Friday, I had to work but enough about that. Scrappy and I had dinner at Gnat's Landing on Baxter Street. We had been there a couple of times with my dad and step-mom and it is really good. The theme is Georgia coast/St. Simon's and they serve seafood and burgers and that type of thing. The sweet potato fries are Scrappy's favorite.
Saturday, we ran errands including the exchange of ill-fitting clothing for new towels. We also watched the entire first season of "Mad Men" over Saturday and Sunday. The other weekend, it was "True Blood". It's so much easier to watch TV on DVD and the Internet.
While we were out and about, Scrappy kept checking the iPhone for the news of the new Doctor Who. Matt Smith is a surprising choice, but I guess I will keep an open mind until 2010.
Sunday, was the annual meeting of the Spynotebook Planning Committee. This year we met at the IHOP and discussed the things we needed to do this year. Some suggested races and I suggested board games. I am sure that Scrappy or Jocelyn will post a full list soon.
To kick the year off right, Jocelyn suggested we play the "Grey's Anatomy" trivia board game she got for Christmas.
I learned a valuable lesson about just how little I know about "Grey's Anatomy".
Tera made lasagna and we got her twitter all working again.
I had the idea the other day that I should choose one friend of mine each week and do a sort of "Friend Spotlight" for lack of a better term. As I was mulling this over, Scooley invited me to get some coffee so without any thought or planning, I grabbed my Flip Mino and shoved it into my bag, in case I decided to "interview" her for my blog.
I think that this idea will develop over the next few weeks. I don't always promise video but I'll see what I can do. With Skype and iChat these days, I can probably throw something together for those people who are farther away.
The whole "interview" is about 9 minutes long but Scrappy reminded me how the internet works so I am going to try and post a shorter version also whenever I do video. I will probably set this up as a podcast also. Maybe on the Facebook also depending on the friend.
Since it is MY BLOG, it is tentatively titled "Let's Talk About Me" but the focus groups are still mulling things over.
Selected Mentions of Scooley in Chip's Spynotebook:
- Earliest I Can Locate: We had drinks in April of 2000.
- We ate at Parson's the last night it was open.
- Watched some TV in 2003
If you have any interest in being featured, send me a message!
51 friends to go!
After watching Carrieoke post her daily self-portraits last year, I had been thinking about doing the picture a day thing for 2009. I decided to join the 365 Days 2009 group on Flickr as well as adding them to my own set.
Even though I will be adding photos to Flickr each day, I am only planning to post them to the blog in weekly batches. Here are Days 1, 2, and 3.
365.1 : New Year's Day at Ron and Susan's
365.2 : Working too early in the year
365.3 : Scrappy wants a puppy
I just installed Facebook Connect for Movable Type which should allow people signed into Facebook to leave comments on my blog. Let's see if it works.
Not counting floppy comic books, I read the following books last year.
- The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel - Sheridan Hay
- Opening Atlantis - Harry Turtledove
- The Accidental Time Machine - Joe Haldeman
- The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book - Frank Warren
- Moon Called (Mercedes Thompson, Book #1) - Patricia Briggs
- Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
- Re-Gifters - Mike Carey, Marc Hempel, Sonny Liew
- Halting State - Charles Stross
- I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle
- Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) - Stephenie Meyer
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World - Bryan Lee O'Malley
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness - Bryan Lee O'Malley
- Scott Pilgrim Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together - Bryan Lee O'Malley
- New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) - Stephenie Meyer
- Life Sucks - Jessica Abel, Warren Pleece, Gabe Soria
- The Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar
- Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) - Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) - Stephenie Meyer
- Podkayne of Mars - Robert A. Heinlein
- Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman
- Rolling Thunder - John Varley
- Flashforward - Robert J. Sawyer
- Anathem - Neal Stephenson
- Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life - Bryan Lee O'Malley
To be honest, I can't remember if I read The Ghost Map in 2008 or 2007, but let's go ahead and count it.
The Twilight series kind of dominated my reading list this year. They were fun to read and talk about but much more fun to complain about. And man, that Book 4 is all kinds of messed up. Also with the fun were the Bryan Lee O'Malley Scott Pilgrim graphic novels.
Anathem would not really be called a "fun" book but it was probably my top book for 2008. It took me about 100 pages to really get into it but by then it was pretty hard to put down. It was one of the rare times that I had no idea what the book was even about when I started reading it and I was surprised several times at the direction it took.
Work calls. More about stuff later.
Goals:
- get back on the pre-wedding health kick
- organize/streamline my online life
- get rid of crap
- save/make money
If you are reading this on Facebook, sometimes the embedded videos and pictures and such don't work, so visit http://www.spynotebook.org/chip every once in a while.
Here is a brief update on what has been going on:
We celebrated Christmas with my family in town and then went up to Colonial Williamsburg with Beth's parents and lots and lots of other people. It ended up being a lot more crowded than I thought it would be, but we had a good time (and went on a ghost tour).
Last night we hung out with Veronica and Sarah and did things up Jane Austen style. Not my first choice of New Year's Eve action but it was pretty fun.
We had syllabub, cottage pie, mince pies, and played British Trivia Challenge.
The only troubling thing is that tomorrow is January 2 and I HAVE TO GO TO WORK.
How has this happened? I had big plans to implement before the end of the year. I mean, I still have 24.5 hours but I plan on sleeping for at least 5 of those.
I will be somewhere with cable tomorrow, but it is nice to know that if I was at home, Hulu will have live coverage for New Year's Eve.
Still formulating some resolutions. More on that later.
Merry Christmas and all of that.
Beth and I have completed 2/3 of our Christmas already and should be completing it later today. Our presents for our families did not come in time due to some shipping issues but they will make a nice New Year's gift also.
I am in the process of (in my head) re-designing Spynotebook, my blog, and other webby ventures I am involved with. So, hopefully by the 2009, I will start blogging again on a regular basis.
Until then, there is always Hulu.
What I Twittered Yesterday
- 08:06 What year was this policy written?If you need personal access "you can subscribe to a private service such as America Online or CompuServe."
- 09:38 testing out Gmail's new Task Manager/To-Do list. You can turn it on under the Labs tab.
- 10:49 my offices smells like chalk
- 14:46 is playing trivia at Loco's tonight.
- 14:52 @farcepest timothy road loco's is pretty good about everyone playing fair.
- 20:22 waiting for my trivia team to show up. just me at a table for 7.
What I Twittered Yesterday
- 15:21 the worst part about not working at my old job this christmas? no CDW christmas cookies.
- 22:44 @spleener if plex would do hulu and netflix like boxee, I would be very happy.
What I Twittered Yesterday
- 17:18 wanting to redesign spynotebook soon. looking at facebook connect and google connect and trying to assess which is better for us.
- 19:50 Our house smells like lasagna.
What I Twittered Yesterday
- 20:14 is full from homemade pizza but still looking forward to Scrappy's 7 Layer Bars. Watching Eastenders.
What I Twittered Yesterday
- 06:37 do you think it sparkles in the sunlight? www.wizarduniverse.com/dec084728.html
- 08:02 google reader looks different again. just enough to bother me without any added functionality (that I can see yet).
- 13:31 O.J. finally doing some prison time.
- 15:14 is inactivated really a word? twitpic.com/qe9k
- 16:10 if you want blurry christmas parade photos... here they are... is.gd/aoLp
- 16:39 @kristydixon no kidding. i feel like it has been almost time to leave for the last 6 hours.
