{"id":302,"date":"2008-01-02T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/the-2008-list-installment-one-302"},"modified":"2008-01-02T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:17:57","slug":"the-2008-list-installment-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/the-2008-list-installment-one-302","title":{"rendered":"The 2008 List &#8211; Installment One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: the 2008 list has\u00a0been broken out\u00a0into its\u00a0very own <a href=\"\/mwp\/the-2008-list\/\" title=\"The 2008 List\">page<\/a>&#8230;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Big Carter (as in, not my son-to-be, but rather the fully-growed&#8217;n with whom I&#8217;m sometimes known to hang) told me that if I posted some top-10 lists my blawg would get all crazy busy with folks who like things like that, and that I would forever be remembered as a cultural icon and not just the guy\u00a0who egged a bunch of his school-mates 20 years ago for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s usually wrong about that kind of stuff, though, and I&#8217;m not going to listen to him. So instead of spewing my top 10 favorite things about 2007 (most of which I would have probably made up anyway), I&#8217;m just going to forget about last year and start a new happy\/sad list to weigh this new one. I&#8217;ll probably lose interest in it eventually, but my plan right now is to keep adding to it until, next December 31st, I&#8217;ll have clear evidence of whether 2008 was really worth the hassle. Why? Cause I&#8217;m all about hope and expectation, that&#8217;s why. A sad 2008 would make me hopeful for a happy 2009, and that would make me happy.\u00a0A happy 2008 would make me expect a happy 2009, and that would also make me happy. Not being able to remember much about 2008 would make me sad, though, and I probably won&#8217;t be able to remember what I don&#8217;t write down.<\/p>\n<p>Happies in 2008:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our good friends Carter and Adeline helped us celebrate New Year&#8217;s Eve, and were still there making us laugh for the first hour or so\u00a0of 2008.<\/li>\n<li>My unborn son turned head-down right on schedule, and is still a healthy and active little person. Lynn and I have gained new insights into his behavior, and are more amazed than ever that we&#8217;ve been blessed with such a miracle.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t have to\u00a0look for a job during the\u00a0slimmest time of the\u00a0year for choices\u00a0of technical openings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sads in 2008:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was sick on\u00a0our 12th anniversary and\u00a0caused us\u00a0to delay our romantic dinner out. I really hated doing that to Lynn, and it was a much worse feeling than the crappy whateverits running their course through my sickly body.<\/li>\n<li>While I was moving my stuff to the cheaper plan of theirs I just signed up for, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pair.com\" title=\"pair Networks\">Pair Networks<\/a>\u00a0charged me an outrageous overusage fee for disk space. It was affordable, but\u00a0getting fined 3 times what I pay in a month for service for my <strong>first ever<\/strong> infraction just made me absolutely nutsy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess the happies outweigh the sads by a pretty good margin right now. I&#8217;ll just hope that trend lasts!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: the 2008 list has\u00a0been broken out\u00a0into its\u00a0very own <\/strong><a href=\"\/mwp\/the-2008-list\/\" title=\"The 2008 List\"><strong>page<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8230;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: the 2008 list has\u00a0been broken out\u00a0into its\u00a0very own page&#8230;\u00a0 Big Carter (as in, not my son-to-be, but rather the fully-growed&#8217;n with whom I&#8217;m sometimes known to hang) told me that if I posted some top-10 lists my blawg would get all crazy busy with folks who like things like that, and that I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}