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Soln
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on: December 30, 2016, 07:03:40 PM

Happy early Hogmanay and New Year's Eve to you all.   I hope 2017 will be immeasurably better.  I have no resolutions but survive.  I intend to begin drinking tonight.



Good luck to everyone here. And Fuck 2016.

2016:  "One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
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Reply #1 on: December 30, 2016, 09:14:54 PM

My new years resolution is to not end up in prison.

Wish me luck.
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Reply #2 on: December 30, 2016, 11:10:43 PM

Yeah, 2016 was a shitty year. But I have a horrible feeling that it's the prelude to a far worse 2017 for most people.

I shall be sharing a bottle of cheap prosecco with my wife this evening, to celebrate the fact that we're still alive. Then I'll start on the bourbon once she falls asleep in front of the TV.

"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Reply #3 on: December 31, 2016, 06:24:56 AM

    My resolutions for far:

  • Lose 5kg
  • Do more sport (jogging and swimming)
  • Drink less
  • Play more computer games instead just hanging around in the front of the PC like a cat on tranquilizers on a sunny afternoon
  • Be more responsible
  • Grow as person.
  • Work on a career.
  • Return the video tapes.
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Reply #4 on: December 31, 2016, 07:59:10 AM

I am ending the year with a terrible cold. Which means I am probably starting the year with a terrible cold.

My only resolution: try and survive.

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Reply #5 on: December 31, 2016, 09:59:57 AM

Other than losing my little buddy Bart, 2016 was completely amazing for me, so I'm left out of step with all the morose liberals I work and socialize with.

My resolution for 2017 is to double down my efforts at learning to draw, and do everything in my power to get the atelier up and running. It's the first time since my band split up that I've felt the drive.
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Reply #6 on: December 31, 2016, 10:43:38 AM

Other than losing my little buddy Bart, 2016 was completely amazing for me, so I'm left out of step with all the morose liberals I work and socialize with.

My resolution for 2017 is to double down my efforts at learning to draw, and do everything in my power to get the atelier up and running. It's the first time since my band split up that I've felt the drive.
2016 wasn't amazing for anyone. Your little personal highlights are garbage in the face of humanity's existential crisis.
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Reply #7 on: December 31, 2016, 10:47:26 AM

Plus my pet dying would kinda ruin the whole decade.

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Reply #8 on: December 31, 2016, 11:05:22 AM

Happy New year people. Insert snarky comment here as needed.

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Reply #9 on: December 31, 2016, 03:37:39 PM

Happy New Year, everyone.

Thanks to you all for being part of a great community. I really do appreciate this place and I'm hoping for the best of 2017, for as much as it's worth.
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Reply #10 on: December 31, 2016, 03:47:55 PM

Happy new year everyone. Hope 2017 is a good one for us all, individually and collectively.

So far so good, but the first 10 hours aren't really indicative...
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Reply #11 on: December 31, 2016, 03:47:59 PM

Happy new year!

*kisses for this cabal of dorks*

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Reply #12 on: December 31, 2016, 04:32:30 PM

Happy new year! 

No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Reply #13 on: December 31, 2016, 04:44:46 PM

Happy new year!

May 2017 suck less than 2016!

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Reply #14 on: December 31, 2016, 05:20:47 PM

Currently seeing out the New Year in the most appropriate fashion - sick and tired with cold rain coming down outside. 2016, suck a dick and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

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Reply #15 on: December 31, 2016, 05:29:34 PM

My new year's resolution for 2018 is to drink less than I did in the previous year
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Reply #16 on: December 31, 2016, 05:30:51 PM

Since you know you're going to a drink a hell of a lot in 2017 already?

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Reply #17 on: December 31, 2016, 05:34:31 PM

I think it's important for goals to be achievable, yeah
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Reply #18 on: December 31, 2016, 05:44:23 PM

My new years resolution is to not end up in prison.

Wish me luck.
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Reply #19 on: December 31, 2016, 05:49:59 PM

Fuck 2016.  Add my main computer to the list if the dead for the year.
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Reply #20 on: December 31, 2016, 05:54:04 PM

Happy New Year, F13!

My goals are to lose some damn weight, start marketing my art more consistently, and organize my office better as part of an ongoing effort to declutter around the house.

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Reply #21 on: December 31, 2016, 08:06:55 PM

The wife and I are ushering in the new year with an Arrested Development marathon. Seems appropriate...

Happy New Years!
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Reply #22 on: December 31, 2016, 11:00:15 PM

Happy New Year. Fuck 2016 even harder than 2015!

I'm either joining a gym this year or buying a bowflex or something when the kiddo moves out next month. I need to do SOMETHING.
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Reply #23 on: January 01, 2017, 12:04:39 AM

Happy New Year folks. Be careful out there in 2017.

"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Reply #24 on: January 01, 2017, 12:23:24 AM

Happy New Year everybody.
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Reply #25 on: January 01, 2017, 01:29:36 AM

Happy New Year you shits.

