2007 — A very good year for myself, my family, and my blog. This is a bit of a review of the year and a month-by-month rundown of what I blogged about this year (you can trust me when I say it took awhile to assemble). In 365 days, I managed to tap out 118 blog entries, roughly once every 3 days or so, which I think is a pretty good number — it allows everyone to catch up with you before you move on, yet keeps the juices flowing, as it were.

I had a lot of life changes in 2007, personally — a 5-week trip to Australia, two new cars, a new job after 7.5 years, a new son and my first shot as a father. These events alone would have kept me busy and amused, but ontop of those we had any number of smaller things that kept us involved, stressed, or otherwise occupied. Hopefully my blog reflects a little of this as well as giving you, the reader, something to think about in the meantime. I look forward to 2008 and our conversations!

January: As per usual, I started the year off with a rant about new years resolutions and so forth, followed by my transition from the crappiness of MoveableType to Wordpress, a move that proved to be wonderful because I actually enjoyed writing for once. A few pictures of snow and destroyed houses followed. Then began my wife’s trip to Australia and her subsequent rogering by VirginBlue Airlines.

February was a slow month, mostly involving planning for my trip to Australia, commenting on a few funny news stories, and then relating my very long play-by-play of my trip to Australia. However, there was a good whack of pretty Australian pictures to see, so that’s not all bad, is it?

March was filled with trips to Tumby Bay, enjoying the local flora and fauna of Australia, their sense of filesystems for trucks, steel-making facilities, and brews. I even managed to finish a book! Of course, I returned to normal life in later March and found a very dirty water heater, but still had time to evaluate some airlines.

April, soggy April. You started with an account of my trip back from the Land Down Under, then quickly followed with some very cute penguin pictures, a musing about being mentally hardwired to have religion, and a whack at the stupidity over the Don Imus hubub. News sources did not fail to provide amusement, while a movie about cross-dressing shoe designers distracted me. I happened to discover the beauties of FlightAware, and I returned home to da nortlands.

May must have been the month to wax philosophical or talk about real life, as evidenced in these posts. We started out talking about the concept of a perfect life. I then changed tunes to talk about the lucky rabbit in my backyard, the sneaky teenagers in my neighborhood, grandmas that should never be allowed behind a wheel, and starting some plants. Back to thinking hard as we touched on forced health mandates by employers and computer systems that won’t forget your sins. Somewhere in there we had Easter, too. Don’t forget the Press Release about our upcoming baby! To help with my computer addiction, I got a larger monitor and satisfied my Martha Stewartisms by converting a toilet into an herb garden. We talked about Taboos in America and the happiness that is Ron Paul. I ranted on about our veterans and jackasses behind the wheel. Last, but not least, we all grabbed our mugs and thought fondly of coffee.

June must have been hot, because our discussions started out with ice cube fairies. I lamented about our financial inability to fun a trip to Denver and then completely lost the ability to find a topic to write about. The video of Connie Talbot brought me to copious tears; apparently a lot of other people agreed as she went on to get 2nd in Britian’s Got Talent. I went and commented on Aussie politics and the new Twitter service which I later abandoned because it was stupid. Your marital litterbox was the subject of a posting, as was my unborn child’s heartbeat and his future. I think I should have spurned a new Internet term with “Medium Talking”, but no major media centers caught on. I had had enough of conservative religious hypocrites at one point, but my interest in tracking currency kept me going. I must have been working a lot to think about styles of completing projects.

July was a slower month, starting out talking about how kids address adults, then moving on for a picture-fest of the Clintons, Latham, and a bunny on parade. I then entered a Blog-Off run by Courtney Slavin of Five Second Dance Party, and made postings about the words, “Survivor“, “Hope“, “Breasts” (mmmm….), and “Victory“. And, just because summers aren’t expensive enough, I had to buy a new car.

August saw me going on about energy drinks and laziness of the tongue in marriage before diving in to yet another Blog-Off (again run by the beautiful and talented Mrs. Slavin), upon which I talked about “Religion“, “Attitude“, and “Dichotomy” all within a week. Making fun of stupid country songs was on my agenda, as well as showing off our new baby pram. Idiots plagued me many times, refusing to talk to the answering machine, preventing us from getting pancakes, and annoying us with unsolicited parental advice. But, hey — who doesn’t like a good shower? I tried to kick up some criticism but my readership wasn’t about to be bothered, so I just mused about the calling of your profession.

September was a month of cleaning up used computer parts, waxing on about the days of printed materials, and cooking as kids. Of course, while we’re on the subject of cooking, who can forget a sexy Rachel Ray? She might be cute, but she’s gotta cut down on the turkey burger use. My child had better be grateful, even if we are poor. Nah, just as long as they’re not ungrateful bastards I think we’ll end up fine together. Birthdays may come and go, but useful advice about fixing your refrigerator door is always in style. And you would never believe what some people have in their closet!

In October we reviewed a large array of subjects, anywhere from letting children drink alcohol, to the concept of Cuddle Parties, and how we use weather in our conversations. In amongst this I got lambasted by an asshat, had a rant about Jessica Seinfeld’s book, and spoke about the inadequacies of Blog Action Day. All that work writing got me sick, but I must have still managed to be coherent enough to get a good review and finish off the month with a musing about soundtracks in our lives.

November wasn’t much of a writing month, but it was a great month for having your first son, a baby that never ceases to amaze me, especially when he looks at you. Of course, I’m entertaining him with 80’s music when I can. I also posted the blog entry I wrote when we first found out that we were expecting him, which was a time of uncertainty and fear, mostly. It all turned out fine, however, and I sealed up November with an abstract piece about the calm of a winter’s night.

In December I acknowledged that I had had a great lapse in posts, but explained why I had dried up, then promptly managed to make it a good month for blogging. My idea on how to solve the gay marriage problem ended up being a pretty good discussion. My long-term battle with credit cards finished in December, but the snow continued to screw up my life. I talked about the stupidity of baby boy clothing options, asked my readership to check in (a few of you bothered, thank you), and gave my take on the U.S. housing bubble crash. Pictures of another new car adorned a blog posting, but soon after I horrified you with my youthful acne story. A Christmas Greeting found you all on the 25th and for the rest of the month I distracted you with my new, “Scanner Love”, series of images, starting with The Hitchhiker, Jack and Jose, Two Kittens, some 1950s Cuties, and a very Chubby Bubby.

WHAT A YEAR!!!