new year 2015- what's so blinkin' HAPPY about it?

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I am positive that next month my birthday plans will be ruined because I or at least one of my parents will get a horrific case of flu. I read all about how the entire US is infected and the vaccines haven't worked, and when I checked the report on the map of Canada Nova Scotia is one of the few provinces left that's still white, but for how long. I'm just glad I'm not in Alberta right now, they're blood red.

Ebola, Norovirus, influenza, SARS, Lyme Disease, West Nile, FLESH EATING BACTERIA. Every year brings more and more scary and deadly diseases. I can't touch anything with my bare hands, I can't breathe too deeply when I go inside a public building, my mother gets mildly insulted when I refuse a sip from her drink. Next it'll probably be The Plague.

my beloved radio shack, all indications appear that it will bite the dust this year.

Radio Shack bet too heavily on being a cell phone clearinghouse, but when the cell providers realized that they could have their own stores, RS was bypassed. Try Fry's Electronics, frys.com. They ship anywhere in the continental US.

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I used to look forward to each year's new catalog in the fall.

LOL, that reminds me of a Weekly World News (cheap US tabloid) story ages ago about how the Evil Chinese were going to knock Earth out of its orbit by forcing all 1 billion + Chinese to jump up and down at the same time. The tabloid actually called for Patriotic Americans to do a counter-jump and save humanity. A few weeks later they ran a story about some of the counter-jump groups that had supposedly formed. I never figured out whether the stories of the counter-jump were of real people or not. They said that brave Chinese university students had done their part by pushing on the ceiling. I thought it was all quite funny, and hoped that the WWN drone who thought it up got a raise.

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that is all so funny

I remember the heyday of raves. Was friends with one of San Francisco's top trance spinners, who got me in to several big raves. Loved the music, HATED the drugs. 20 year olds with their brains cooking on meth and a dozen different psychoactive substances, dancing like robots, chewing on baby pacifiers to keep their teeth from wearing down and breaking-ecstasy makes you grind your teeth. It also makes you feel like you're hypothermic. Finally I bailed on the dances and enjoyed mix tapes and late night radio dance shows, Wild 107.7 in SF had an excellent dance mix that went late into the night, I would light up a blacklight bulb, open the windows and allow streetlight lights to shine in, and surf the net and talk online with a girl in Detroit I had a LDR with.

No drugs for me, all natural high for me, but rarely does a dance night pass, when someone does not ask me what I'm on from Molly to Cocaine to LSD, as I dance 3 to 4 hours straight in a REALLY FAST MARTIAL ARTS AND BALLET style WAY no one has ever seen before, by their report, not mine, and me without even a break or a drink of water.

Yes, I glide across the floor like a ballerina on ice skates, at around 6FT and 232LBS of muscle.

Truly there is no way I could do it, if I did not condition myself hours a day seven days a week.

It is what I do, and others take the short cut to truly nowhere in my opinion, when they do drugs.

I love the music and the dance but I do wear hearing protection in the way of ear plugs, as I value my hearing. ;)

It's just another year. Nothing to get too excited about. Now, where's my drink?

Nothing would happen, the total mass of humanity is too insignifiant to "move" the Earth in any noticeable way. Yes, there is a lot of peoples; but the mass of a rock piece of 12000km in diameter tend to be rather big.

There are years that I dread January and the new year. I have a fear of the unknown. The fear is especially strong for me this year. After Cigarette Man wrongfully and violently accused me of and harassed me for taking his two bags of beer cans, I knew that 2015 could be an uncertain year for me. Now I'm worried about whether my work experience is going to turn into a job, if it does start out as a work experience. I'm also worried about the prospect of walking into the recycling depot every second day with the dark prospect of seeing that character with his grandma, if the work experience at the bank doesn't lead to a job. I don't know what 2015 has in store for me, and 2014 was such an awesome year for me with a bunch of 40th and 50th Anniversaries of things that were relative to my special interests.

It's sales time in Belgium and as there only are two real sales periods there is always good bargains to be had. Is always beginning of January so perfect timing afaic
Went to Bruges today and found a parking space slap bang in town close enough to the shops to unload my sales hoard and feed the parking meter before eating lunch at Hema. Did some more shopping and headed home only to stop along the way and do some more shopping

No idea what the rest of the year will bring. Don't mind, my hoard will keep me happy for a while