same way after Season 2 as you did after Season 1, but you watched Season 2 anyway, tying up your Netflix queue, hoping for more Omar but getting very little of him
  • Not being able to find your iPod
  • Hating Delta airlines because they ran over and destroyed the bag that contained all of our Xmas gifts for the Philly family
  • Getting aggravated that Grady Hospital will not bill your insurance company no matter how many times you fill out their little forms, including the time when you were in the hospital with your ankle disconnected from your leg and you were high as a kite on morphine
  • Hoping no one steals your outgoing mail (which includes Grady Hospital’s insurance form and the last disc of Season 2 of The Wire) when you raise the little flag on your mailbox to let the mailman know there’s something in there

After I finish working today, I will forcibly make Xmas be about:

  • Sazeracs
  • Sesame Ginger turkey breasts
  • Percocet

Merry Xmas, people.

Hardware

Dec 172008
 

Here’s the latest x-ray from my doctor’s appointment this morning, where you can see the pins and buttons and such:

I was concerned by the fact that the fibula still has a giant gap in it, but the doctor wasn’t concerned.  I don’t think the fibula matters to doctors.  It matters to me, though.  I hate the way it doesn’t line up there in the right-hand image.  Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

I’m on crutches two more weeks, then I can start walking on it in the boot.

UPDATED: Brent & Kent & Greg & Chelsey’s Annual Best Music of 2008 Post

Dec 162008
 

We know we’re the only ones interested. We accept that. Tough. This is our lists of our favorite albums of 2008.  You can find our list of favorite songs from 2008 here: K&B’s Best Songs of 2008, but first, lets get to our best albums of 2008:

UPDATE: Other folks (Greg, Chelsey) are chiming in, and I’m adding their picks to the post.  Stay tuned!

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Believe it or not

Dec 122008
 

It snowed in New Orleans yesterday!

Photo Sale at Morgan & Owens

Dec 012008
 

Jessie and James, photographers extraordinaire, are selling off some of their prints on their website:

Jessie writes:

As of this morning, our print sale “storefront” is open at our website.
Click on the tab “Print Sales” on the far right. We are offering 47 existing 11×14 prints for $40 each, including shipping. A holiday gift to our fans, while supplies last! Custom print options in several sizes are also available. We’ve put three pages of images up, so tool around and see if you see something you’d like, and we’ll ship it out to you. I look forward to sending these pictures to their new homes.

They do really nice work.  There are worse Xmas gifts than a nice photograph of some exotic faraway place.