\n– International potluck
\n– Another big ceasefire rally
\n– Snow day
\n– This better not be Covid again…
\n– Negative. Just a regular cold\/flu.<\/p>\n
February:<\/b> Lucky Plate<\/p>\n
– The Chiefs again. March:<\/b> The Banality of Evil<\/p>\n – AwesomeCon! April:<\/b> 15:15:14<\/p>\n – How am I doing this? May:<\/b> Frankie<\/p>\n – Crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests on campuses, inb4 another Kent State… June:<\/b> Twelve Day Turnaround<\/p>\n – Tornado warning. Whatever. July:<\/b> Sunday Afternoon<\/p>\n – Blueberry pie for the 4th<\/a>. August:<\/b> Offsides<\/p>\n – Tim Walz for VP September:<\/b> Talk About Extreme<\/p>\n – Ghosts.<\/a> October:<\/b> Fragilissimo<\/p>\n – Holy shit, the Commanders are actually… good?! November:<\/b> The Price of Eggs<\/p>\n – Good opportunity to check the place out December:<\/b> Olivia<\/p>\n – I’ve got to make some cookies. Yikes. What the hell was that?<\/p>\n (That could refer to either this whatever-it-was of a year or just my attempt at a write up. Or both. It’s both.)<\/p>\n Sometimes I wonder if things really are getting worse or we’re just conditioned to believe that. Perhaps the latter, given I began this year with an optimistic entry about us all living together on a big sphere. I guess we get fed a lot of stories every which way, and such is why we ended up, among other things, with this election result. Maybe it’s a silly question. Things just are. We control such a tiny bit.<\/p>\n Whatever the case, 2025 awaits. Like a cliff from which we are all about to plummet. Into the abyss. Into the future…<\/p>\n Another year. Another whole mess of things happening, and here I am on the last day of it trying to remember enough of it for a decent recap. Here goes… January: The Map – New year in a new age – International potluck – Another big ceasefire rally – Snow day – This better not … Continue reading “No More 2024”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2493","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\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– (Ash) Valentine’s Day<\/a>
\n– I’ll make a bunch and see what’s good
\n– Maybe I’ll actually do the Gummi Ship stuff this time.
\n– Ahhh! Extra day!<\/p>\n
\n– Oh, fuck, the Key Bridge collapsed?!
\n– Easter<\/a> at Brookside as usual<\/p>\n
\n– Is this plan going to work? I have no idea
\n– Shit. It’s going to be cloudy. Probably. Change destination? I don’t know!
\n– Screw it, let’s just get on the road and see what happens…
\n– Okay. We’re here…
\n– Holy shit, the clouds are clearing!
\n– WHOA<\/a><\/p>\n
\n– Star Wars game in the rain
\n– Whatever I do it’s never enough.
\n– Don’t rush off to the picnic and leave me to do all this shit!<\/p>\n
\n– Wait. It’s an actual tornado?! Wow.
\n– I’ve got to get this renewed before the deadline.
\n– That was fast.
\n– Oof, Biden, are you… uh, you okay, man?<\/p>\n
\n– Oh, shit, someone made an attempt on the Orange Thing.
\n– Someone not named Mike Pence is next to him now, wonder why that is…
\n– What’s Biden saying?
\n– Hooooooooooooooooly shit!<\/a>
\n– The Paris Olympic cauldron is a hot air balloon. Your argument is invalid.<\/p>\n
\n– USWNT Soccer Gold!
\n– Team USA basketball Gold, after biting off all nails.
\n– Also, Snoop Dogg.
\n– DNC a lot more cheerful than it might have been.
\n– States roll call!<\/p>\n
\n– RIP James Earl Jones
\n– Harris mops floor with Orange Thing in debate.
\n– She does it with one hand, too. The other is on her chin.
\n– No, NO! Not in my neighborhood!
\n– RIP Maggie Smith<\/p>\n
\n– This has been going for a goddamn year now and no end in sight.
\n– Expensive car work is expensive
\n– Did you just straight up kill the Post endorsement because Bezos didn’t want to piss off the Orange Thing?<\/p>\n
\n– Alright, it’s time to do this…
\n– And…
\n– Oh.
\n– No.
\n– Not again…
\n– What the fuck now?!<\/a>
\n– Fuck this.
\n– Pop up shop
\n– Welcome to Not Twitter<\/a>
\n– Apple pie
\n– A couple more opportunities. Can’t move forward yet, though.<\/p>\n
\n– So much to finish.
\n– Much needed reprieve.
\n– Is it happening this year or what?
\n– I guess so.
\n– Christmas gingerbread cake came out yummy. If needed more ginger.
\n– Roast beast
\n– Hidden surprise present
\n– RIP Jimmy Carter
\n– Moana 2<\/p>\n![](\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" "\\"Merry")
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