Year 2

so this is the new year…

i hope everyone had a good new years and i hope everyone is enjoying the first few days of ‘07 (i did and i am respectively).

this is actually quite a momentous occasion for my blog. for those of you keeping count, this is my 100th post (cue whistles, bells, confetti, horns, etc.).

this blog began a little over one year ago now in December 05, and i have to admit i’m slightly surprised that i have managed to maintain it with (relatively) frequent consistency throughout the past year (i.e. enough to equal 100 posts, or 1 every 3.68 days or so).

hopefully, this coming year will bring more blog worthy topics to discuss as well as numerous anecdotes to entertain you all. i suppose i might even to be so bold as to suggest, that perhaps i may even increase the frequency with which i post (maybe getting it down to 1 every 3.5 days or something).

of course, there are forces conspiring to prevent this all from occurring. and i must face the prospect that a) i will not only be unable to achieve the maintaining of this blog for the entire year but b) i might be dead before the year is out.

now, let me assure you, my legions of adoring readers, i have no plans to die in the coming year and i promise that nothing short of death (or perhaps serious incapacitation) will stop me from blogging.

however, word has come that 2007 may bring with it death to us infidels in the form of mass killings through terrorist attacks…or at least so sayeth pat robertson

that’s right. apparently god and pat recently had a chat, and god informed pat that the later days of 2007 will be marred by a major terrorist attack, affecting millions of americans in major cities.

“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” Mr. Robertson said. “The lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”

wow.

first off, i’d like to say that this is a downer. not exactly the way i had envisioned starting things off in ‘07 (or ending things either, i suppose).

obviously some questions immediately come to mind:
1. do terrorists consider la to be a major city?
2. would downtown be the most likely target for any attack on la?
3. do i live far enough from downtown to survive said attack if it were of the nuclear variety.

undoubtedly, the answer to the first question would be yes. presumably, there would be a yes to the second question as well. as to the third, i’m not sure — though my initial guess would be in the words of the magic 8 ball - outcome not so good.

so, i suppose this puts a serious kink into any future plans for 2008 and beyond…but, i guess what it also does is help to give me a new sense of purpose to ‘07.

maybe, now more so than ever, there is the need to approach each day with the vigor and appreciation that it might be one of the last. to understand and embrace the fact that life is a gift not to be wasted or squandered.

in some ways this blog…year 2…could end up being the final, lasting testament to my life, my accomplishments (or lack thereof), and to how i lived knowing that mass killings were mere months away.

presumably, this should make for a much more interesting blog this year…as i will hopefully get out and live a life with greater adherence to the above mentioned principles (which would then transitively provide more interesting things to blog/read about).

then again, i suppose there’s the chance that 2007 will just be more of the same for me. more sitting around watching lots of television and films, spending the majority of my time at the computer writing, going out occassionally, if at all, and blogging about things that really aren’t that amazing to begin with (albeit in an entertaining and enjoyable manner).

maybe i’ll just continue to live my life exactly as i have been the past 27+ years or so. maybe, i won’t let the terrorists and their impending attacks affect how i go about my existence, and perhaps this will be my final lasting memory.

how in the face of death, i laughed at the terrorists and said - i like being lazy and not going out and doing too much, and fuck you if you think that i’m gonna radically change how i live just because you’re going to be killing millions of us (potentially including me) later this year.

then again, i suppose there’s the chance that god didn’t speak to pat robertson.

i guess we’ll find out…