2008. a year between 2007 and 2009 only?

So that was it. Another year gone, another year older and no wiser than when it started. Or are we.
We lost the likes of Eartha Kitt, Harold Pinter, Heath Ledger, Isaac Hayes, old hands like Widmark and Newman and Bo Diddley and good old gun toteing Charton Hesston and recently Oliver Postgate. Paul Burrell is still alive but his celebrity status, career prospects and any sense of decency are deceased.

Its easy to mention those who provide entertainment or are well known in life to mark a years passing by remembering their contributions in the year of their passing, it serves well and is a common feature of year reviews. But this year might be easier remembered, as the year that the brown sticky stuff hit the air circulation device, heralding that the future, financially anyway, will be at best bleak and at worse, well lets just say, its will be dripping from the afore mentioned air circulation device, or fan and Eartha Kitt, if you are of the hard of thinking.

But that, the above, is as downbeat as this little ditty is going to get. I, like many in 2008 have realised that my future (my Honda related future) is not as secure as I thought it was when buying ‘ Grumpy Towers’ a few years back, as I nonchalantly decided redundancy and unemployment insurance wasn’t required quoting “ Ha! Reduncy my arseium! (Mmm… I hear you muse, he speaks Latin) Where’s Honda going! And besides, there’s plenty of work in Swindon” Three exclamation marks are well placed, for there was plenty of pointing and self-assured gesticulating.
So, rather forced, because redundancy is hanging like the Sword of Damocles I am looking at different and interesting employment options. Can’t really say what at the moment but quite a change from shouting at cyclists from a big truck.

All in all 2008 has been ok for us at the towers. A grandson, good health, close relatives beating dire medical conditions, being paid for the first time for writing nonsense, not committing murder upon ‘da youff’ who infest the towers, all features of the past year. So really my complaining has just been done for sport.
But I have a gut feeling 2009 is going to be a toughy. I just hope I’m indulging in my normal pessimism.

So Anyhoo. To anyone who reads this guff (is there anyone?), thanks…and haven’t you got anything better to do?
I hope 2008 has been kind to you, may 2009 not be too hard on us and if we get to 2010 unscathed….lets try and annoy people on the way. I will be.

Happy New Year.