It occurs to me that 2012 is almost surely the twentieth anniversary of my hearing of the miscellany we now call the Internet via an article about Mosaic and the barely nascent web in a (possibly defunct) magazine called Puget Sound Computer User.

Incredibly, I seems I have made my living from the Internet more or less since 1996 or so.

Rearranged the heck out of the TV room furniture, more to come. For some reason we had a bunch of glassware in an inaccessible corner and now all of that is out closer to the dining area.

With luck, I will have resurrected all my old-media devices by the end of the week. We had the turntable and tape deck all set up for the first couple years in this house but we moved a bunch of stuff around about three years ago and they never got hooked up again.

Which reminds me, I have a mysteriously non functional 1080p projector I am due to take an annual crack at again.

Last night I tormented myself with visions of a plumbing-pipe based flat-panel TV mount. Measuring, counting, keeping a parts manifest. Most of this was in my sleep, except every so often I would convince myself that the device needed a crucial part that I did not know the name or availability of and WHAM my eyes would pop open and I would scrub the Internet fruitlessly for whatever seussian pipe joint I had imagined.

Hunh, I suppose that all can legitimately be considered a pipe dream. Although I am confident to do so constitutes etymology abuse.

All over everywhere today, but, full of wise thought: Woody Guthrie’s “New Years Rulins”, 1943:

1. WORK MORE AND BETTER
2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE
3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
4. SHAVE
5. TAKE BATH
6. EAT GOOD – FRUIT – VEGETABLES – MILK
7. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY
8. WRITE A SONG A DAY
9. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES – LOOK GOOD
10. SHINE SHOES
11. CHANGE SOCKS
12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN
13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS
14. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT
15. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER
16. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN
17. DONT GET LONESOME
18. STAY GLAD
19. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING
20. DREAM GOOD
21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY
22. SAVE DOUGH
23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DONT WASTE TIME
24. SEND MARY AND THE KIDS MONEY
25. PLAY AND SING GOOD
26. DANCE BETTER
27. HELP WIN WAR – BEAT FASCISM
28. LOVE MAMA
29. LOVE PAPA
30. LOVE PETE
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT