"Next year will probably be worse" -- the evergreen prediction.
1: I don't know! This time last year I was calling the state abuse/neglect hotline to report my ex. Now that's (marginally) resolved and I have my own home and will presumably someday be able to get around without an ankle brace or constant coughing. These are all selfish things, but maybe the best way to feel you can survive the coming America is to have had things in your personal life be really, really bad before.
I predicted universal disharmony if Moby didn't move to Montreal.
My only prediction in that thread was correct.
In fact, I'm not in Montreal. I'm in Nebraska, with people who don't know today's date but still manage to repeat themselves less than bob.
Looking back at my personal quasi-resolutions, I did move to a new apartment and went to the dentist but I didn't get a new job and have decided to stick with my current one for now. I'm calling that a win on balance.
I went to the dentist twice in 2016.
I think I've figured out the new alliances: Russia, USA, Great Britain, India, Taiwan, Turkey, Egypt, and Israel vs. China, whatever's left of the EU, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.
My resolutions are more formed than usual, in part because I love my new list-keeping app (Clear I think) and so I've started a bunch of lists like "purchases in [category]" and "people who moved in 2017". Other resolutions:
1) get Fluffy to snuggle (aihmhb)
2) renew last year's resolution to keep clothes off the bedroom floor at least 80% of the time. That one lasted reasonably well until the last few months.
Also I have a dentist appointment next week
You forgot Iran. Can't have them with Israel or Trumpistan but presumably would have them with Russia, can't have them with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. I assume Japan is in the first set.
I didn't forget Iran, but its complicated for the reasons you mentioned. Yes, Japan in the first set.
Japan with a military, which is a new development.
Spoiler: you didn't.
Considering how few people made predictions I'd say that toglosh should get points for comment 6, predicting that Clinton would be the nominee and lose the general election*.
* It is painful to type that sentence.
Will 2017 be the year I'm less angry about the stolen election? Signs look grim.
politicalfootball called Trump winning the nomination.
I have to say my prediction looks like 75% correct to me.
Somebody is shooting off fireworks far too close to my head.
Same here. But I figure it must be for the little kids because it's two hours before 2017.
I'm in 2017 right now. You guys, its so much better so far.
Is there litigation about self-driving cars?
I don't know, I have seen it mentioned so far on my TrumpFace feed.
Walt: is that 75% of 0 or did you change your pseud this year?
May record is 1:1. New Jersey is still a sewer.
2016 just claimed Father Mulcahy. It had to take another one of the good ones before it left.
Oh, Happy New Year everyone! We're in California, but we just did the Netflix countdown and that totally counts.
2017 prediction: The Orioles are totally going to beat the Pirates in the World Series this year. In six games.
I'm in 2017 which is okay and at work which sucks.
The fireworks at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai are unreal. I hate a crowd scene like that but maybe I'll go next year.
Dogs were fried. Noisiest year I can remember, I don't know if they were celebrating or preparing the resistance but this massively minority (75%) LMC neighborhood been exploding stuff constantly for three hours. Must be the Asians ~10%. Just kidding.
2017 means I made it to 65. I survived so very many that are so much better than I. Consumed by survivors guilt. Not. Get this old you get permission to gloat.
Are resolutions tomorrow? I resolve to be nicer and learn stuff every day. Just discovered Simon Frith today. Fuck I'm ignorant. Read something funny today about kindness but I forgot it already.
Happy New Year. We'll probably survive 2017, goddammit. Fuck spellcheck, one 'd.' Where am I? Where is my happy home?
I predict that there will still be humans alive on Earth at the end of 2017.
Tonight I reluctantly attended a New Year's Eve party in Brooklyn. Much to my surprise, I enjoyed myself immensely. So 2017 is off to a better-than-expected start.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Haven't really been around,but have a happy new year reprobates. And a much better 2017. That goes double for you, LB
35: ... and anyone else who had a particularly shit '16
I'm actually in Texas personally right now, but I'm staying up in solidarity.
Partying down with Bob and his dogs?
Do we have any Houston commenters? I have a few more days here and don't have much planned, so I could probably do a meetup.
41: DaveLHI. It's right there in his pseud.
Mimosas made with fresh squeezed OJ behave quite oddly.
24 Exactly a year to the day 2015 took Trapper John.
Hungover. We were at a friends until midnight, with xelA in tow. All the other kids basically went to sleep earlier in the evening, but he never has sleepovers so he was hyper and was sitting dipping duck spring rolls in chilli sauce at 11:45.*
Not as hungover, I think, as Mrs ttaM, who was chucking up earlier.
