This surely is the unnamed holiday. The shadow twin of Boxing Day, the orphaned Friday stuck between that holiday with a hangover and a weekend. I will suit up and make my way to work but will there be work to meet me there? There likely will be an emptiness, desks without jockeys, voice mail alerts flashing at no one until Monday's return to the new term, the start of the second season.
- Actual Doctor Who News Update: the next Doctor will be announced tomorrow. Will he be a she?
- Update: Skull Splitter saved. More here.
- New Year's Day was as idle as idle could be. Ever notice how idle and ideal are so closely related? Hmm? Have you? I didn't even watch a bowl game, which surprises me a bit. But I did roast a prime rib roast better than I have ever roasted one before. Thanks heavens for the pre-Christmas beef price collapse at the A+P.
- Congratulations to the twins.
- The New Years blizzard in PEI received the attention of bloggers with video cams.
- Ben is quite content with both 2008 and the prospects for 2009. I suppose I have to agree: the family expands, kids are arguably above average, the holiday tours indicated a fairly contented clan. Some will complain but they, we must recall, were asked not to stay on.
- What is to come? I expect again I will not be wise with my taxes even if I will spend hours getting better at Wii. I expect Iggy to coat tail what is happening to the south and benefit from the increase in confidence that will exist at the end of the year with or without yet another Federal election. I grew out my beard. Will it last? Such suspense.
- The corner has been turned in the baseball year with the season to come now the topic rather than the one that has just passed. I like the idea of Derek Lowe playing for the Mets but I have no idea where Manny is going to land.
- Predictions? Resolutions? What could they be? Pledging to be smarter and healthier? Promising to myself that I will eat wild game and buy cut flowers once a week? Ensuring I have an ear to the new bands despite all of new music being chronologically dislocated for me for almost a decade? Play more penny whistle. That's it!
Comments
Jay Currie - January 2, 2009 12:00 pm
This is the day when the office hierarchy really sorts itself out. (In my office - which would be, well, me) that means I am going out with my kids to shoot pictures with their new (to them) point and shoot digital cameras.)
2009 is shaping up to be an interesting year. Iggy and Steve are an even match, the Canadian economy is actually in not bad shape and Liberal Americans will be able to experience the joy of great expectations.
Happy New Year.
Seanie - January 3, 2009 4:03 pm
New Doctor Who....I am not sold on him, then again I knew Tennant would be better than Eccleston the moment I heard him speak and others, my spouse included disagreed vociferously.
Jeff of Stonch's Beer Blog - January 3, 2009 4:18 pm
Alan, the new Doctor was never going to be a woman. It's Matt Smith, an actor more than three years younger than me. Why does one get old so quickly? How can Doctor Who be younger than me? I barely even remember Tom Baker, and now Doctor Who's younger than me.
Alan - January 3, 2009 5:26 pm
I knew we met on other fields of the intellect - first law, then beer, now Doctor Who. One day we will debate who makes the best "Double 99".
I was out with the kids today and they insisted that I buy the latest Doctor Who magazine and the depth of content in the whole pantheon is what really amazes me. I look at it as a complex and multi-layered set of information that the kids and I can share to support the idea that any complex set of data is digestible.
I think it is fair to say that Matt Smith is the UK's version of Greg Oden, young but not that young looking. Being 45, Baker is the main Doctor for me as that was what what on PBS when I was in high school - but so far I am most impressed with Eccleston though I have not seen enough of the third doctor.
seanie - January 4, 2009 12:01 pm
I was always a Tom Baker guy, even though when I was in high school, Peter Davidson was the doc. Looking back now, watching the dvds as they are released, and listening to the commentary, I am finding they and Colin Baker surprisingly enough are quite equal in my minds now.