Since it's the end of the year, I ask you to reflect on the past 12 months and think about your greatest moment.

What was the highlight of the year for you?

and, on the other hand, what was the worst moment?

for me, my best moments were:

* Winning Paintball, it was a glorious moment where teamwork and psychotic behaviour proved succesfull

* Having sex with French stunner Monique (I think that was her name), best shag of the year

* Eating "Space Cake" and hallucinating while playing Perfect Dark, I could have sworn the chair was floating and the characters were jumping around my living room.

my worst moments were when I got too drunk and became determined to smash a police van with a brick, I got caught, had to explain why I had a brick in my hand round the back of the Police station. They let me go and I proceeded to not only set fire to a billboard but I smashed my bosses car beyond repair and threw a fridge into the local river.

it was the first time that I was unable to control myself, I spent the next day(s) quite confused and scared.

Best moment-Who gives a shit
Worst moment-Same for this one too. Lets face it, no one here gives a shit about my personal life. If anyone cares, than just tell me. Otherwise, I'm going to try to be less annoying or jump off a bridge, whichever is easiest.

high points

-the tent at reading (to put a new spin on the term 'high point')
- the bands first gig in ages
- inventing stix
- the night of night-sports

low points

- puking on my dad
- puking on my dad (again)
- puking on my dad (yeah, im stupid again)
- getting cheated on by 2 different women

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Best moment-Who gives a shit
Worst moment-Same for this one too. Lets face it, no one here gives a shit about my personal life. If anyone cares, than just tell me. Otherwise, I'm going to try to be less annoying or jump off a bridge, whichever is easiest.

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my thoughts exactly

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I'm going to try to be less annoying or jump off a bridge, whichever is easiest.

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best moments
-going to camp and making friends
--best--a moment of peace, during a day my dad was away.
-winning Silent Scope at the mall(jk)

worst moments
-My own private versions of Family Fued 1 - 1000, rounds 1-15, in my psychotic life. They took place about 4-5 days a week, 52 weeks of the year.

I know you don't care bout me, in ways this has been my best year in others worst.

Best

Finding my love for my music (Carpenters Rat Pack and anything before 1980)

Going to Malta for a week with 39 other people none of them related to me (Judo club) and singing Angels, Unchained Melody, How much is that doggy in the window and Delilah in Karaoke there.

Worst

Having a serious four hour op on me left ear at beginning of year and not doing anything for three weeks

Being in Malta when my dad got drunk and nearly gave my sister £100

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I'm going to try to be less annoying or jump off a bridge, whichever is easiest.

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I don't know about the others, but the bridge gets my vote.

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Best: Hearing about that cool Mystery Contest idea.

Worst: Losing in the first round, so my existence is pointless.

No it's not, you can still masturbate.

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- getting cheated on by 2 different women

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that would be fucking cool!

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my worst moments were when I got too drunk and became determined to smash a police van with a brick, I got caught, had to explain why I had a brick in my hand round the back of the Police station. They let me go and I proceeded to not only set fire to a billboard but I smashed my bosses car beyond repair and threw a fridge into the local river.

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It's all a blur, pretty much....

Lessee....

I did a craptrillion shows, as usual. Put up with the usual high-school politics. I did get a car I really like, but it's going to cost me a fortune to get it back into the shape I want it in.

I'm still up to my lower lip in debt.

I got laid, but not enough, and not by women that really did much for me. Nor I them. We were just sort of .... handy.

Christmas was blissfully short and uncomplicated.

70% of the year is a complete fucking blur because I just worked.

It's cold now. I hate that.

I think the high point was walking outside in early December and it was like 73 degrees out, so I just went riding around and sort of, cruisin'. Ya know? Bombing around with the radio on.

That and having a house gig that I really like.

I got to meet Gabe and he was an honest, funny, witty human being. That was cool.

The low points?

Somebody shoved a couple of airplanes into the last vesitges of this country's innocence in September. I'm still a bit angry about that.
Not getting a vacation, I suppose.
Losing the Cedar Point lighting contract.
Just being completely numb from exhaustion or being unfathomably bored.

Maybe I should buy a dog.

:- )

This has been a very up and down year for me. Most of it hasn't really been anything special.

Best moment: Finding out my girlfriend was pregnant and learning her father wouldn't kill me.

Worst moment: I can't really think of one moment that I could say was the worst of the year. I had my bad spots like anyone else would but nothing special. Of course the whole Sept. 11 thing but I try not to mention that to much as I find it to be very depressing and sad. It's also just implied that Sept. 11 affected all of us.

