Happy New Year from the LLamas!

Last year, I had a pretty extensive New Year's Eve posting, with the following resolutions:

1. Eat more guacomole
2. Be more of a dick at work
3. Watch more bad movies
4. Stop mooching the neighbor's wireless
5. Did I mention being a dick at work? More of that.
6. Blog more, but less Dennis Hastert and more Melissa Theuriau.

So how did I do?

1. Guacomole consumption: up by about 75%, mainly by experimenting with some different recipes at home. 06 was a good year for the garden so there was a lot of different salsa and gazpacho experimentation going on.

2. Being a dick at work: 06 started off bad, went to worse, than S.R. Sirling levels of fun, then suddenly weird, a quiet interlude where nothing stupid happened, bad, to the scene from the end of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I was Tuco, to indifferent, to suddenly and surpisingly good, then very quiet, to a long stretch of very busy but not so bad. And that was just the first week of January. Net result: I'm still a face smasher in a den of back-stabbers, but there's a certain honor in that.

3. Watch more bad movies: failed in that one, too. Saw even fewer movies this year (I mean, for goodness sakes, I still haven't seen Borat). Still haven't seen Firefly, for that matter.

4. Stop mooching the neighbor's wireless: Success! We went wireless last March and never looked back. Still have yet to play Robbo in Age of Empires online, but so far have avoided the sultry siren call of Warhammercraft that my buddy and IT Elven Master Aaron has been trying to get me to play.

5. Being even more of a dick at work: I've centered this on harassing the crap out of the smokers in my building and the one next door by naming the breezeway between the buildings "Emphysema Alley" complete with a Faux-authentic sign and all. And I did set up a Career Nite Event for April 1, with signs announcing

"Classics, Religion, and Philosophy Department Career Nite. Come find how your C.R.aP. major can help you get a fabulous job! Recruiters will be there from Barnes and Noble, Kinko's, Starbucks and Home Depot! Find out which apron is right for YOU!"

I also signed up our Dean, a man who definitely put the "Oooooo" in "Fop" for the moisturizer of the month club.

6. More Melissa Theuriau, less Dennis Hastert

I think we've definitely evolved more as a blog away from talking politics all the time because basically blogs that just talk politics all the time are rather tiresome.

The New Year's Resolutions for 2007? Check back later today.

Yips! from Robbo: My belated best wishes for the New Year as well. As we've done for the past fifteen years now, the Missus and I spent New Year's Eve carousing with our Llama Military Correspondent and his family, this year's festivities taking place at Fort LMC and in the shadow of the LMC's imminent departure for the Sandbox.

As always, the evening's entertainment was provided by the Missus and the LMC, who have a kind of Beatrice/Benedict thing going that is guaranteed to amuse. Mrs. LMC and I generally just sit back and watch, not interfereing except to strike up the blades when the action threatens to become too earnest.

Anyhoo, a good time was had by all, although on the drive back up on Route 17 between Yorktown and Fredericksburg we were practically swimming, it was raining so hard.