{"id":31875,"date":"2011-12-30T23:47:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T03:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2020-06-28T23:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:47:47","slug":"i-dont-know-why-im-at-work-so-ill-muse-about-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31875","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m at work, so I\u2019ll muse about 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m pretty sure I can count on one hand just how many people are in this office today.\u00a0 Granted, I\u2019m not complaining at the fact that I\u2019m getting paid to sit here and do absolutely no work, but man, I certainly wouldn\u2019t have minded sleeping in this morning.\u00a0 But instead, I trudged out of bed at 6:30 a.m. to go run around the \u2018hood in 36 degree weather, and here I sit, waiting for a few hours to pass, since I made it all the way out here already.\u00a0 So with that in mind, and since I\u2019ve pretty much seen the entire work-safe internet now, I suppose it\u2019s not a bad time to sit back and catch up on some writing.\u00a0 And with the end of the year literally right around the corner, why not use that as a topic?<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I\u2019m at the office, and don\u2019t ever visit my own sites on the network for paranoid fear that they\u2019ll one day find my online identity, I\u2019m musing most of this based on what I can remember off the top of my head.\u00a0 But the good news is that, as a whole, I don\u2019t think that the encapsulated 2011 year was a very bad year at all.\u00a0 Compared to 2010, it was a much improved year.\u00a0 At first blush I want to say that it wasn\u2019t anything magnificently spectacular, but the more I think about it, I guess I can say that 2011 was a pretty decent year overall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As is the general structure of the last few years, we have a few months, the baseball months, and then the holidays and the end of the year.\u00a0 I travel to a bunch of places, try and look all worldly and well-traveled, hang out with as many people as I can, and try to make new experiences whenever I can, all while doing my best to maintain a somewhat regular professional schedule and keep the bills paid.\u00a0 This year was not much different than that.\u00a0 But I guess the difference is that a lot of personal bullshit stayed out of the picture, no curvy temptress mindfucked me, and no worthless hood rats attempted to break into my house, which are all positives in my book.\u00a0 Granted, it\u2019s not to say that my year was absolved of all nonsense, as I found my parents\u2019 marital struggles to be upsetting at first, but grew to be more of an aggravated, repetitive annoyance by this point, but the fact that it\u2019s not more severe is more tolerable.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few things stand out when I look back at the year as a whole:<\/span><\/p>\n