{"id":1451,"date":"2016-12-31T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:31:10","slug":"nope-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2016\/12\/31\/nope-2016","title":{"rendered":"NOPE 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s over. It’s finally over. Well, let’s take a last look…<\/p>\n

January<\/b>: Science Is Everywhere
\n-New TV
\n-Zoo Lights
\n-Something isn’t right.
\n-Spice cookies
\n-David Bowie?! Awww.
\n-Oh, dear, that house had an electrical fire.
\n-Alan Rickman?! Awww.
\n-Something still isn’t right.
\n-Wow, big snow storm.
\n-Got to watch as much Doctor Who as I can before Netflix pulls it.<\/p>\n

February<\/b>: Wagner
\n-Muse concert!
\n-Something very much isn’t right.
\n-Superbowl! Chili and cookies as usual.
\n-Something is most definitely not right…
\n-Oh. Oh no.
\n-I… I waited too long.
\n-Unless I’m mistaken? Am I mistaken?
\n-What is going on?
\n-I’m… not mistaken. \ud83d\ude41
\n-Soul searching late night drive. What do I do now?
\n-Wait. Is that a $72 roundtrip airfare to Chicago? Hell yeah, I’ll go to Chicago!
\n-Okay, I’ll go on a bunch of trips this year.
\n-Starting with a ski day at Seven Springs!<\/p>\n

March<\/b>: Kommissar
\n-What a bizarre board game.
\n-Goodbye, Downton Abbey.
\n-Zootopia!
\n-Lots of stories for Lent this year.
\n-Marzipan eggs!
\n-Brookside as usual.
\n-Solo Easter!<\/p>\n

April<\/b>: An Even Wackier One
\n-Now to the Outer Banks!
\n-But I won’t spend any money because I don’t want to reward North Carolina for their anti-trans bathroom asshattery.
\n-Up at 4am to go to the damn airport.
\n-Good morning, Chicago!
\n-The ledge at the Tower Formerly Known as Sears.
\n-Wow, that’s a weird pizza.
\n-It’s that painting you’re supposed to stare at, according to Ferris Bueller.
\n-Mmmm, Italian beef.
\n-Back to Midway. Back home. This was just a day trip after all. \ud83d\ude1b
\n-My state’s turn for the presidential primary.
\n-Well, that was pointless.
\n-Now visiting the alma mater on the way to another day trip destination.
\n-Ah, the Ocean City boardwalk. Lots of kites!
\n-And a disturbing number of Trump shirts in the gift shops. -_-
\n-Mini-golf!<\/p>\n

May<\/b>: Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime
\n-Damn. The orange swamp monster secured the nomination.
\n-Birthday!
\n-Now to Baltimore to go to the aquarium.
\n-What a bizarre book title.
\n-Ugh, damn it, Capitals.
\n-Ugh, everything else.
\n-Nationals game. They lost.
\n-Another Nationals game. They lost.<\/p>\n

June<\/b>: 11:45 Entry
\n-More meh.
\n-But I’m going to New York next!
\n-Catching a bus at 6am.
\n-Bus is late. Must rush.
\n-Got there just in time. Up the escalator.
\n-I’m here.
\n-At last, after 19 years, I’m atop the World Trade Center! \ud83d\ude00
\n-Brexit vote: UK, WTF are you doing?<\/p>\n

July<\/b>: Metro Center
\n-Next up: Flying out to Las Vegas for July 4th weekend.
\n-Then flying back over July 4th fireworks!
\n-Then landed to find TSA opened my suitcase. :irked:
\n-Meh.
\n-Something about the Newseum and a Canadian.<\/p>\n

August<\/b>: Inkers
\n-Rio Olympics!
\n-Road trip to Connecticut!
\n-Weekend in Atlanta!<\/p>\n

September<\/b>: Arnos Grove
\n-Nationals game. Hey, they won this time!
\n-The Bazaar is in October?!
\n-Here we go again, seven years to the day after I left last time…
\n-London!
\n-No sleep on the flight over, though. :\\<\/p>\n

October<\/b>: Six Pitchers
\n-Mmmm, Bazaar.
\n-Damn it, Nats. -_-<\/p>\n

November<\/b>: For Some Reason
\n-Election Day, at long last…
\n-No.
\n-No, no, no, no, no.
\n-ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER THAN THIS!
\n-Just… how? why?
\n-To airport super early…
\n-Hello, Magic Kingdom.
\n-What the shit? It’s November. Why is it so crowded? There’s never anyone here in November! :irked:
\n-Landed back at BWI. Why is my car not unlocking?
\n-Oh. I left a light on in my rush to make the flight. For five days. *grimace*
\n-I haven’t seen her in many many years.
\n-To Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. Something about an aquarium and a Canadian.<\/p>\n

December<\/b>: Foamed Milk on a Pumpkin Spice Latte
\n-Christmas.<\/p>\n

Alright, 2017 ball up there in Times Square…<\/p>\n

Get us the fuck out of here! :scared:<\/p>\n

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It’s over. It’s finally over. Well, let’s take a last look… January: Science Is Everywhere -New TV -Zoo Lights -Something isn’t right. -Spice cookies -David Bowie?! Awww. -Oh, dear, that house had an electrical fire. -Alan Rickman?! Awww. -Something still isn’t right. -Wow, big snow storm. -Got to watch as much Doctor Who as I … Continue reading “NOPE 2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-uncategorized","tag-new-years-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}