I am really looking forward to the new year alot more than usual. I'm eagerly awaiting my girlfriend to give birth to our first child. By the way if anyone cares we learned awhile ago that she was carrying a girl, shes due on Feb. 17.
I am also just looking to all around clean up my act in the new year. I just want to make a fresh start with my life starting with the new year.

dude- I didn't know you were that serious with your girl, Congrat's!

Best:
1)Got offered a job in the Seattle area, will be moving soon.
2)New paramour!!
3)discovered Livejournal and Stripcreator.
4)Discovered who my real friends are.

Worst:
1)discovered who my real friends are.

Best:
1) Some of the old folks in the family are dying, but in general the family is healthy.
2) Old friends still stay in touch.
3) I found a nice Tudor style home in the Maple Leaf district of Seattle, close to the kids' school. The home looked great for the holidays – very intimate and cozy.

Worst:
1) Got canned like 90% of the company I worked for right when Bush's economic policies really started to kick in. Now I'm looking for work with two young kids I'm hoping to keep in private schools and a new mortgage to support. (Lara - what do you do for a living and where did you find that Seattle job? We might be neighbors. Look me up when you get here.)
2) Nope. Can't complain, really.

Good:

Found this site, of course.
Went to a WCW house show (before McMahon bought it) in a second row seat. Nobody was sitting in front of me, and the one run-in they had was right next to me.
Got a Gameboy Advance to replace my almost ten year old black and white piece of crap.
Found this site.
Have somehow managed to go the whole year without failing anything.
Got to be in a group of about 20 people on a LAN-party type thing to play Unreal Tournament. Only lasted 45 minutes and lagged like the shit, but when it worked right, I damn near came in first place.
Went the whole summer only masturbating once (and yes, it is true).
Found this site.

Bad:

Spent the first part of summer in Arkansas with people I hardly know that say their part of my family. That, and it was before I got that Gameboy Advance. Sucks.
Signed up for PreCalculus, unknowing that I could take some crap math.
Got sunburned during the summer that mad me look like an Indian. There's still signs of it, seriously. (Now you know why I only masturbated once.)
Still have no life.
And, of course, found this site.
Oh yeah, and I use Windows. (ME)

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Went the whole summer only masturbating once (and yes, it is true).

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Time to reflect...

(looks in mirror)

Handsome devil!

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Best:

Discovered who my real friends are.

Worst:

Discovered who my real friends are.

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Good:

Went the whole summer only masturbating once (and yes, it is true).

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I admire your staying power; that must have been the best seven weeks of your life.

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Good:
Went the whole summer only masturbating once (and yes, it is true).

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Good:

Here's my list. See if you can spot the fake entries! Circle them on your screen with red pen.

• Got a pretty decent job which I enjoy, is very easy and pays well
  
• Bought a swank new Passat
  
• Started taking Aikido lessons and passed the test for my first kyu rank
  
• Started a fledgling company with some friends
  
• Read the Wheel of Time series again; got three books further into it this time
  
• Solved Fermat's last theorem.
  
• Got to drive a BMW M5
  
• Learned I have a half sister I didn't know about
  
• Found a fantastic new friend
  
• Climbed K2 with no oxygen and no socks
  
• Got a new 16x CD burner
  
• Just for fun picked up a part time job teaching swimming at my health club
  
• Met bunner and finally bought him that drink I owed him. Found him to be throroughly fascinating and damned funny.
  
• Got a laptop and wired the house with Ethernet
  
• My wife started moonlighting and increased our income dramatically. (see laptop, above)
  
• Conquered Portugal
  

Bad:

Either nothing really bad ever happens to me or I forget about it. I can't really come up with anything aside from my dog occaisonally pooping in the basement.

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Good:

Here's my list. See if you can spot the fake entries! Circle them on your screen with red pen.

• Got a pretty decent job which I enjoy, is very easy and pays well
  
• Bought a swank new Passat
  
• Started taking Aikido lessons and passed the test for my first kyu rank
  
• Solved Fermat's last theorem.
  
• Got to drive a BMW M5
  
• Learned I have a half sister I didn't know about
  
• Found a fantastic new friend
  
• Climbed K2 with no oxygen and no socks
  
• Got a laptop and wired the house with Ethernet
  
• My wife started moonlighting and increased our income dramatically. (see laptop, above)
  
• Conquered Portugal
  

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Went the whole summer only masturbating once (and yes, it is true).

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Forgive my ignorance, but how is this good?

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• Got a pretty decent job which I enjoy, is very easy and pays well
  
• FAKE - Bought a swank new Passat
  
• Started taking Aikido lessons and passed the test for my first kyu rank-

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Fake: Conquered Portugal

Logic: He could have bought Portugal for the price of the Passat and the Laptop, and saved himself from some small arms fire and possible pitchfork injuries.

