Best Post of 2004

Well… it’s that time — time to crown Pete’s best post of 2004. It was a good year — over 700 posts (almost 2 a day) and some of them actually didn’t suck. Color me surprised. Anyhow… let’s just finish this up, okay?

February 14 Ode to being Single

Sure, sure. We all need the self-loathing pity-parties from time to time. They’re bound to happen. So have your party, clean up the streamers, put away the refreshments, and get on with being happy. Being happy is a choice — sometimes it’s easier to make than others, but it’s a choice nonetheless. So choose to be happy. Do it now. Decide that for the rest of the day/week/month/year/whatever you’re going to be happy. Happy with yourself and happy for others. Then go off and live your life in such a way that when you do find The One, you’ll have lots of great stories to tell over dinner.

April 5 They Call Me a Liberal

I refuse to pretend that failure can be caused by anything but racism and sexism no longer exist, so they call me a liberal.

I don’t believe that “market forces” are some magical panacea give enough free money to lazy people, so they call me a liberal.

I don’t believe cutting the military from being able to blow up the world 10 times over down to only 8 times over soldiers is a bad thing, so they call me a liberal.

May 10 Ho vs. Hoe

Because it seems some people have a hard time distinguishing between the two, I’ve come up with a visual guide in case you have trouble distinguishing between a “ho” and a “hoe”.

August 9 Help Willing

But that’s not entirely true. There are lots of jobs like that. Problem is the lack of jobs meeting those requirements that also pay $25-30 an hour, which is a conservative estimate of what I think I’m worth. The problem, I believe, is not a job shortage, but that it doesn’t seem to be worth these companies’ time to post those ads because there are so few of us out there to respond. As a result, I think I need to take out a “Help Willing” ad, to let the companies who DO have openings of that variety that I’m available. It would go something like this…

September 26 Whoops.

Being worth a large number of points in scrabble is no reason to eat something. You might think it is if you look at some isolated incidents… like “Zucchini” or “Lasagna” or “Pie”… but you’d be wrong… because there are words like “Xylophone” which, for the record, is worth something like 47,000 points in scrabble and let me be the first to tell you that xylophones DO NOT digest well. I’m serious. Don’t try it.

So there you have it — voting is open for a weekish.