Doc’s Year In Review
(copied from nrivkis)
1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before?
Visited the Amish area of southwestern Indiana
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope
5. What countries did you visit?
Just my own
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Huge piles of money
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 29th, when I turned 50
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Once again finding the strength within me to NOT strangle every right wing fundamentalist neocon I encountered
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not getting more writing done
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Colds, leg infections
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Presents for my Sweet Angel
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My wife’s, because she loves me despite my shortcomings
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The 51% of the populace that reelected that asshole Bush
14. Where did most of your money go?
Mortgage and bills
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Hmmm…nothing that I can think of
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Can’t think of any
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
Happier
b) thinner or fatter?
Pretty much exactly the same weight
c) richer or poorer?
Richer, but only on paper
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Writing and travelling
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Working
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
At home with Grace and Roscoe
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
I guess my wife…maybe 5 minutes a day
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Nope, cos I never fell out of love
23. How many one-night stands?
None
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Good Eats
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Only the neocons
26. What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix…come to think of it, it was the ONLY fiction I recall reading
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That after all these years, rap music still sucks ass
28. What did you want and get?
Another year with Grace
29. What did you want and not get?
A cure for psoriasis….large piles of money….very large piles of dead neocons
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Spider-man 2
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Didn’t do much. I was 50
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
See question 29 above
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
The same as it was in 1994, 1984, 1974 and 1964: Jeans and T-shirts
34. What kept you sane?
Who told you I was sane?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Jennifer Connelly
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The continued rise of the neocon scum
37. Who did you miss?
My dad. It has been 20 years since he died and I still miss him
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Beats the hell outta me…probably a baby
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
No matter how well you plan in advance, sooner or later you’ll have a vacation that sucks ass
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“You’re never too old to rock and roll if you’re too young to die” From “Too Old To Rock And Roll, Too Young To Die” by Jethro Tull
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