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Ah, my last meal of 2007. I opted for an ultimate sandwich and it was most tasty. So good was it that I may well have another one I’ll certainly be having one for luncheon tomorrow (although my first meal of 2008 is likely to be my morning bowl of Alpen).

Well, 7 and a bit hours to go until the end of the Gregorian calender year of 2007. Let’s have a brief review (as seems to be the rage at this time of the year on blogs):

2007 sucked.

Brutally.

And not just for me either. It’s been a year of death, divorce, dumpings, and a whole host of other things beginning with D. (For those of you looking through the archives I didn’t blog about most of the really crap stuff as, contrary to the evidence presented, I don’t blog about everything )

Still, on the bright side I have a nice new house, shiny new toys to put in said house, a whole host of new friends and, for the first time since the dawn of the internet, a website that I’ve actually kept maintained for longer than about a month which is always good. I’ve also managed to live within my income this year (well, OK, an income that’s been heavily supplemented from external sources, but hopefully I wont have to buy and furnish a new house in 2008) and I’m actually in a much better state financially that I was last year (no girlies going to be getting their hands on this house, I can tell you ).

I don’t do new years resolutions (the only one I ever kept was the one to not make any more which has been going strong for 12 years now ) but I do have some goals for next year:

• I’d like to give this company something like £4,000 to custom build me a proper left handed, folded blade katana. This is very dependent on if I get a bonus or not this year (unlikely) or me being able to not spend enough during the year to save the money (even less likely) but it’s good to have goals.
• I’d like to not end up in the back of an ambulance or in A&E this year. This one should be easier since I now keep a stock of the drugs that A&E give me on my person at all times so I can just bypass the NHS bit and go straight to the private health care bit. Would be nice not to need that either.
• I’d like to start doing photography again. I’ve not really done any in the past 6 months. Hopefully in the spring I should have a bike so I can take my camera out into the countryside round here and take some spring time shots.
• I’d like to finish my house (OK, OK, flat - you guys are so picky ) off. Not much left to do, just need to get a new desk for the spare room, custom made thing for the en-suit (which really requires me to get the designs to bathgirl since she knows people who can make it for me), new lights (which knowing me are going to be expensive), new hob (my one sucks almost as much as this year has - I’ll get that and the lights fitted at the same time by an electrician), kitchen tiled (friend has said he’ll help out there) and the flat could do with a proper coat of paint.

Nothing overly ambitious, I know, but I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I do fairly regular exercise, I eat pretty well and any other ‘big’ changes are just not going to happen at this stage in my life. Besides, setting lofty goals that I can’t hit is just a bit pointless

Yay, I’ve sold out and this site has now gone commercial in… well, quite a small, discreet way actually Anyway, my rewards are based on sales, not on click throughs so follow the links then go nuts and buy everything You’ll also notice I’ve finally got blogrolls working (woo) and changed the side bar around a bit. Login stuff is now nice and easy to find at the top and the meta information is all annoying and flashy

Mass Effect, a game I’ve recently bought, caused a whole load of uproar in some countries due to the fact that it contained an interspecies lesbian kiss (a human and an alien female kissing, assuming you played a human female). Having just completed the game I’m a little miffed that I missed out on that bit. Hey well, next time I play it through

You can’t get away from the PC brigade these days. Sex, race, creed, religion, age, you name it, you discriminate it and you’ll be hounded until the ends of the earth. Except for one thing: handism. Handism is rife in the world today and people are doing nothing to stop it. Just look at all the ‘ergonomic’ mice that you can buy for computers. They’re really comfy if you’re right handed. Us poor southpaws have to suffer and pick from a much limited choice, or use an ambidextrous mouse (thankfully the gaming mice I use are ambidextrous and also happen to be, IMHO, the best mice in the world), and that’s just one tiny part of one aspect of life. Won’t people stand up for our rights (or lefts, as they should be)?

Like the llama song, but about daleks

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And of course, the ubiquitous badger, badger, badger (a meme that should never be allowed to die). If you fancy a challenge then toddle over to the website and see just how long you can listen to it for before going totally insane

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Here’s a llama, there’s a llama, and another little llama (origonal can be found here), but here is a naff youtube version of it:

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There now follows a series of ‘oldies but goldies’ to help pass the time

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Ah, the non days between Christmas and New Year, so full of… ‘meh‘ (really, that’s the best word for it). Everyone is waiting for the year to end and the promise of the new year. It’s as if they expect Tuesday to dawn , the camera to pan back over some pristine utopia version of wherever it is you live with this as the sound track.

Lovely idea isn’t it? It’s also a complete crock. I get the need for people to mark the passage of time but we do pick some odd occasions: “Woohoo, it’s midnight, the planet has traveled from one totally arbitrary point to another one 99.930% of the way round the sun“. Leap years are slightly different, now we’re celebrating the exact moment that the earth has gone round the sun once from some arbitrary point and then gone another .204% of the way round (gotta love being a geek ).

Celebrating the end of the calender doesn’t really work for me either. Why don’t we mark the end of each month with some lesser festivities? (When I’m dating people I do actually mark lunniversaries as well as anniversaries, but then I could just be sad ). Why not celebrate the moment when the days start getting longer again? (6:08am last Saturday morning in case you weren’t looking). Regardless, we get all expectant, count down the seconds when the time comes close, proclaim ‘Happy New Year!’ and… then what?

Nothing changes people!

Much as I’d love to wake up to my movie start to the year (and I do quite often listen to that particular song on my way to the station as it’s good for putting you in a good mood and getting you geared up for the day) I suspect my first morning in 2008 will be summed up by this. Why? Because that’s what sums everything up now and I really don’t expect anything to change in however many days it is until the 1st.

Still, since we’re time bucketing things the way we are lets hope that everyone’s 2008 sucks less than my 2007 (or indeed my brothers 2007, bathgirls 2007, and too many other people to mentions 2007). Enjoy your non days until then, I know I’ll be making full use of the fact that it’s 3 days of very little work and a lot of play resplendent with a lazy weekend