That’s right. The calendar says today is August 31, which means it is at last…
100
So my friends, another hot sunny summer has gone by, yet another round of the infamous 100 Days of Summer, the tenth round in fact! Which means next year’s eleventh round, each day is the tenth anniversary of the days of the original! These days have a way of being crazy, mysterious, wonderful, and terrible. And today we celebrate completing another hundred of them! So let’s review!
Day 1, okay, got a new algae eater yesterday, a gold one. I’ll call him Aurelius!
Day 3, as usual, NYRA board is being annoyingly quiet about important stuff. Do I really want yet another year of this frustration and silence?
Day 7, we can’t let Hyundai and Allstate get away with running ageist ads, at least not without complaints! Get them! Also, saw Soul Asylum!
Day 8, okay, fine, I’ll run for another year on the damn board.
Day 9, wait, crap, I think our AC is broken.
Day 10, yeah, I’d say so. Outside unit isn’t even running!
Day 12, gaaahhh! AC unit is in my damn room and needs to be replaced, so got all these repairmen trampling through my room taking shit apart in the mech closet. Oh and they used an acetylene torch at one point to put some parts back together afterward, so we had to cover up the two nearby sprinklers with cups so they wouldn’t be set off. Crazy!
Day 21, board meeting, we have moved the Annual Meeting back to Washington, DC! Okay, that makes things easier. Oh, and I requested my e-mail account be returned to me, since it’d been nearly two years. Alex and Stefan refused, but Keith seconded my motion and it came to a vote. It passed! I got my NYRA e-mail account back. Alright.
Day 24, the first of three runs of #16tovote on the 16th during the 100 Days of Summer! Awesome as usual.
Day 28, gee wiz, people sure are offended that I dared to say Father’s Day is stupid.
Day 35, NYRA-DC meeting! Larry is here to run the chapter! Should be awesome.
Day 37, oh no! At work, someone is having nasty diabetic attack! Paramedics had to come. They got some sugar in her and she snapped back to normal.
Day 39, alright, forums are dying and people want to be able to vote in NYRA’s election, so for anyone who makes 50 posts before end of July, I’ll sponsor membership.
Day 40, let out of work early for holiday weekend… there’s some smoke over near that car… FIRE! Some idiot threw a cigarette butt into dry mulch and it ignited. Had to put it out.
Day 41, took little brother to see Toy Story 3. BAWWWWWW!
Day 42, time for patriotic ‘splosions! From the middle of the soccer field by my house, can see like six different fireworks displays in the area. Sweet!
Day 44, I think the fucking AC is broken again. :irked:
Day 47, repair guy returns, again traipsing through my damn room, but this time not so much ruckus, just refilled the freon. Poor ozone layer!
Day 48, youth-related council hearing in DC with NYRA! And on metro ride home, Alex discussing NYRA’s financial situation and getting me all panicked. Jerk did that on purpose! :doitnow:
Day 49, alright, I’m putting up some NYRA flyers again. Hooked up my printer, printed off a bunch, and late at night, put some up at local bus stops, mailboxes, and a condo complex.
Day 50, the Fifty-Fifty! More flyers, though it was raining. Also, got pizza.
Day 54, there was apparently an earthquake here I totally never felt. Also, the July #16tovote on the 16th! Going great… and got a call from mom that Nigel is still struggling with his severe arthritis and can’t really move anymore…
Day 55, and it’s time to make a fateful trip to the vet… and say goodbye.
Alright, Round 10, you just killed my dog. You owe a lot of awesome shit to even come close to balancing this back out.
Day 56, went to WES, and actually said something in the community response, something pro-youth rights! Also, last NYRA board meeting of the year!
Day 61, NYRA-DC has an online chat to finalize the chapter charter… and it devolves into unspeakable chaos and drama. Oy.
Day 63, wow, that is a huge mass of red heading our way on the radar… and the lights are out now. Lovely. But holy damn, what a storm! But storm long since finished and sun is back out… and still no electricity. Sigh. Not again.
Day 64, lights are still off, at least they’re back on at work, only to come home later to find they’re still off at home. I hate you, Pepco. I’ll go to the library. Back at 7pm, still no power at home. So back to work, use computer there, watch evil little triangles on Pepco website outage map. Home at 9pm to find lights had just come back on. Another 30-hour outage, just like February.
Day 65, day after ending of long outage, got $218 Pepco bill. I HATE YOU!
Day 69, been thinking to visit state capitals. I’ll start with my own. Annapolis! Saw State House, ate a crab cake, and got a hat. Fun little outing!
