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2011: Journal in Review
I wondered a bit about my end-of-year habit of going back to the first sentence of the first post for each month in my journal given how I had just taken advantage of the chance to get a free account with Dreamwidth, if for no more involved reason than because I could, and managed to import everything I had posted to it. However, when I started collecting the sentences I went back to my old journal, and in any case I still have every intention of continuing to crosspost to it (and to keep my friends list there intact) for as long as I can.
January: Along with the uncertain feeling of trying to get used to the number in the year changing (with the old one going away and not coming back) and considering what the perfect sentence to start off my journal could be, another part of getting ready for the new year is wondering what's going to happen to the Peanuts comics being rerun on their official site.
February: Every so often I notice comments that soft drinks tasted better back when they were made with cane sugar and not corn syrup, but in the past I never tried to follow up on them and search out the old-fashioned soda pop that was said to still be found here and there.
March: Once more in "tidying-up mode" so far as picking Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes to rewatch goes, I've entered the eighth season and moved on to "The Undead."
April: The thought does come to me every now and then that although I've watched anime for a good long while by many standards, I don't quite seem to have followed a path others seem to have and gone "beyond" it to a full connection to the "non-drawn" Japan.
May: Setting off on my Pacific vacation, I had hoped to provide some photographs in posts made during it even if they had to be uploaded in fragments of satellite connection time measured out day by day.
June: I was actually at work on the night shift when space shuttle Endeavour landed in Florida, but perhaps all that meant was that I learned about it a few hours earlier than I might otherwise have but was in worse shape after the shift and a little sleep to actually make up a post about it.
July: When I decided it might be fun not just to go on another cruise but to go on one starting in Japan, I was aware I wouldn't be spending that much time in the country but could still hope it might do something to broaden my awareness of it; I wouldn't say I see it just as "that place anime and manga comes from," but there does seem something to "a more balanced perspective," even if just on general principles.
August: Once more, I've happened to learn about the just-announced set of Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs from Shout! Factory from a journal community post, and it was somehow a particular surprise to see the announcement this time.
September: All too aware what a froth various people have worked themselves into over the years with their bumper-sticker-level reactions to the Star Wars movies being something of a shifting work, I suppose I'd thought it might be at least "different" were a hypothetical high-definition release to be just the same as the DVDs and not give anyone anything new to complain about.
October: Since the last time I looked back at the anime I've watched in a three-month span of time, I managed to transfer off rotating twelve-hour shifts at work and back on to days.
November: Getting back to Mystery Science Theater 3000, I've headed to early in the "Mike episodes" and "Beginning of the End."
December: Right when I was wondering yet again if I'd be able to think of anything to write a post about to break up the commentary on Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, I saw news that the long-running project working on the open-source version of the Marathon games had at last reached its "1.0" release.
I suppose I always feel better when I see a reasonable amount of variety covered in the sentences. I can also notice just how long some of them are, though...
See you in the new year!
January: Along with the uncertain feeling of trying to get used to the number in the year changing (with the old one going away and not coming back) and considering what the perfect sentence to start off my journal could be, another part of getting ready for the new year is wondering what's going to happen to the Peanuts comics being rerun on their official site.
February: Every so often I notice comments that soft drinks tasted better back when they were made with cane sugar and not corn syrup, but in the past I never tried to follow up on them and search out the old-fashioned soda pop that was said to still be found here and there.
March: Once more in "tidying-up mode" so far as picking Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes to rewatch goes, I've entered the eighth season and moved on to "The Undead."
April: The thought does come to me every now and then that although I've watched anime for a good long while by many standards, I don't quite seem to have followed a path others seem to have and gone "beyond" it to a full connection to the "non-drawn" Japan.
May: Setting off on my Pacific vacation, I had hoped to provide some photographs in posts made during it even if they had to be uploaded in fragments of satellite connection time measured out day by day.
June: I was actually at work on the night shift when space shuttle Endeavour landed in Florida, but perhaps all that meant was that I learned about it a few hours earlier than I might otherwise have but was in worse shape after the shift and a little sleep to actually make up a post about it.
July: When I decided it might be fun not just to go on another cruise but to go on one starting in Japan, I was aware I wouldn't be spending that much time in the country but could still hope it might do something to broaden my awareness of it; I wouldn't say I see it just as "that place anime and manga comes from," but there does seem something to "a more balanced perspective," even if just on general principles.
August: Once more, I've happened to learn about the just-announced set of Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs from Shout! Factory from a journal community post, and it was somehow a particular surprise to see the announcement this time.
September: All too aware what a froth various people have worked themselves into over the years with their bumper-sticker-level reactions to the Star Wars movies being something of a shifting work, I suppose I'd thought it might be at least "different" were a hypothetical high-definition release to be just the same as the DVDs and not give anyone anything new to complain about.
October: Since the last time I looked back at the anime I've watched in a three-month span of time, I managed to transfer off rotating twelve-hour shifts at work and back on to days.
November: Getting back to Mystery Science Theater 3000, I've headed to early in the "Mike episodes" and "Beginning of the End."
December: Right when I was wondering yet again if I'd be able to think of anything to write a post about to break up the commentary on Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, I saw news that the long-running project working on the open-source version of the Marathon games had at last reached its "1.0" release.
I suppose I always feel better when I see a reasonable amount of variety covered in the sentences. I can also notice just how long some of them are, though...
See you in the new year!