* he is the opposite of a fussy kid-eater. He'll eat anything, the more adult the better.
Jesus! Bob is younger than me! I had him for at least 70.
Predictions:
1. Either Elizabeth II or Philip Mountbatten will join the choirs invisibule. The government will have a legislative orgy while no one is paying attention.
2. Trump will begin to show signs of being bored with the job by September. Mainstream liberal journalists will write screeds of analysis, but nothing will actually happen.
3. The 2018 new year thread on Unfogged will be indistinguishable from those in past years.
Resolution (1):
Finish eating all the Christmas cakes we were given last week before next Christmas. This will be a serious undertaking.
Happy New Year, all!
he is the opposite of a fussy kid-eater. He'll eat anything, the more adult the better.
He'll get fussier when he starts school. Peer pressure. Be ready to push back.
re: 54
He's been at nursery full time since he was 8 months, and he eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner there 4 days a week. I think he's likely to already be getting that peer pressure, although we live in west London, so it's entirely possible the other kids in his class are sushi, thai, and jerk food eating kids, rather than fish fingers and chips, only.
Soup! Happy new year everyone -- this next one probably won't be good, but it shouldn't be as surprisingly bad as 2016 was.
56: Hurray for low expectations!
53.last is a good resolution! It looks like I have two pieces of the toffee a friend always makes left, but that was a much higher number when I took the tin to bed with me last night. (Update as I'm ready to hit Post: zero! So much success in 2017!!)
I do have some resolutions. I'll be working on therapy, physical therapy, coparenting therapy, a six-week class I'm going to take on relationship-based trauma healing that I hope will help me be a better parent, plus whatever the small fry need for themselves. Um, I'd like to find some sort of physical activity that suits me and until I get there I finally have an ankle strong enough I can walk the dog daily now. It would be a good time to learn some programming, plus perhaps dust off some human languages. I'm the new owner of lurid keyaki's oud and should figure out at least the basics of what I'm doing there other than having some metaphor-heavy nervous breakdown. I'm ready to sew myself a linen shift. I need to cook more and better and more happily. I need to petition so Selah can start kindergarten, plus with a little luck there will be legal custody stuff to manage. This year we plan to take the train all the way to NYC for spring break. I got my first tattoo yesterday, which will maybe help me live in my body better. I'm still not sure dating in the near future is a good or plausible idea at all. I'm sure there's more!
This one, though that's before shading and detail and the red swelling that made me worry people would be grossed out if they looked at the final version. It's a milkweed vine along my side, so it'll be visible if I ever wear a two-piece bathing suit but not otherwise.
56 is probably true. No one should be surprised at how bad it will be.
60 Wait, I thought FB was the other place. Is this the other other place?
FB is the other place where my parents are and I haven't decided to horrify them with this yet.
I can't wait to see the version with the shading and color and swelling.
It looks a lot better with the shading, but I think she did a fantastic job with all of it and really understood what I wanted. Plus at the end she said she'd aimed for an etching look, so now I have a built-in pickup line.
I won't do FB but I'll consider the other other place. Be nice to post some pics of Arrakis and such.
You can make it private or friends-only, Barry, if you decide to.
70 -that. Standards are slipping here.
Speaking of slipping standards here Josh Marshall accidentally and repentantly posted porn on his twitter feed and it went unremarked here.
My FB feed is very pleased with the prime factorization of 2017.
71 repentantly s/b unrepentantly.
71 was pretty amazing. His eventual response was great.
This is beyond cheesy and I'm not sure if it will actually work, but I just split the year into six-week chunks after thinking about some things I think will be achievable in the next six weeks. If we get a two-week break for Spring Break and a two-week break at the end of December, the rest of the year breaks up nicely along lines that follow the school calendar and put each of our birthdays in a separate segment. I think I'm going to try to work with the girls on some goal-setting and I've already laid out what I'd like to get done in the first two segments. Maybe this will make progress more manageable for me.
Some of the (cheesy) bloggers I read do a monthly Small Goals thing. I'm always amazed by the relentless beat of self-improvement to 20-something MC and UMC women. Or maybe I selectively read such bloggers because I remember being that kind of person so clearly. What, I have free leisure time? I must increase my worth as a person.