Day 71, okay, just ordered some new NYRA bumper stickers! Hope they arrive in time for the Annual Meeting! Want to debut them there!
Day 74, I’d better hurry up and decide who to vote for in this NYRA board election. So many great candidates! So hard to decide! I guess I’ll just flip a coin for that ninth place person. Not that ninth choice matters in Single Transferrable Vote.
Day 75, yes! Stickers arrived just in time! Also, buying lots and lots of meeting food.
Day 76, NYRA ANNUAL MEETING!!!! I live tweet, but better yet, Jeff and Zac got the live streaming working so our online friends who couldn’t attend in person could still watch! And I cut Alex a deal, sort of. I did not hit him with the laser pointer during the annual report… I did it right after it while he was saying something into the live-streaming camera. Hahaha. Also…. STEFAAAAAAAN! He wasn’t reelected. 🙁
Day 77, NYRA ANNUAL MEETING!!!! Live tweeting and streaming going again, onto the second day! Got lots of pizza, again from Bertucci’s, and had a sweet strategic planning session. And I made Dave do his trick, where he stands on one leg and puts his other leg behind his head. And when the meeting was over, Alex ran off to church, I hung out with Usi and David SJ, then Jeff and Zac rejoined us, and met back up with Alex at NYRA office. Hal showed up, and we discussed NYRA stuff more. Then we got pizza. And sat there having fun and talking youth rights until the place closed. Fucking win.
Day 82, someone had another diabetic attack! Eek! Also, first Redskins preaseason game: squashed the Buffalo Bills. Hahaha! 😀
Day 84, Galen says fuck it and cancels Sniper chats, since Max and I are the only ones who ever go anymore. Oh, well.
Day 85, the third and final #16tovote on the 16th in the 100 Days of Summer! Lots of tweets but not a lot of participants. Oh, well.
Day 88, another NYRA-DC online chat, trying again to finalize charter, bracing self for another explosion… and it was actually rather pleasant and charter was finalized. Nice!
Day 90, meh, constant stereotypes and ignorance of Comedy Central and other stuff is getting on my nerves, think I’ll watch NatGeo Wild for a while. Change of pace.
Day 91, I have got to clean this damn room.
Day 92, what the shit?! The AC is broken AGAIN? You kidding me? Also, finally had first board meeting. With a board that is once again being unresponsive. Sigh. Why am I doing this shit again?
Day 93, and repair guy is back once more to fix the AC, and this time found the leak causing the freon to be running out in the first place. Oh, the poor poor ozone layer! 🙁
Day 94, and now the fucking smoke detector is chirping because it needs a new battery. Which one? There’s three… oh, lucky, the third floor one. As in the one that’s waaaay up high on the wall and impossible to reach, and even with the ladder can’t quite get it. So had to get neighbor to help.
Day 97, DC is having dueling rallies! Glenn Beck rally versus Al Sharpton rally! Hal and I went to recruit some NYRA supporters at the Sharpton one. Early morning and under a vicious sun, but lots of fun! And we totally marched holding the NYRA banner. 😀
Day 98, visited family to get mail, spend time with little brother, and… feed them because they’re broke. Sigh.
Day 99, car maintenance! Which took forever and made me super late getting back to work. So when I did get back, almost everyone had already left for the day.
And, finally, at last…
Day 100, today! Pretty much an ordinary work day, not terribly eventful. Sitting here eating a yummy summer salad! It’s got spinach, avocado, assorted nuts, corn, and pepperoni. Yum.
And ten times of these 100 Days of Summer, that makes today the 1000th day total of the 100 Days of Summer with all rounds added together. Kind of neat.
This tenth round, well, majorly sucked. I lost my dog! And if before midnight I receive word that all 50 states have lowered their voting and drinking ages and ruled curfews illegal, that NYRA is given a million dollars, and that It’s Raining Men song comes true (giggity!)… yeah, I think this round might still be a little behind. Seriously, losing a dog sucks.
As these 100 Days of Summer draw to a close, as the final four months of 2010 loom ahead. What’s going on? What’s happening? Last year, I closed Round 9 with the realization that to make things awesome, they must be, well, made awesome, in spite of any out of control circumstances. But I’m not sure what the hell is happening now. If anything. Then again, maybe that’s part of the fun.
And with that, I bid farewell to Round 10 of the 100 Days of Summer! It shall return on May 24, 2011, for Round 11, and whatever crazy crap will be going on then.
This has been Day 100 of the 100 Days of Summer, Round 10.