So with everyone wrapping up with a focus on the decade that's yet-to-be named (no "me"-decade as much as a "Generation OMG" or if you're over 30, the "I'm Still here-read my tweets!!!" decade). It is, as Carrie Fisher described in an interview "googling yourself w/out lubicrant" - we're self-obsessed and self-promoting, so this is the decade where everyone has a medium of some kind where they go and "address their public" or "the haters....
it's been surprising that I've managed to hold onto this blog for nearly 10 yrs (having lapsed only once to the dark recesses of Livejournal between 2005-2006). Like all things, I tend to go emphatically for a few months, lose the momentum due to real-time issues (aka - "real life"), so I won't do what alot of bloggers are doing in a "best of" because technically - this isn't a 10yr anniversary. However, I will highlight my own milestones this year (if it's any interest):
- Started this blog and proceeded to join every single social app that was ever marketed to me in an attempt to get me to connect, sell, hookup, or just say a random hello. However, as of this date - I have not tweeted once.
- I have had a dichotomy of work technology (all PC) and home/pleasure (all MAC). This year, I buy an iPhone and bridge the two - I get work email on my phone and have become 'one of those people'.
- Traveled to 2 major continents - Asia (JP) and Europe (UK, DE), went to NY, Chicago, LA a few times.
- Watched the twin towers fall on TV - visited ground zero a year later. Still wondering why we've this paranoid nation of PTSD officials using it to justify everything from wars to wiretapping.
- Inspired by Stephen Merritt - start a band w/my friend Lyle. Doesn't quite take off. But it was fun.
- I buy a condo during the "bubble" and have knocked on all wooden surfaces for good equity at some point down the line.
- I see Seattle boom, bust, boom again. I see Broadway go vacant, Pike/Pine go hetero, 12th street go yuppie. I see the Pine/Belmont block implode but not until a 5 month party of decadence makes it mark (and smart bars like Pony and Bus Stop return). I see Ballard become hip, Georgetown and Columbia City places I want to visit more than Capitol Hill.
- I see my own hometown become more cosmopolitan - almost in a strange capraesque nightmare, but also in some progressive areas as well.
- After years of being a skinny minnie my metabolism kicks in somewhere in early naughties, I gain 20 lbs of post-relationship/beer weight and in 2006 make an attempt to reclaim my youth. I slim down to 150 with 8% body fat.
- I also use bicycling as a means to both relieve stress and acheive said body weight goal.
- I returned to my theatrical roots and started doing crazy, exhibitionist things like this.
- I still marvel that we don't have flying cars and we're not colonizing mars like they did in the 2010 of Blade Runner. That said I still do suspect we're living with robots who emote better than we do.