Since Trump was elected I have been aiming, largely successfully, to do one fun thing every day in order to prevent depression... it's been working pretty well.
I should add that depression = downbeat, nothing clinical.
68: Barry, join the flickr pool!
One fun thing a day sounds like a great idea! And I'm not really trying to be a better person, would just like the house unpacked and functioning. New machines for laundry have already made that better, so things like that where I can throw money at a problem and get it fixed are totally the point.
Walt Someguy predicted that Trump would win and that Hillary would be unmasked as a Russian agent. Pretty close.
78 I'm in the filckr pool though I haven't posted in it for a long time. I should post something soon but also not everyone has access there.
I have some new year resolutions.
At least three exercise sessions a week, with at least one being a cardio session, and at least one a strength session.
Get more sleep.*
Get up to speed with UI programming.**
Learn at least one fast bebop tune to a level where I can play it at speed, and can improvise over it fluently.***
Work on my Czech.
* may not be compatible with meeting any of my other goals.
** I'm strictly backend, or writing web services to provide APIs that other UI-focused people hook into.
*** I can do this on mid-tempo swing style tunes, but can't hold it together on faster more boppish material.
79: it's working well - the only drawback being when I fall behind and start stressing about catching up with my fun objectives. But I've seen a lot of obscure and interesting things.
71 was pretty amazing. His eventual response was great.
What exactly happened? And how do you do something accidentally and unrepentantly?
And how do you do something accidentally and unrepentantly?
"Oh shit! Didn't mean to do that. Never mind, it's hot, isn't it?"
I'll link to his response but the original tweet was supposed to have some political link and instead he'd pasted the link to ("tasteful" lesbian) pron he'd presumably copied for other reasons.
84.5: Do you have migration in mind, if you don't mind me asking?
No resolutions. I'm perfect just the way I am. That, or lazy and overly realistic.
As for Josh Marshall, as best as I can tell, his attitude is, "Why should anyone care if a non-moralizing adult shares porn on Twitter?"
56 that sounds about right.
For what little is worth I am coming up 18 months on my divorce and while the first 6 sucked it is much better now. Still feel a bit undefined but in a mostly good way. Also the paperwork still isn't finished - how surprising.
I had forgotten about the other place!
We're on track to make it under a year from Buck's surprise announcement to legally divorced, which does make me feel all well organized and competent.
Fuck Buck! May he have a shitty 2017!
Are we making New Years resolutions here? I should be phoning it in less at work -- the new job started right when everything was getting disorganized for the holidays, and I haven't really buckled down yet. And figuring out how to cheer up some overall would be good -- I've been doing okay at staying functional, but not quite really managing to enjoy myself much.
92: That is well organized! Where I live makes it harder to file until 1 year + 1 day, which has dragged things out a bit. It's with the court but who knows how long for them to review.
93: absolutely!
Last year around this time I bought myself a couple of season passes for things I liked to,do but told myself I didn't do enough. Both with a free +1. Then I went a lot, which helped with the enjoying myself. Sometimes I'd take someone but would go myself too.
A year seems impressive, LB, and I hope the year after will be much less shitty. The season pass thing is a great idea. I still haven't gone through with any of my plans to get out of the house and do things I enjoy, but maybe someday that will happen. I'm on about Soup Biscuit's timeline from split, except legally things could drag out for another 14 years or resolve themselves tomorrow and it's hard to ever know.
I should do more things like that -- I've been on a couple of dates that, while not thrilling as dates, were good in terms of getting out and going to events.
97: separating some of that stuff from "dates" helped me. And you can make it a proper date whenever that makes sense, too.
I also managed to get a mixed (some coupled some not) group of friends together to go out for dinner once a month or two. Which was nice, to enjoy a meal out without date dynamics or feeling like a third wheel.
It's only a date if it's failure can lower your expectations.
Also, If we are making resolutions, I have nearly 3 years of holidays banked I really should use some of.
101 Do it. Travel is a wonderful tonic for getting over a miserable divorce.
102: I might get 4-5 days to myself this summer. I'm hoping that would do the trick.
My daughter keeps trying to french kiss me. Does this happen to everybody?
I learned many things in 2016, but that one that I think will stick with me is that putting up a sign saying "Sitz Bath" isn't sufficient for some people. You have to add that you shouldn't piss in it.
I also learned a bunch of stuff about white people, but I'm still digesting that.
I also learned, by going past a "bariatric rated" sitz bath, that butts can get very big.
