Yawn
Well, the annual happening happened. The year ended. Who'd a thunk it?
I've never been a huge hand at holidays. I'd pretty much got over even
birthdays about the time I learned about Santa you-know who. It
coincided with getting really sick. A kid in my class was having a
birthday and Mom got him Tinker Toys. I said I was sick and was
accused of not wanting to go because I wanted the present. That was
only partially true. I ended up being kept alive on Penicillin long
enough for my grandparents to drag me to a warm climate. Not to
worry; I lived; I was even recovered by the time we got there.
So, after the turkey dinner, I begin shuddering on again hearing “Grandma
got run over by a Reindeer” and that shuddering continues right
up to now.
The year end is among the worst. Everybody comes up with horrid
resolutions that they won't keep but does broadcast their frailties.
Media has to recap events that were either mega horrid or boring on
the first pass. Then they throw in all the recently dead to liven the party.
It was bad enough when all this could be fled from with the clicker or
buttons under the radio. Now, it permeates the net and blogdom. My
RSS feed is like a record with a bad spot that play over and over.
The overweight are competing and repeating contrasted by the overly
grateful.
Poker News serialized their various lists of things we already knew to draw
out the pain. Michael Craig continued to define the Me Generation in
blogging with a recap of the same. And Oppie Brad provided excellent writing on our envy of his pluperfect American dream.
Alone, all this is survivable. But the aggregate turns the real world into
Groundhog's Day squared by the Intertube.
Bahh! Humbug!
Well, with this behind us we can look forward to spring. I'm already being
inundated with seed catalogs. That'll be the new Grandma-Reindeer
type of event that'll keep running through my head until I see the
first robin.
ADDENDUM:
Well, I manage to kludge my way into the right font but munged the line formatting in the process. Today, they provided yet another update to WordPress. I keep installing them -- not knowing when to leave well-enough alone. Fingers crossed....
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