2016: A Year End Review
I wasn’t really intending this to be the first post of 2016. People will likely comment that it’s a tad late. It’s not like I wasn’t intending to post more often. I just didn’t. One of those things really.
In the end 2016 was a really rough year for me - for multiple reasons.
Reason 1: My wife convinced me to buy two Golden Retriever pups at the end of 2015. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Turns out the boisterous animals were a bit much for the place we were renting so…
Reason 2: We ended up buying a house to house said animals. Some people might call this an overreaction. It really wasn’t. Unfortunately the animals now loose on a property we had to maintain ourselves suddenly discovered a hitherto unknown talent for wanton destruction which led to…
Reason 3: Massive financial expenditure to ensure the house remained standing. Fences were erected. Locks purchased and installed. The entire garden had to be revived. This led to financial problems exacerbated by…
Reason 4: Difficult work conditions. I ended up with big projects and short deadlines. Not the best stress relieving situation. In order to try and make our deadlines I ended working from home a bit more often which was exactly the time when…
Reason 5: The dogs ate our electrical system. With every sign of enjoyment. You’d think it would be bad for their health but they showed no ill effects whatsoever. With deadlines looming I had to call out an electrician to try and restore some semblance of life to our house. Said electrician then noticed that…
Reason 6: Our fuse box was on the brink of setting the house on fire. I’m not sure the dogs would have noticed but I suspected my wife would comment. I told the electrician to replace said fuse box. He said he would and ended up bumping into our Plumber…
Reason 7: Who was busy replacing most of the house. It was then that we realised that the tiles used everywhere the eye could see were no longer on the market and effectively irreplacable. The plumber announced we’d need to replace just enough of these that retiling the entire house was not an option. At this point I realised…
Reason 8: That it had been more than a year since I had updated my blog. I told my wife that I absolutely had to make sure I had at least one post in 2016 and that I really couldn’t help trying to salvage the property and that we would never buy dogs ever again.
On top of that Leonard Cohen and David Bowie passed away. That’s just insult to injury.
I’m happy to see the end of 2016. Who knows - maybe I’ll even update the blog in 2017? Stranger things have happened…
