{"id":5241,"date":"2022-01-01T02:42:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2022-01-01T05:14:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T23:14:34","slug":"2021-what-did-i-accomplish-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"2021 – WHAT DID I ACCOMPLISH THIS YEAR?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today is the last day in 2021. I’m not sorry to say I’ll be glad to see it gone.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>\"Scott<\/a>2021 wasn’t a bad year but any year, especially the second in a row, where we’re all still dealing with Covid 19, isn’t anything to brag about.\u00a0 I thought I would take a moment to look back on this year and list some of my accomplishments.\u00a0 So here’s another self-serving blahg but really a blahg to help remind me what I did do this year and what might be left to be done in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I wrote 21 blahgs in 2021, 22 if I manage to get this one posted today, so that’s pretty good.\u00a0 I looked at my blahg situation and realized back in January that if I doubled down, I could reach the 100 blahg mark by the fall.\u00a0 I did even better by publishing the 100th blahg, THIS IS 100, PART ONE<\/a>, on August 25th and if you include this blahg, again pending it’s publication today, this will be number 107.\u00a0 I posted my first blahg, THE BLAHG & THE MOST HAPPY SOUND<\/a>, on August 2nd, 2011 and ten years later I’m still writing.\u00a0 If you want to know more about me or what I’ve been up to in the past 10 years then read the previous 106 blahgs or at least the recaps THIS IS 50, PART ONE.<\/a>, THIS IS 50, PART TWO<\/a>, THIS IS 100, PART ONE<\/a>, and THIS IS 100, PART TWO<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the 100 blahg goal, I had set some other tasks for myself.\u00a0 If you check out the first blahg I posted in 2021,\u00a0 THE FALSE DUCKS VIDEO BLAHG #4: OH, DIDN\u2019T I RAMBLE<\/a>, I detailed some other things I wanted to do this year.\u00a0 The corresponding blahg, THE RAMBLE UNPACKED<\/a>, updated details on some books I wanted to read, some albums I wanted to listen to, some movies I wanted to watch, and a cuckoo clock I wanted to repair.\u00a0 I accomplished all of that and more.\u00a0 I also continued on a goal to watch all of Bette Davis’ films in chronological order.\u00a0 I think I had started this goal in 2020 and it continued this year.\u00a0 I had started with Bad Sister from 1931 and worked my way through to “Pocketful of Miracles” from 1961, which is a Christmas movie, before taking a break for the Christmas holidays.\u00a0 That’s a total of 71 films and it would have been 72 if I could have found a place to watch her second film, “Seed”, from 1931.\u00a0 If anyone knows where I can view this film, please let me know.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 I also got back to collecting all of the volumes in The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak.\u00a0 I had previously purchased Volume One because it contained the release of “I had no head and my eyes were floating way up in the air” which was submitted in the 1970s for publication in Harlan Ellison’s “The Last Dangerous Visions”.\u00a0 That anthology has never been published but that lost Simak story is available in the new Simak anthology “I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories: The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume One”.\u00a0 \"The I began to purchase all of the other volumes because they also included his War and Western stories in addition to his short Science Fiction stories. Open Road Media Science & Fantasy<\/span> who publish these volumes usually will release four volumes at once in electronic format then months later will release them in paperback format all on the same date.\u00a0 I had purchased the first eight in paperback and was waiting for the publication of volumes 9-12.\u00a0 The electronic versions of these last four volumes have been available for a few years but only Volume Eleven, “Dusty Zebra And Other Stories”, was released in October this year.\u00a0 Why skip nine and ten and also omit twelve?\u00a0 It boggled my mind.\u00a0 My wife got me Volume Eleven for Christmas.\u00a0 Here’s hoping in 2022 we see the other three missing volumes in paperback.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Looping back to the topic of Covid 19, I am proud to say I have both vaccines and a few days ago on December 27th, I got my booster shop.\u00a0 My arm was sore for a day and I was tired the day after receiving the booster but everything else was fine.\u00a0 My message for everyone for 2022:\u00a0 GET A VACCINE OR GET YOUR BOOSTER!\u00a0 My brother and his wife and children didn’t get to come up to Canada for Christmas this year because the family came down with Covid 19.\u00a0 I know my sister-in-law was pretty sick for a few days but I shutter at the thought of how worse it could have been if she hadn’t had her vaccines.\u00a0 That’s all I’ll say about Covid for the rest of this blahg.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Just before Christmas, my daughter Abbie and I were able to attend the Transformers Convention in Mississauga, December 10-12.\u00a0 The convention in 2020 had to be cancelled due to, I’m not saying it because I promised, and this past July’s convention was moved to this December.\u00a0 My daughter and I usually have a blast at these conventions and we had a good time this year as well.\u00a0 Here are a couple of YouTube videos of the dealer room.\u00a0 They’re not mine but it gives you an idea of how much product is to be found.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n