I shared a $40 bottle of wine with four marriedish woman tonight - all was good.

My Resolution - $500 per paycheck for the next six months all towards debt. The good news is that I think I can pull it off.

Here's to a better 2017. Could it possibly be worse?

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Reply #26 on: January 01, 2017, 06:43:14 AM

It can always be worse.

Happy New Year, I felt like hell and went to bed at 10pm. Hooray getting old.
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Reply #27 on: January 01, 2017, 09:55:20 AM


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Reply #28 on: January 01, 2017, 03:05:08 PM

Spent my new year drinking and commiserating just outside of the DMZ that has become 57th street and 5th avenue.

20 days of prep left before shit gets real.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #29 on: January 01, 2017, 03:37:34 PM

Happy New Year everyone. Let's make sure 2017 is better than 2016!
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Reply #30 on: January 02, 2017, 04:53:24 PM

Here's to a better 2017. Could it possibly be worse?

The universe has ways of taking this phrase as a challenge. It can always, ALWAYS be worse until you draw your final breath.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Reply #31 on: January 03, 2017, 08:16:04 AM

Against the exhortations of my purported intellectual superiors, I had a pretty good 2016.  I'll not bother listing off all the cool things since I assume I'll just annoy people.  Note that David Bowie was a big exception to that but I'm trying to keep perspective.  You guys can feel free to point out all the awful things that I should be whining about from 2016 if you like.

Also I have a cat with cancer but again I'm keeping perspective.  One out of eight household animals being on a short calendar is not terrible.  Wife is happier than normal, her business is doing well, I'm not sucking terribly careerwise, my boss likes me, and in 2017 I'll be in Europe for a week with a SVP of another local tech company.  The boy managed to get all A's in the first half.  House still standing.  Positive outlook, proactive stress management occurred, and mental ownership of my situation.  The world is mine to fuck up.

I guess I did list a few things.

Consequently: I'm having a tough time even imagining a concrete resolution for myself.  In fact, I think that my reasonable responses to life challenges (real, imagined, forecast, or interpolated) is a good indicator that I'm very OK.  Minus one or two items that you guys do not want to read about.

I did decide that I need to hire a personal trainer because I simply do not have the ability to force myself to work out.  I should have not come to this decision when every fatass in sub-suburban Atlanta will be doing the same, but hey.

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Reply #32 on: January 03, 2017, 09:37:17 AM

Good on you.

I came to the conclusion around late October that we largely choose how miserable our life is perceived to be. It was destroying me and my marriage. I've gone another direction since then and been much happier. Thus my reduced presence here. You guys tend to foster a negative mindset.

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Reply #33 on: January 03, 2017, 09:55:52 AM

My 2016 was good enough for me. I don't get affected by the deaths of celebrities, my heroes, or even estranged family members. There are a handful of deaths that can and will affect me, and I'm hoping that nature spares me from most of them. Or maybe they won't, I don't know. Death and I have a strange relationship.

Sure, my professional road was a bit bumpy at times (and this year is going to be somewhat weird), but I got through.

My big bummer was of course the election of Ubergropenfuhrer Tremendous Cheeto the first of his name, and hopefully things don't get too shitty due to that. I probably should have also bought a cheaper car.. ohh well.  DRILLING AND MANLINESS

I need to get in better shape. Not "in shape"; I just don't want to feel like vomiting after backyard football on Christmas. I just hate running, hate gyms, hate stationary exercise, and have no time for anything. Yay.

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Reply #34 on: January 03, 2017, 09:57:15 AM

Good on you.

I came to the conclusion around late October that we largely choose how miserable our life is perceived to be. It was destroying me and my marriage. I've gone another direction since then and been much happier. Thus my reduced presence here. You guys tend to foster a negative mindset.
Eh, fuck 'em. I still love this place even if most folks are wicked emo. It's definitely a perception and mindset thing. The toe I broke last year was aching the other morning, rather than feel bitchy about it, I'm reminded of how the convalescence allowed me so much time to bum around the house with my cat. And rather than losing him 'wrecking the decade', I'm so very thankful to have had 8 long years of his company and given him a far longer and happier life than he'd have had on the street where he was found.

I have friends making a difference in city government, in the police and fire departments, in business, in the arts...it's just been an amazing year for so many people, if you stop focusing on what the media is pushing on you (don't be ignorant, but don't make it a bigger deal than your sphere of influence). I have a couple friends that opened the first brewery here since Prohibition.

But wow, some celebrities died. Strangers die every day.

Oddly, the Christian serenity prayer is a great mental reflex to develop (I'm not at all religious, it's just a good mechanism). Do what you can about what you can, and learn to make peace with the rest of it. Life's too short and precious to worry about stuff outside your sphere of control, and there are miracles and beauty to behold every day if you open your awareness to them. Have fun and do the thing!
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