I have this tradition going on a few years. I go out to the liquor store and buy a bottle of nice scotch and a few good cigars (monte Cristo's) and I spend the night alone, drinking scotch and smoking a cigar or two. This year was kind of fortunate because frankly we have a Flames game on and after two periods it looks like a solid teeth kicking is taking place.
You see, on the 24th and 25th and 26th I usually have family things happening. Now I would be dishonest if I said I love spending time with my family, its something that needs to be done and is tolerable. But there are lots of scars and lots of negatives that I've really struggled to overcome and become the better man.
But this tradition, this drinking and smoking is all about putting the year in the past. I don't have to work until July 3rd, so its an opportunity to file the previous year into the file cabinet of my sometimes twisted and dangerous mind and turn the key locking it away.
And 2016 was a miserable year. Between the bad economy throwing dear friends of mine our of work and into scary situations, and even the professional what I would call failures of the year where I lost a lot of income through to economic reasons, this drinking and smoking by myself is an opportunity to take all of those negatives and put them in a burlap bag with a couple of kittens and throw it into a raging river to sink and perish.
And yes, I'm loaded and when I'm loaded things can get weird.
But the real reason for this post besides to vomit things into the electrons of the anonymous internet is to thank you the members of the CalgaryPuck community.
Hang on my glass is empty.
ahh sweet sweet scotch that will make tomorrow morning an exercise in pain and lethargy.
But continuing my thoughts. I'm not new, I know that I'm interpreted here at times as that weirdo on this board. And sometimes as that angry right wing anti-Oilers anti-Liberal Anti-NDP bastard with a closed mind and a closed ear. But at the end of the day, I stay with this community because I love the level of communication.
I love the idea of electrons bouncing back and forth between IP addresses with thoughts and opinions moving at the speed of light. And sometimes, I tend to think of this board as far less dysfunctional and threatening then family members because at the end of the day, the thing is that we don't know each other and we don't sit face to face with each other so there is a higher level of honesty here and hurt feelings are responded to with silence and not a nasty in your face blast of rage and anger.
I know weird right.
I know that I am certainly not on the same page as a bunch of posters here. But at the same time and you know who you are, I respect your opinions and value things and like a brick wall at some point maybe just maybe a opinion is broken through and changed and as a person I become better informed and maybe a little more balanced.
Now I'm not going to sit here and roll out a grocery list of individual posters to recognize them or thank them or do something lame and tear inducing like that, because frankly everyone on this board deserves the best and most successful 2017.
So I leave this post with a few Christmas wishes
To every single one of you, I wish you absolutely nothing but the best in the new year. I hope in these treacherous and dangerous times economically that you all come through unscathed and unharmed.
I wish you all peace and happiness in the new year whether your a person with a family and kids, or that single person looking for that connection in the real world, I hope you all find everything that you want and need.
I would include a thing for all mankind, but I'm unsure of where that would start except. I wish for a peaceful and preposterous 2017 in what appears to be a scary time where world anger looks to cast a dawning shadow over the concepts of compassion, and unity and peace. I know that we're all freaked out by the indications of a new cold war with Trump on one side and Putin on the other with a new arms race and hot points all over the world. But I remind you of this very important fact. The only way that you can change the world is to look after your family and to help your fellow neighbors or workmates or friends. Take care of them and the world will become a better place.
To the people on this board who are sick or suffering or have family members that are sick and suffering I wish nothing but the best, and pray for nothing more then hope. I hope that everything works out and everything gets better.
And to Scarlett Johansson, I sent you my address, that would be the best gift of all, but I know it simply won't happen.
Merry Christmas to all, peace to all mankind and I still have a 3rd of a bottle to go.
Thanks for the indulgence CalgaryPuck.
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Thank's CC, good read and a little insight into your mind (I always figured it was completly empty in there...). From one drunk to another Happy Holidays and may the best of whatever you want land at your feet.
Yes, 2016 has been a rough one for all for a lot of financial reasons. A lot of materialistic reasons. The last 8 months the staff at our dealership watched our GM, our leader, a guy some of us have known and followed for 20+ years fight the battle of his life. A man you actually briefly met sitting on a bench behind the dealership when you bought your Jeep. And yes he battled. We watched a man that was seemingly indestructible, get claimed last week by cancer. We lost a family member.
He was a tough SOB for a lot of years. A lot of tough love was doled out by him. But in his last months, I watched a man, never complain ONCE. Never ask for pity ONCE. Never stop tending his flock until 10 days before the end. He didn't have to, but he did. He was determined to leave a legacy and spread his message to all he cared about. And to leave this earth having purpose right to the end.
I have mocked the term "Brave fight with ______ disease" before. But now, I understand it. People would walk into his office, with some pedantic mundane problem, and not once did he make it about him. He listened. As frail and weak as he was. He listened, and made that person matter. Even though he knew he was mere months possibly weeks from the end. To look into the eyes of a man, who knows he's dying, and have him say. "I want you to listen to a song. Not just listen to the song, but listen to the words. That is the message I want to pass on to you, and a message I want you, to pass on and live by."
Look, I HATE country music however I love the message of this song. And I'm not going to deny the wishes..... the orders, of my boss. And I want you CC. I want all of you to listen to this song, the words, and find a piece of it that means something to you. There is a special section of it, that means everything to me. And I listen to the song daily. And I promised to pass the message to anyone that will listen. To remind me, of what is important. Of what it means to be a good person. Hopefully this will lift you up a bit.
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Awww right in the feels. May your 2017 Christmas thoughts thread be filled with positives from having been an exceptional year. And hopefully your head isn't throbbing today from the scotch rampage.
PS - I'd wish for Scarlett to appear under your tree however I've already requested that from Santa. Complete with wedding sack.
Cheers!
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Even though he says he only wanted steak and potatoes, he was aware of all the rapes.
I'll raise my own scotch to The Good Captain a little later on. The good stuff, too.
True that 2016's been a big pile of suckitude on many levels for many people, me included. Hope everyone here can get some rest for a few days and recharge. The only way out is by moving forward.
May we all get what we want, not what we deserve.
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