{"id":38062,"date":"2013-12-30T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38062"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:41:21","slug":"the-obligatory-reflecting-on-the-year-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38062","title":{"rendered":"The obligatory reflecting on the year post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nz-OMn1o22Y?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Favorite musical discovery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpostmodernjukebox&amp;session_token=j8fM4KOqhagnjhmeT-k4KwA9F6N8MTM4ODMzOTU5MUAxMzg4MjUzMTkx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Postmodern Jukebox<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I know that we as people like to encapsulate chunks of time into nice round denominations, like years, but I have to say that with each passing year, I feel like time just seems to fly by, and it\u2019s harder to encapsulate everything as easily as it once may have seemed. However, that doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m not really going to try.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Perhaps the difficulty is in the fact that at least in my case, 2013 was a pretty ordinary year. By no means does that automatically imply that 2013 was a bad year by any stretch of the imagination, it just wasn\u2019t one that particularly stands out in my opinion. Otherwise, I think I\u2019d be in the situation of where I couldn\u2019t wait to reflect on the year as a whole, so it would be a convenient excuse for me to get to relive and revisit thing(s) that were exceptionally good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s a good and a bad thing that I\u2019m such a dedicated and consistent brogger when it comes to being able to look back in time. It\u2019s particularly good when I\u2019m capable of finding anything that was particularly good that happened in a year\u2019s time, because I\u2019m a fairly open person, and I\u2019m definitely sure to write about anything that\u2019s made me happy or put me in a good mood. Contrarily, it works both ways, because I\u2019m just as apt to write about the things that upset me or make me unhappy, to varying degrees of clarity and vagueness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But back to the point of looking back at the year as a whole, and it wasn\u2019t particularly bad, and it wasn\u2019t particularly great. For anything that was good, there was something not so good, and vice versa. I\u2019ll be frank, my parents\u2019 impending divorce is difficult for me, as I\u2019ve stated before, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever an age where this isn\u2019t bothersome in some capacity. Looking back at some of my posts and photo entries throughout the year, and it turns out that I\u2019ve done a good deal of cool things, but all it really took was one bad phone call to throw a wet blanket around my mood and state of being for a good bit of time. I know it seems silly to put so much weight on my parents\u2019 issues, but it\u2019s safe to say that it\u2019s possibly one of the worst things to happen to me and my family in quite a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Let\u2019s not dwell on the negative however, because when the day is over, I still want my brog to be a place of a somewhat positive nature, even if I post occasional bullshit from time to time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-35079\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2837.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2837.jpg 768w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2837-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5523\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"IMG_2837\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_2837-e1388215663523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">In some capacity, I think my years have become somewhat formulaic, because I tend to do the same type and\/or activities on an annual basis. Go to new cities and places to watch baseball and visit ballparks, Dragon*Con, holidays, and occasional parties sprinkled here and there. Everything else is pretty much work and mundane family visits in between. As someone who enjoys some semblance of routine, this isn\u2019t really a bad thing, but putting things in this perspective, I suppose that my years are somewhat repetitive in some capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Either way, I still feel that I did a fair amount of unique and interesting things throughout the year, and I\u2019m fairly satisfied that I put forth a good effort in branching out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-36137\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0375-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">My baseball travels took me to some new parts of the country that I\u2019d never been to before, like Detroit, Denver, Jacksonville, and many parts of Upstate New York, and I revisited places like Miami and Tampa, with the latter being a convenient excuse to go to see Hulk Hogan\u2019s Beach Shop. My hobby of running and athletic endeavors led me to participate in events such as the Spartan Race and Cupid\u2019s Undie Run, both of which were unique and interesting events, with me already agreeing to participate in the Spartan Run again in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">San Diego Comic-Con was a new and novel experience for me this year, as in spite of the fact that San Diego is pretty much paradise, it was pretty much the most crowded place in the world; that is until Dragon*Con decided to be the most packed D*C in like ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-36723\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4838.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4838-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4838-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But all through all aforementioned trips and experiences, despite my criticisms of the stereotypical aZn photographer, I\u2019ve been trying and aspiring to improve as a picture-taker throughout 2013, to the point where I\u2019ve been purchasing actual camera equipment, like upgraded lenses and an external flash, with hopes that pictures I take in the future will be vastly improved, and quite possibly some to be proud enough for others to actually be impressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I feel like I\u2019ve said the same thing two or three times over, so it\u2019s a good indication that I really didn\u2019t have that much to say in the first place, and really wanted to just write. That being said, that\u2019s a good indication that it\u2019s time to wrap up the post, and to get ready to put 2013 in the rearview mirror and proceed to prepare for the dawn of 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">With the first stop of the year being Las Vegas, I think it\u2019ll be off to a good start, so here\u2019s hoping that the rest of it follow suite. To good fortune, an aversion to negativity and the pursuit of positive things, cheers to the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favorite musical discovery: Postmodern Jukebox I know that we as people like to encapsulate chunks of time into nice round denominations, like years, but I have to say that with each passing year, I feel like time just seems to fly by, and it\u2019s harder to encapsulate everything as easily as it once may have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The obligatory reflecting on the year post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,129,83,15,110],"class_list":["post-38062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-new-years","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38063,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062\/revisions\/38063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}