i use to be real big into End of the Year lists. I guess I'm not anymore...it was hard to think of 10 albums that I really liked. Anyway, if i had to make a "2008 Mixtape" this would be it. I dont think all of these songs came out this year, but these were what i listened to a lot....

1. "Get Some Sleep" - Lemuria
2. "Chips Ahoy" - the Hold Steady
3. "Wendy Clear" - Fake Problems
4. "You're Not Afraid of the Dark, Are You?" - Look Mexico
5. "Call to the Comptrollers Office" - Bridge and Tunnel
6. "Vinegar and Baking Soda" - Scream Hello
7. "Mechanical" - Lemuria
8. "Massive Nights" - The Hold Steady
9. "Foolish Optimism" - Jena Berlin
10. "Sponsorship For Life" - Antillectual
11. "Seconds Before the Bottom Drops Out" - Glass and Ashes
12. "When People Have Something to Say" - Worn in Red
13. "Track 2" - Make Do and Mend
14. "Posterchild" - Crossbearer
15. "They Know Not" - The Hope Conspiracy
16. "Stars" - Hum
17. "Bleach Funeral" - City of Ships
18. "Chimps Night Out" - OleHole
19. "Young Bloods" - the Bronx.

So there's that. I havent had a day off since December 7th.

Last night I showed up to a petsit and one of the dogs wasn't in the back yard. I spent two hours with another sitter and my boss looking for the dog. The dogs at this clients house stay in the basement and have a dogie door that lets them go in and out of the house as they please. Apparently the missing dog got out of the fence sometime between my morning visit and when i returned for the evening. There was no opening in the fence anywhere, no holes to get out. There was still no sign of him this morning.

My boss just called me to tell me that he was hit by a car and died. This is not my fault, nor is our companies fault...the dog simply jumped the fence or got out somehow. We never touched the gate, he must have just been spooked by the fireworks and jumped the fence and got turned around. Its no ones fault but i still feel a ton of guilt and have no idea how to handle this situation, and cannot believe this happened on one of my sits and with my dogs that I was paid to take care of.

I bought/aquired 106 records this year, increasing my collection by
117%.

So yeah it was a pretty good year.

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Next year
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Bulldogs
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Here is a good example of how difficult of a person I am..just now at
Moes I got a little offended whenthe cashier said "merry Christmas" to
me. Even though I celebrate Christmas I don't like people making
assumptions about me. And it's not because I don't believe in god and
people assuming I do makes me mad (I'm not an idiot like those kinds
of "atheist", I'm not even an atheist...just really lazy and
apathetic), I just don't like anyone making an assumption about me.
How do you know I'm not fucking Jewish or a Jehova that hates Christmas?

I really should care about more important things than this....
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