I dunno. That part about bunner being fascinating is a little too rich to be real. The rest seems true, though.

Again, for those of you playing at home, this was sarcasm.

Fake:Solved Fermat's last theorem.
Logic:Because Fermat may return from the dead to write more theorems, there's no way we can be sure that his current last one will always be the last one.

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Again, for those of you playing at home, this was sarcasm.

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my worst moments were when I got too drunk and became determined to smash a police van with a brick, I got caught, had to explain why I had a brick in my hand round the back of the Police station. They let me go and I proceeded to not only set fire to a billboard but I smashed my bosses car beyond repair and threw a fridge into the local river.

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Otherwise, I'm going to try to be less annoying or jump off a bridge, whichever is easiest.

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- puking on my dad
- puking on my dad (again)
- puking on my dad (yeah, im stupid again)

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Having a serious four hour op on me left ear at beginning of year and not doing anything for three weeks

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my worst moments were when I got too drunk and became determined to smash a police van with a brick, I got caught, had to explain why I had a brick in my hand round the back of the Police station. They let me go and I proceeded to not only set fire to a billboard but I smashed my bosses car beyond repair and threw a fridge into the local river.

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Ah, Scots...

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Highlights:

• I bought my first house
  
• I was not a victim of my company's "force management plan," which resulted in half of the company looking for new jobs.
  
• I discovered Stripcreator and have made a bunch of virtual friends. They all rock, except that spunkhoover Gabe Billings.
  

Lowlights:

• My cat developed diabetes.
  
• We lost some pay due to the actions of a union which purportedly represents my interests.
  
• My wife would like me to include in this list the fact that I discovered Stripcreator.
  

The Good

• Cruising along at uni, getting good marks.
  
• Got a new PC.
  
• Found SC.com (well, lowpass.com/stripcreator originally) and watched it gather a great community.
  
• Made a lot of art, on paper, on the PC, and with both, which I was very proud of.
  
• My wife is still under the impression that I am a wonderful husband and a great partner to share her life with.
  
• Finally got to see TMBG live.
  

The Bad

• Pretty much all of August - burglary, car crash, major money troubles, and a double-whammy of bronchitis and laryngitis.
  
• WTC - nuff said.
  
• Went for a job interview, went really well, but the slack bastard was too busy to get back to me about it.
  
• The money situation is really fucking bad right now.
  
• Got evicted again!
  
• Had a major falling out with another online community I was in, and lost a bunch of e-friends.
  

There are more, but it is nudging 5am right now...

Not one of my better decades, but here goes:

The Good

* I am not currently on fire.
* I recovered from a knee injury and should be ready to tackle an active, fast-paced lifestyle (in the unlikely event that I actually develope one).
* I'm surrounded by fans. All of them electric.

The Bad

* My stock fund report for the past year reads simply "Ka-boom".
* I don't understand my job.
* I've failed to escape my deteriorating neighborhood. And my neighbors won't share thier crack.
* Each year the single life seems less a sign of free-wheelin' independence and more like a red 'L' stapled to my forhead.
* I have a drinking problem that is increasingly difficult to overcome. It's called "tolerance".

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Again, for those of you playing at home, this was sarcasm.

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Is this needed at the end of all your posts from now on? Tell everyone who doesn't realize it's sarcasm to fuck off.

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Worst:
1)Now I'm looking for work with two young kids I'm hoping to keep in private schools and a new mortgage to support. (Lara - what do you do for a living and where did you find that Seattle job? We might be neighbors. Look me up when you get here.)

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Good
- The new cats getting comfortable as part of our family
- Crossing 40 with no particularly ill effects
- Having an interesting job
- Celebrating three relatives' 90th birthdays!
- Being led down the rabbit hole into stripcreator
- Two great trips to Canada
- Finishing in the money in a session of a championship-level bridge event
- An audience with The King

Bad
- Politics, assholes, and lack of adequate supporting personnel at work
- 9/11 and its aftermath
- Retirement investments that seem to be managed by monkeys, only not as well
- A mysterious problem with the home computer that everyone passes the buck about, and won't fix, but renders it virtually incapable of doing some basic and needed stuff.

Ugly
That I've forgotten whatever else should be on those two lists

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- Being led down the rabbit hole into stripcreator

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Bad: All I can remember is my cat dying, but I'm sure there was something else. Oh yeah, all my retirement funds surely tanked. I'm afraid to open the statement.

Good: New kittens and furniture. Still alive and employed.

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Good:
...Went the whole summer only masturbating once (and yes, it is true).

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Good: New kittens and furniture. Still alive and employed.

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An audience with The King

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