2019 Year in Review
By Bizarro
OK, who better than Bizarro to explain I have absolutely no idea what to make of 2019. The year for me has been, well, Bizarre-Oh. It has whipsawed back and forth between "Hey, that's good!" to be almost as quickly followed by "Oh, that's bad!"... Like this clip from "The Simpsons", which is good! It will probably be taken down for a DMCA Violation, which is bad...
There have been the usual retinue of personal triumphs and the high highs; only to be tripped up almost immediately with some personal disaster and low lows. Some new, close friends I've made along the way, along with close friends I failed to keep in touch with nearly as often as I wished I had (sorry! I'll do better this coming year, promise!). To quote "The Simpsons", again: It was the best of times, it was the BLURST OF TIMES? You stupid monkey!"
It was particularly strange weather-wise. The winter was very mellow right up to February, when it decided to dump about 3 feet of snow in a month. That was a LOT of shoveling for yours truly, as it was higher than the maw on the snowblower many days. All that snow caused some minor flooding (it was just starting to work it's way into our house before I was able to shovel a pathway for the snow and slush and semi-frozen water away from the house...). Also, with all the crazy snowstorms in Central Wisconsin, for the first time in my life I was snowed in at work. Since I was there already, I helped out with some of the coordination going on for clean up and such and worked a 32 hour shift. So, that was interesting, too, just to say I did it. No, I don't really want to do that again.
Then, in July, there was a massive storm in Central Wisconsin which knocked out power for up to 7 days in some areas (we're talking within city limits, not way out in the middle of nowhere... well, as much of a city limit as Central Wisconsin has, of course). Amusingly enough, I had just finished my shift at work and drove right through the middle of the storm that knocked over too many trees to count and power for almost a week. You know it's bad when Wal-Mart had to close for two days.
Then there was an assortment of projects I did of which I was relatively proud, and a ton of other things which I had planned, but never got around to finishing, alas. I also set a personal record with the number of posts I made this year--most of which were due to my dumb idea about the "31 Days of Hell-O-Ween": a daily posting, done mostly without a net. Somehow, it worked and I still have no idea how. But, here's to hoping I post even more next year. I have plans for a few longer form posts, so we'll see about that and burn that bridge when I get to it.
Here's something strange to me: Whenever there is a video that involves the Celestials from Marvel Comics, my drawings from this Blog have a 50% of showing up in the video. So, that's kinda cool to see my work show up in strange places. Too bad they don't know it's from me, but oh, well. Which reminds me... I will finally have get around to doing some cool drawings and painting involving Celestials. I was always a fan of Kirby's "Eternals", and with them showing up on the big screen soon, I may have to jump in front of that parade.
Overall, I'm still trying to piece together what the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks this year was about.
Oh, well, here's to hoping 2020 is, well, a perfect vision.
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Done digitally with Clip Studio Paint.
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