Day 72: Random Things of 2019: Part 1

- 2019. It’s the last year of the decade. Now we will have to specify that we love Nineteen-Twenties music.

- Not really realizing it was the last year of the decade until now.

- Drinking more water and much less alcohol.

- More water in the oceans because Antarctica glaciers are melting.

- Looking at a red waterfall on Antarctica on Google Earth.

- Using Google Earth to create a path and calculate the distance of a hike.

- Taking that hike. Taking many hikes in the Alaskan wilderness.

- Living in Alaska for 4 months.

- Not drinking for 4 months.

- Renting a car for the first time.

- Drinking Wild Turkey Rare Breed for the first time and not caring for it too much.

- New socks.

- New white shirts.

- New pajama pants

- A hole in old pajama pants and not wanting to let them go because the pockets actually hold my phone while I sit down for breakfast.

- Reading Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milnes for the first time.

- Reading more books in 4 months than I have ever read in the course of a year.

- Pickin up David Foster Wallace again and thinking that it could have been better.

- Creating many lists that I’ll have to put in a top ten list.

- Professionally taking photos for customers for the first time.

- Taking many pictures of moose.

- Almost running into a moose.

- Having a moose snort at me.

- Seeing a herd of bison in the wild.

- Riding on the Yukon River in a boat.

- Walking across the Yukon River with my feet. It was frozen.

- Being in a land so quiet you never want to be anywhere else.

- Writing a personally successful blog for the first time.

- 2019 has provided many amazing firsts, it has been exhausting, and was full of wonderful growing pains.

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Author’s Note #1: One hundred years ago the German Worker’s Party formed. Is it a coincidence that we are seeing White Nationalists organize around the world? Is it a reunion or are the teens of every century filled with insecurity and hate?

Author’s Note #2: On a positive note, the 1st class postage stamp dropped from 3¢ to 2¢. Probably the last time that happened.

Author's Note #3: Let's stop talking about 1919.