Someday our dog will understand about the people who live inside the computer.

He was VERY excited to talk to my Mom and Keith on Skype.

I didn’t read as much last year as in the past. I blame TV and several boring books that I just never finished. Looking at the list, the Charlaine Harris “Sookie Stackhouse” seem to dominate 2009.

• Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris
• The United States of Atlantis (Atlantis, #2) by Harry Turtledove
• Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
• Inside Straight by George R.R. Martin
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) by Charlaine Harris
• Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) by Charlaine Harris
• Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5) by Charlaine Harris
• Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) by Charlaine Harris
• All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) by Charlaine Harris
• From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8) by Charlaine Harris
• Lost At Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Superpowers: A Novel by David J. Schwartz
• Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9) by Charlaine Harris
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (the graphic novel)
• The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins
• The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way
• Catching Fire (Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

More reading in the 2010. That seems to be a resolution that I can get behind.

Unshaven, originally uploaded by Chip.

Oh yeah….

totally didn’t accomplish my 365 self portraits in 2009.

Maybe I’ll try again next year.

The year is coming a close. Not the decade, mind you, but the year. But, much like 10 years ago, there is really something about that 9 turning into a 0 that really gets everyone all excited and stuff. So, I’ll play along.

What was I doing 10 years ago?

I was …
living at Grady Avenue with Wendy.
working at Athens Academy trying to get the internet working.
buying Capri Suns and glitter fruit rollups for a Y2K party.
complaining that Starbucks came to Athens.
bragging on my $800, 20-hour ReplayTV.
taking pictures with my Poloroid I-Zone sticker camera.
drinking at the properly located Lunch Paper.

Man, but we were all about the future back then and a lot of it still hasn’t happened yet.

It is fucking 2010 almost and we *still* don’t have bubble cars or the unitarded triumvirate of white haired old men leading us.

Well, they haven’t *revealed* themselves, anyway.

I may start working on some “Best of the Decade” lists, but in reality, I’ll probably just continue not to blog.

Just read on twitter that Vic Chesnutt just passed away earlier today.

This may or may not be true according to Online Athens.

While Scrappy was finishing up some sewing, I decided to take Swiffer to play in Memorial Park.
Here we learned a valuable lesson.

If you spend the afternoon doing this:

It will probably lead to this:

Please make sure to check out our Christmas 2009 page at bethandchip.com/christmas-2009/

It’s tacky.

This is the self-portrait of me on my Mom’s wall.

Please note two items:

1. My sweet digital watch:

2. My awesome “Mork from Ork” t-shirt:

This came in the mail today.

I am incredibly curious how these people got my name and more importantly how they know it will soon be my birthday.

But the very most important question is can I get them ALL on the same day?

Rain rain go away.

I actually really like the rain but having the Swiffer does make it a bit annoying. You see, one of the best things about having a dog instead of say, a baby, is that you can stick him outside to take care of his business. Unless you have a sissy dog who won’t walk through the “waterfall” of tiny drips that separate our back steps from our backyard. He is fine when he gets past it, but he acts like I am sending him through Victoria Falls or something.

So, Beth reminds me that I never blog. As you can see from my lifestream, I am pretty much online all the time, I am just more with the twittering than the blogging. I’ll try and be better.

It’s about time for trivia. I’ll let you know how we do!