fine whine

As I look back over a year's worth of posts (over three hundred of them, even) I find that a great many aren't really, well, all that great. They'll fill their function for me and my meory, but for readability and entertainment value quite a few are rather lacking.

So I've selected what are probably what I'd point out as the best of 2004, except that some of them are only on the list for novelty value. A casual glance at my notes reveals that I felt far better about what I was writing in the latter half of the year, but beyond that I have few conclusions to draw.

• 11 January: an early stab at observational humor.
• 15 January: a strange dream that gets only stranger as it goes on. Cameo appearance by Ernie Hudson.
• 23 January: another dream, but celebrity-free.
• as for February, well, I found nothing of note.
• 4 March: a little ditty about work that figures into what happens later, in some form.
• 29 April: a rant about PowerPoint that was but one of many, and the most revealing.
• May, too, was without much merit. As an excuse I might point out that I became a new homeowner that month.
• 26 June: a farily well-written wrapup of some movies I'd watched, and a catchphrase I forgot to try to use since then.
• 16 July: to include it is cheating, since the novel's from 2003, but here is my love letter to my 2003 NaNo 'novel', or at least some tasty excerpts.
• 17 July: Jessica and I hit the road and I had some brief, but notable, insights about death and stuff.
• 21 July: midly forgettable movies sometimes make for less forgettable posts about them.
• 12 August: an extensively researched piece about the real story of The Straight Story.
• 28 August: a public service announcement: how to dance.
• 3 September: last year saw a lot of haiku from me, but the bat poems go above and beyond, as it were.
• 8 September: an attempt to combine humor and whining about the BMV, among other things.
• 29 September: an uproariously funny IRC log that's really funny to me and Heep, and probably nobody else.
• 12 October: trouble at work, typed from the trenches.
• 3 November: a long-winded but cathartic rant about voting.
• 6 November: musings about shared knowledge, the capabilities of the internets, and Jesse Ventura.
• 23 November: a long winded acount, post-bad-stuff, about team building at work.
• 25 November: turkey day special, remininscing about music.
• 30 November: six hundred words about failing to write fifty thousand.
• December doesn't seem long enough ago to fondly look upon any particular chunk of it.

And those are all you really need to have read last year. Thanks for wading through the rest!