It was a pretty lame year.
But it’s behind us now, and there’s always next year.
I hope y’all have a great one.
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2009?By lex, on December 31st, 2009
December 31st, 2009 | Tags: Small Stuff | Category: Small Stuff
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Happy New Year, Lex – a year in which I hope to make my big comeback!
Dittos to the World Wide Lex brigade. All make up a great bunch of folks.
Hsppy New Year, Lex!
May 2010 be happy, prosperous and fulfilling for you and your family.
And Best Wishes to all of the Lex Dudes and Lex Babes. I am honoured to have spent another year in such great company.
P.S. On the lame part, I gotta agree.
Which is why this next year has to be better, I figure.
I’ll raise you a full moon over Mono Lake
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Is Mono lake still shrinking (evap,iirc), Joe?
It seems to be slowly coming back:
And to you too, sir. Thank you for all you give us.
This year has been a rather miserable one. 2010 has to be better. Oh, I’m sure it will have its dark days and challenges. They all do. But I can’t say I’ll miss ’09.
To better times indeed… Here’s to hope in the New Year for the Lexmeister and brood and for the rest of us all as well!
**cracks open a cold frosty can of cheap beer**
To Lex, the Lex Babes, and all the other denizens of this wonderful abode.
To Lex and all who post here: May 2010 be as bright as your dreams. This web sight was a bright and cheering place in 2009. Thank you all, and drive safe.
Is that a pic of the ocean, Lex? Because to tell the truth, I’ve been told many times that a view of the ocean is worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars on the price of a home.
After careful consideration I think it looks a lot like Kansas, only more blue. Which I won’t pay more for.
– Max
Happy New Year to all.
Buh Bye 09…C-ya…sure won’t miss ya.
Thanks to our host for the place to come and hang out, and thanks to all for the stimulating, and frequently entertaining, conversation. Someone else coined it in another post, but this is like coming to the Wardroom at the end of a long, hard day. Good friends all around. Thank you all for that.
Wishing a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2010 to each and every one.
Happy New Year! I’m ready for a new decade. Hope you all had a nice celebration last night – quiet time at home with financee in VA for me.
Goodbye 2009. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. I’m not sure what 2010 holds but my prayers for all of us is that it’s better than 2009.
Well, so much for that……. 2009 is history and it’s early 2010. I slept in late, but now have a nice hot cup of black coffee, and after that it’s time to fix breakfast.
I wish everyone in NeptunusLex land a wonderful productive, and profitable New Year! As noted above, it certainly SHOULD be better than the one that just passed.
More importantly, here’s to Victory over our enemies, and the safe return of all our troops. God Bless them all.
Happy New Year to all!
Not just a new year, but a new *decade*, of course, and I found myself thinking about W H Auden’s line “a low, dishonest decade”…written about the 1930s, of course, but in many ways seems to apply to the one just past.
Happy New Year to all who frequent this place and in particular to our host.
I agree the year was lame, (at best). Two Lex family milestones though. And that ain’t nothing.
Happy New Year to all. May 2010 be full of even more interesting discussions.
It was definitely not a banner year, not one of my faves, but looking back on it, it could have been far far worse. Let’s hope that 2010 doesn’t take us down ‘worse’, because it always can be. Lame is a good word. It wasn’t bad… wasn’t good. It just was.
Happy New Year, Lex, to you and yours.
Pessimism about the current path leads to optimism that a brighter alternative is to be found. Happy New Year to all you fellow pessimistsic optimists. Stephen
I have to agree that ’09 sucked with the exception of getting my PPL. That was great! Happy new year Lex and all!
Happy New Year, Lex and Friends! It’s such a joy for me to visit here, and I thank you all for it. Surely, SURELY, 2010 will be better.
I’m with most here – 2009 sucked the fuzzy wazoo, both personally and nationally. I’m setting up my intentions for 2010 to ensure a much better year.
Happiest of the new year to all the Denizens of Lex – and to our humble host my deepest wishes for prosperity and joy in 2010.
Like many (if not most) of you, 2009 has had its share of ups and downs for me. It was nearly a year ago that I found myself in the hospital undergoing multiple surgeries as a result of a motorcycle mishap. Much of the year was spent in various forms of painful therapy, and then came the added indignity of learning that the National Guard had unceremoniously dropped me from its roster, leaving us unemployed in an economy (and state) that was in a tight downward spiral.
Nevertheless, the good has far outweighed the bad. I have been blessed, humbled and amazed at the kindness and generosity of family, friends and strangers – even some of you in this very place! I have received countless words of encouragement, have been lifted up in prayer again and again, and have felt the peace and reassurance of the Spirit, reminding us that we are his dear, dear children – and that he will provide for us.
So, if I may, I would like to offer the first benediction for this new year with a reading from Psalms 27:
The Lord is my light and my salvation-
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life-
of whom shall I be afraid?
When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh,
when my enemies and my foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.
Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then will I be confident.
One thing I ask of the Lord,
this is what I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
For in the day of trouble
he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle
and set me high upon a rock.
Then my head will be exalted
above my enemies who surround me;
at his tabernacle I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Hear my voice when I call, O Lord;
be merciful to me and answer me.
My heart says of you, “Seek his face!”
Your face, Lord, I will seek.
Do not hide your face from me,
do not turn your servant away in anger;
you have been my helper.
Do not reject me or forsake me,
O God my Savior.
Though my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will receive me.
Teach me your way, O Lord;
lead me in a straight path
because of my oppressors.
Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing out violence.
I am still confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
The voice of hope and faith at the start of a new day.
Thank you.
PS and a new decade.
The new decade doesn’t start until 1 Jan 2011. There was no AD Zero year.
Psalms 27 is a very good choice to start a new and, potentially, fearsome year.
MajHarvey ~ thank you. I always look forward to your perspective. One of the bright sides to an otherwise dismal year is that you are alive and here and we get to enjoy you. I am glad you survived your crash and the painful therapies. And the unceremonious dumping from the NG roster. My prayers are with you for a healthy and prosperous 2010 as they are with all of those here.
Thanks, Hf6. I’ve been reading Lex’s blog faithfully for more than 5 years now, but tend to not post so much on the political musings that seem to have taken center stage as of late.
Lord willing, this year will be quite a big one for us:
I hope to be 1) ordained this spring, 2) graduate from seminary in June, 3) commissioned as a chaplain in August, and 4) put in an interservice transfer to the Navy sometime in the fall. Hopefully, I’ll be back on active duty a year from now – which will require me to think of a new login name, as I’ll no longer be “MajHarvey.”
Major,
One of my best Navy shipmates was a West Point Grad, former Army special forces, LCDR Chaplain. No problem, with the possible exception of one weekend in December.
Beat Army!
You’re not talking about Griffin, are you?