2012: The Year in Stack, Jesus Built My Hotrod, NFL Picks Week 17
Friday, December 28, 20122013 is two days away, so I had to do the mandatory website year-in-review:
Highlights
Work promotion!
– Africa trip!
– Colorado trip!
– Amazing, beloved new phone!
– Election results
– Fully appreciating Flipboard and Instagram (minus the latter’s terms of service)
– Finding this grilled brussels sprouts recipe
– Ten-year Northwestern reunion was a terrific weekend
– Writing once a week on here: about an 80% success, which I’ll call a total success in Internet terms
Lowlights
– Foot tendon ownage
– Crazy heat, crazy weather, and the crazy enviro future that portends
– Vet bills – for some reason the pets all decided to develop one condition or another this year
– Vanishing Internet self
– Didn’t see family as much as I wanted to
– The Steelers’ 2012 season
– Gary Bettman, a.k.a. the reason I have no NHL to turn to with the end of said Steeler 2012 season
https://twitter.com/pat_stack/statuses/281871371125010432
– Not quite the fitness year I had hoped, thanks in part to the foot injury
– Still mad about the Steelers
WordPress helpfully sent me this year-in-the-blog review thing in the middle of drafting this post. That collard-green recipe has been my most-popular post for years now.
- And as for 2013:- More industry networking
– Back in the scuba habit
– Back in the running habit
– Figure out what the hell I’m going to follow in place of the NHL
– Assorted other stuff - Chicagoist posted this classic vid after the death of Ministry guitarist Mike Scaccia, and as a result I have probably listened to it 85 times in the past four days:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuk62WtK4sk
- And now, more than halfway into the 1 p.m. games, my NFL picks for the final week of the regular season. I’m on the comeback trail to .500 – now at 117-118 overall. Time to get this over the hump before the playoffs.
Last week: 11-5; Overall: 117-118
At Buffalo -3.5 NY Jets
At Cincinnati -2.5 Baltimore
At Pittsburgh 0 Cleveland
Houston -7 At Indianapolis
At Tennessee -4 Jacksonville
At NY Giants -7.5 Philadelphia
Chicago -3 At Detroit
At Atlanta 0 Tampa Bay
At New Orleans -5 Carolina
At Denver -16 Kansas City
At San Diego 0 Oakland
At San Francisco -16.5 Arizona
At Seattle -10.5 St. Louis
Green Bay -3.5 At Minnesota
At New England -10 Miami
At Washington -3 DallasUPDATE 12/31: Well that was anti-climactic. I ended up going 8-8 today, which means I’m still exactly one game under .500 for the regular season. At least the playoffs also count.