Found this article, 100 Skills Everyone Should Master

I feel like I am on a good path because I feel like I’ve mastered almost all those skills. Here are the ones where I am lacking:

38. Drive a stick (Took lessons but since I don’t have one, I can’t remember)
42. Make a new friend (Hiya Audra and Erin! Same two since school)
44. Change a tire and put on snow chains (I think I might be able to figure it out but haven’t had to do so yet)
49. Simple mending (I can bumble my way through it but I should be better at sewing on buttons)
68. Know a second language (At least I have some German under my belt, regardless it is horrendous)
70. Write a quality love letter. (Again, never had to do it, so maybe I’d surprise myself)
86. Tie basic knots. (The only knot I know is how to tie a Karate belt)
88. Build a campfire (I might surprise myself here but I’ve never had to do it so who knows)

Bonus
Keep your living space clean (Yeah, this is my big FAIL! Although I came upon an idea yesterday. I always believed in a past life I was a gazelle because a palm reader told me I had been an animal who ran very fast. I am really beginning to think I was actually a bird and this mess that crops up around me is my desire to build a nest).

So what do you think about the 100 Skills list? Would you add anything to it? How did you do?

I watched The Hangover the other day and got a kick out of it. I recommended it to my mom and Lisa. They picked it up at the local Red Box, watched it, and declared it wasn’t nearly as good as I promised. I think you need to watch it in the company of men and their laughter and snorts will make it seem funnier than it actually is.

Speaking of hangover, I have a tiny one from the cheap wine last night. I think it’s because I didn’t eat anything substantive prior to drinking the wine. Chocolate Chip Cookies aren’t a good base for alcohol it seems. I feel like crap and why people would put themselves through this on a regular basis is beyond me. Of course I suppose when other people get tipsy they do more exciting things than watch silly cult tv shows from the 90s and blog about it. So maybe it’s worth it for them. I dunno. It doesn’t seem worth it to me.

Tomorrow my computer arrives. I can hardly wait. I tried to persuade Tom to bring it over yesterday and like a good man, he ignored my pleas, cries, snot dripping from my nose, “PLEASE TOM I NEED IT! I NEED IT NOW!”. That means tomorrow I will be cradling my new baby!

I am trying to remember my past computers. I’ve always named them HAL. Lisa names her’s D.A.R.Y.L. I think this is what I’ve owned (dates are estimates):

386 Laptop with monochrome screen & 500 megs of Hard Drive space- HAL (1993 -1996)
Pentium desktop – HAL 2 (1996 -2000)
Winbook – HAL 3 (2000 – 2003)
Hulking Toshiba- HAL 4 (2003 – 2006)
Tiny HP Pavilion (current) – HAL 5 (2006 – 2009)

Prior to my first laptop, as a family, we had a VIC 20, a Commodore 64, an Amiga 2000 and then an assortment of PCs.

My hope is that with this desktop I will stop the 3 year laptop cycle I’ve been on for the past 17 years. I want some permanency. Even if it turns into Frankenstein. And I figure once this laptop truly bites the dust, I can go the netbook route.

Guys! I just drank two glasses of 3 buck chuck and I am like totally loaded and all I want to do is watch Forever Knight and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues episodes! Unfortunately all I have on DVD is Forever Knight– well that’s actually a fortunate thing! It’s unfortunate that my Kung Fu episodes are on VHS… or Beta. Whatever. I just watched my favorite episode of Forever Knight, Night in Question. I watched it back in 2006 and thought it was silly and I was totally unmoved by it but now totally loaded on cheap red wine, I am thrilled by it and loving every sick second of it. It’s the episode Nick loses his memory and forgets he is a vampire and so LaCroix (MASTER EFFING VAMPIRE) comes to his still awesome apartment and hints at Nick’s vampirism and Dr Natalie Lambert is all, “You don’t have to believe him, Nick!” But Nick knows all he wants to do is suck blood and eventually he GOES BACK TO LACROIX! I can’t figure out what it is about this stupid stupid show that I totally love even almost 20 years after it originally aired! Here’s the thing… I MISS IT! I miss having a TV show that I love! I watch no tv. Except mythbusters, dirty jobs and those crab fishermen in alaska. But only sometimes. More times than not I am just on the computer putzing. I wish I could look forward to watching something– I looked forward to ally macbeal. I waited anxiously for the x-files. I loved La Femme Nikita although that happened after it went off the air. Can’t there be a show that moves me? Can’t they bring back the highander? I LOVED LOVED LOVED the highlander! Or Time Trax? I mean, what the hell is Dale Midkiff doing anyway? If I were him, I’d probably just watch Elvis and Me over and over again and marvel at my thighs. Yeah, two glasses— it’s all that it takes. Maybe Peter is right, maybe I need to gain more weight. Hey remember that show about the group of kids that shift through time with the fat kid from Stand by me? What was the name of that show? I gotta pee.

Ole Pavlina didn’t disappoint. His New Year’s blog post in which he discusses his upcoming goals for the year, well he said he’s going to be exploring BDSM. It’s funny how he is slowly desensitizing me. This admission would have shocked me last year. But this year I am all like, “That crazy Steve! This will be interesting!”

Last year I didn’t make any resolutions, or if I did I didn’t write them in a blog post so I can’t review how well I did so I will just be putting out my goals for this upcoming year. I want you all to know, exploring BDSM will not be one of them. I am still trying to get my thoughts together. In fact, I may be getting my thoughts together from last year as well. Must concentrate harder….