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Happy Birthday

...to this blog. I have been writing this thing for a year now. A year. Let's recap what has happened in the past year:

It all started with A-girl. There were certain forces inside of the company I was working for who were pushing me towards her. She is a "pretty girl" who came back to that company on my last day there. Ultimately it didn't work out because I reminded her of her brother. Ew.

Then it was about L-girl. She and I worked pretty closely together. We had lunch just this past week. Ultimately it won't work out because I'm AfricanaAmericanmerican descent.

DubDub came next -- or really first. I don't know. I could fill a whole blog with nothing but stories about her.

Next, I think I was trying to signal a change... or a maybe the need for a change.

Then I got into seeing a lot of movies. Throughout the first year of this blog you'll see a few movie reviews.

I turned a year older.

I noticed (looking back through them) that a lot of my entries dealt with women and one level or another.

I made some lists.

I seemed to have a lot of my perception changed. I think I came to realize that I don't know all the things I think I know.

The obvious: I left a job that I worked for almost 17 years.

Superman closed his game store down.

The Olympics happened.

I did quite a bit of venting.

I finished reading a book.

Okay, so this is not the greatest collection of words in the history of mankind but it does paint an interesting picture of me. At least I think it's interesting and that's all that is important when keeping up with a blog. I can't tell you how many blogs I've seen collapse because the writer thought no one was reading. I say: "So what?". What does it change that no one is reading what you've written. You know that YOU are and that should be the only motivating factor in writing a blog.

I think it's clear at this point that I probably won't take the 7 risks I set up for myself. Who cares? I promised it to myself. It's a check I don't have to cash. I took some risks this year and if I put my mind to it I could probably point out examples. Basically, what I'm saying is that we take risks every day. Just driving to work can be a risk.

One day last week I was talking to DubDub on the way home from work and a rock hit my windshield. Put a nice tennis-ball sized ding in the corner of the windshield. Scared the living crap out of me. Sounded like a small caliber gun going off inside my car. It doesn't seem to have expanded any but I'll have to replace my windshield eventually.

There are no words to sum up what has happened to me over the past year. There are over a million of them in this blog. I encourage you to read them and draw your own conclusions about me and what has happened over the past 365 days.

Here's to another year of life.

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