Merry Christmas, everybody!

Well, today is Christmas and I'm blogging on time. Who knew I had it in me?

December's a wierd month for me. I hate most of it, because I hate Christmas Carols and all the shopping propaganda. Then "Christmas" comes around on the 23rd or so (my family celebrates early so everyone's schedules work out) and I remember that I actually do like this holiday.

Every year since I moved out I've watched Clerks II on Christmas (real Christmas, not early Christmas), and I intend to keep the tradition going. Visit some old friends for dinner. Don't know what else I'm going to do, but it should be fun.

And I hope whatever you do today is also fun. Merry Christmas, from YNTE.


"Whatever you are, be a good one."
-Abraham Lincoln.

Bear is Going Back to Driver's Ed

So I was on my way to work this afternoon, and to my right what do I see? A tree, but with an added bonus. A car. I don't know how they managed to drive over the left lane and into this tree, but I can only assume that a bear must have been driving.

It's somebody's birthday!

And according to the candles, Matt is turning 1!

Leonidus' Favorite Condiment.

Madness? THIS IS KETCHUP!

Taken with Umi's crappy camera phone at the South Hill Arby's.

I've arrived.

That's right, as of today, I'm important enough to have a name plate outside my cube.

Also, this is YNTE's 100th post, which makes it eligible for syndication. Hooray!

Achievement Unlocked.

Earlier today when I posted that I would be hitting 10k "soon", I was still 160 points away. I knew I could get 160 points in a few days. I had no idea it would only take hours.

10k is a HUGE deal for me, way bigger than it should be, but whatev. Point is, I set a goal, I buckled down, and I saw it to completion, which is rare for me. Sure the goal involved playing a lot of video games, but still.

Anyway, thanks to anyone who helped me get here. I did it.

Video Time Part 2: Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Chonchords are hilarious. Check out their comedy specials or their HBO TV series from which the following clip was pulled. At the very least, youtube "The Humans Are Dead". You'll be glad you did.

Video Time Again! YAY!

The following video is from Prison Break, Season 3, and for those of our readers who haven't seen season 3 yet(there's at least 1, which is a substantial percentage), it doesn't really spoil anything. I think. I edited it a while ago and just now got around to uploading it and didn't watch it again. But I kind of remember what was in it and I think it's fine.

Not spoiler free is the Head in a Box series we'll be uploading once somebody edits it down. So prolly never.

The obligatory (late) happy thanksgiving post

The day before thanksgiving I talked to Matt and he said to me "One of us should do a Thanksgiving post." It thought it was a good idea and agreed. Then i put it off until now. So consider this a combination late Thanksgiving and an early Christmas/Channukkah/Kwanzaa/Robotikah post.

My goal to get to 10,000 gamerscore points by the end of the year has been eating up a lot of my time. I'm now fairly close and can confidently say that short of system failure, I will achieve my goal. More on that in another post soon.

I did also have the goal of writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). That goal failed, in large part to the other goal and the fact that novels are incredibly hard to write.

Beyond that, life's been pretty good. I went to see Mike Birbiglia, who is a very funny man. I helped my parents with some yard landscaping, played some Rock Band, read some comic books. I've been pretty busy but managed to stay happy, or at least calm and unstressed. So I guess that would be what I'm thankful for this year.

So to all, Happy Holidays from YNTE.

-Evan

"You do know I made Robotikah up to get out of doing work, right?"
"Yes, but that doesn't make it any less special."