Living in America wasn't enough to teach you that one?
Moby, I hope things get easier with your dad's situation. I've been thinking of you. But not, like, thinking of you in a Sitz bath or anything.
Nobody used the sitz bath. But thanks.
60: I like it! It has a bit of an Arts and Crafts vibe, which is very cool.
And I also like ajay's idea of doing one fun thing every day. But what counts as a fun thing?
114.last Fun, natural fun.
I have nearly 3 years of holidays banked I really should use some of.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply retire? 3 years at full pay would be a great way to start.
The excellence of 5 has been insufficiently acknowledged.
114.2: you are not seriously asking me "captain, please provide me with a rigorous definition of this Earth custom you call `fun'," are you?
I've defined it as something enjoyable, not happening at home and outside normal routine (so cooking, swimming, writing etc don't count, but visiting a gallery or going to the cinema do).
117 is dead on. And the Ajay-Space Babe setup seems to have fun potential itself.
110: Speaking only for myself, I can tell you that us white folks are only occasionally forced to come to grips with how awful white people are. I mean, I try to maintain some kind of awareness, but I learned a lot this election season, too.
116: apologies, that was poorly worded. I meant 3 years worth - i.e. For the past x years I have not taken much holiday, and it is accumulating. Still only amounts to a few months total though.
Happy belated new year, yins! I spent new years in Lucca and am now in Venice for a few days. I hope 2017 is better than 2016, but considering the fallout I'm not sure that's possible.
119:
SCENE 83. INT. SEEDY SPACEPORT BAR. NIGHT.
AJAY: Hey there baby, I've promised myself I'm going to do one fun thing every day and I was just wondering how fun you might be, because today could be your turn.
THING: (burbles unintelligibly)
General Tso's chicken is apparently a dish with regional variation. In Nebraska it is basically sweet and sour chicken.
I would be more upset about the meal but on the same trip I learned that you can name a bakery "Nothing Bundt Cake" and not have it burned out.
2017 prediction: Across the Midwest, Moby will open a chain of restaurants called Tso's Your Mother's Chicken.
That's not a bad idea. Call my hedge fund manager.
If I had one wish, it would be for world peace. If I had two wishes, they would be for the world peace thing and that every building in the world might have a bariatric-rated sitz bath.
If I had three wishes, the third would be for a billion dollars.
Improbably, I was 100% on my, well, not predictions, but ambitions (not quite resolutions): I went to physical therapy and fixed my achey knees, and I rode enough through the winter that I was able to complete a pretty epic 40+ mile ride at the end of March and then ride the Dirty Dozen (13 of the hardest hills in Pgh, including the world's steepest paved road).
I'd already resolved to ride more this winter, but I have a new maybe-goal: a 400k Pgh-Erie-Pgh ride late in May, which is intended as a 1 day ride (should take about 20 hours). Ultra athletics (e.g. 100 mile marathons (or even 26 miles)) have never appealed, but using my bike to cover real distance appeals greatly. We'll see.
132: And will, as God is my witness. But that's more like a vacation than an actual challenge. The only way to make it challenging would be to suck all the pleasure out of it (by riding as many miles/day as possible). But the Erie thing is a challenge on its own, because it's on open roads (and an event with others).
Apparently, I look like authority to random old people.
The woman with the stethoscope is the nurse. If she sets it down, she becomes an aide.
118.1: Yes, of course I was serious, and I thank you for the rigorous definition of your strange and interesting Earth custom.
But seriously, I was curious about what sort of investment (in terms of time and energy and so on) was required in order to meet the threshold of 'fun.' And now that you've defined it, I have to say that it does sound a tad ambitious, and perhaps more than a little bit time-consuming:
I've defined it as something enjoyable, not at home and outside normal routine (so cooking, swimming, writing etc don't count, but visiting a gallery or going to the cinema do).
That sounds very weekend-y to me. But if you can keep this up on a daily basis, more power to you.
136: well, a) I work in the centre of town, so there are plenty of things that qualify as fun which I can do in my lunch break or after work, nipping into a gallery for half an hour or whatever, and b) "meeting friends" also qualifies as a fun thing, so quite a lot of my fun quota is met simply by virtue of having a social life.
so quite a lot of my fun quota is met simply by virtue of having a social life.
No bragging.
but considering the fallout I'm not sure that's possible.
Shit, did they start the nuclear war already? He hasn't even been sworn in!
He doesn't quite seem to realize that.
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