Get thee behind me, 2011!

Well, we’re about to file away 2011 in the books. What kind of year was it? For me and my family, it was a decent year. For the country, it was a pretty volatile year. Who knows where things go from here, huh?

In February of 2012, this blog will have been in existence for ten years. That kind of excites me and frightens me, at the same time. When I started this, I figured I’d have things to say for about a year. Maybe two, tops. And then I’d move on to something else. Instead, here we are. Wow.

So here’s some of what transpired in my little corner of the Interweb in 2011! Links to individual posts that are favorites of mine are below, but I’d also call attention to several posting series: Page One, in which I used photos of the first pages of books to launch meditations; Saturday Centus, a weekly exercise in microfiction that also involves a wonderful group of talented folks; and my glacially-paced X-Files rewatch effort, X-Files Case Reports. I also continued to enjoy my Something for Thursday series of music posts, and my even more sporadic (and thus horribly inappropriately named) Beatles Song of the Week. Finally, I only managed to produce a single post in Fixing the Prequels: Revenge of the Sith, but I’m thinking I need to get that one done in 2012.

As far as other sites go, I still have my Flickr stream for photos (favorites below), in two mosaics, one for the first half the year and one for the second). I enjoy taking pictures, and sometimes I wonder if I shouldn’t invest in a better camera and try taking a serious approach to it as a hobby. Maybe…but I’d also like to take up geocaching, and I can’t get every gizmo I want! (And I suspect a new laptop will become necessary in 2012…this poor machine of mine dates from 2007, which makes it long-in-the-tooth for laptops). I also launched a Tumblr blog, Driftwood Upon the Bosporus, but I can’t really claim to be particularly enthusiastic about it. Tumblr tends to be more pictorial than I generally favor — although I like pictorial stuff just fine, I like words more — and I’m pretty ingrained here. So my Tumblr efforts tend to be, well, of the non-exciting variety. I tend to post occasional bits of political snark there, as well as cool photos when I’m in the mood. And this generally boils down to people (mostly beautiful women) wearing overalls or getting hit with pies. Go figure.

Anyway, here we are: 2011 in review.

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